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The child's family reported her missing four hours after Paul Rater, 53, left his home Sunday night in the town of Buckeye.
Authorities launched a search operation and relatives ended up finding the girl in a desert area with a loaded pistol, said a statement from the sheriff's office in Maricopa County.
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Rater acknowledged having abandoned the girl so he could go off for drinks and a hamburger.
Rater was jailed Monday on charges of abusing and abandoning a child.
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