New Delhi, March 28 -- A 13-year-old girl was found brutally murdered, raped, and dismembered inside an abandoned home in Toledo, and her father, who had publicly pleaded for her safe return, was arrested after a police shootout, authorities said, New York Post reported.

Keimani Latigue's mutilated body was discovered in a burnt-out house on Monday, six days after she was reported missing. Police described the scene as "one of the most horrific cases" they had ever encountered.

"This is an absolute animal that came into our town," Columbus Police Lt. Brian Steel told WCMH.

The young teen, just days shy of her 14th birthday, had her hands severed and her head nearly decapitated, and was determined to have been sexually assaulted, accord...