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Dad stops career criminal from raping his 9-year-old daughter

A Brooklyn dad rushed to the rescue of his 9-year-old daughter when a careâ–Ļer criminal tried to rape her outside her hoęĶ°me, police sources said.

Robert Dra♛ch al♋legedly grabbed the girl by her head and arms in the vicinity of Ford Street and Avenue V in Sheepshead Bay Thursday just after 7 a.m., sources said.

The terðŸ§ļrified child screamed fo♉r her father when Drach, 38, exposed himself, snarled “Come with me,” and tried to drag her away, sources said.

The girl’s dad came charging out of the house, subdued the fiend ā―§and held him until cops arrivðŸŒąed.

Au🐠thorities are withholding the family’s name due to the nature of the crime and the girl’s age.

꧑Drach was taken to the 61st Precinct station house, where he yanked a lighter out of his rear end and set fire to a chair, sending officers scrambling to extingu🧜ish the flames in his holding cell, sources said.

Before cops could find it, Drach shoved á€Ģthe lighter back inside himself, sources said.

Drach was rushed ðŸĪŠto a nearby hospital for X-rays while cops waited for a warrant to conduct a body search.

When the warrant arrived, Drach forced🅚 out the lighter and attempted to swallow it, but cops grabbed it, sources said.

Drach, who cops said had amassed 69 prior arrests, was charged with attempted unęĶŽlawful imprisonment and arson.

“That♐’s not Robbie,” said a woman who identified herself as Drach’s grandmother. “He would never do ęĶ•anything like that.”