8-year-old girl was buried alive

An 8-year-old girl who was raped and buried alive told a friend she remembers her attacker towering over her before she passed out, then awoke seven hours later beneath a pile of rocks and concrete blocks when she heard the voices of rescuers.

The girl, who had been staying overnight at her godmother's house, was reported missing early Sunday. She was hospitalized in good condition Monday and a teenage boy who also had been staying at the home was arrested. Authorities said he confessed.

The girl was found Sunday morning when police Sgt. Mike Hall climbed into a 25-foot long trash bin, opened the lid to a 30-gallon recycling container and saw part of the girl's hand and foot peeking out from under heavy &to=http:// english.pravda.ru/cis/2001/12/11/23407.html ' target=_blank>concrete slabs, said police Sgt. Dan Boland, tells the Guardian Unlimited.

The girl survived seven hours in the recycling bin, buried under a pile of rocks. She's in good condition at a hospital She disappeared from her home in a nighttime abduction. She had been dumped in the garbage trailer at a shuttered landfill a quarter mile from the home of her godmother and baby sitter.