Three youths ranging in age from 13 to 17 have been charged with killing a 10-year-old girl whose badly beaten body was found outside a vacant rental home after she didn't come home.

Dorthia Bynum, 17, and Harold Jones, 16, were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual offense. A 13-year-old boy, whose name was not released, faces the same charges.Tiffany Nicole Long's body was found early Saturday. The fifth-grader didn't return home Friday night after playing with neighborhood children.

The suspects were acquainted with Tiffany and lived in the same neighborhood, officials said.

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