WASHINGTON — Two adolescent boys were charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in the backyard of her Woodbridge, Va. home the day before Thanksgiving, according to a news release from the Prince William County Police Department.

Special Victims Unit detectives responded to a home around 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 27 after they say two boys, ages 12 and 13, held the 11-year-old down while sexually assaulting her.

The boys were both charged with forcible sodomy and abduction with intent to defile and are being held at a Juvenile Detention Center.

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