Philadelphia- An emergency telephone call seeking help for 17-year-old Ashley Burg ended up sending police to an address in the wrong town, authorities said yesterday.

But Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. said that even a correct location might have left authorities with no time to help the teenager, who had been hired as an escort by a Limerick businessman.

The call was made at 5:30 a.m. Aug. 1 by a go-go dancer who worked at Tattle Tales South in Philadelphia. By that time, Burg had been lying ill in the home of David F. Downey, 52, for more than a day.

Later that morning, Burg’s lifeless body was found in weeds along the side of a road in Northeast Philadelphia.

The official cause of death is pending the completion of toxicology tests. A preliminary drug screen showed cocaine in her system, police have said.

Castor said the emergency caller, identified as Kim Victorine, 22, of Philadelphia, provided only a street address and did not name a specific municipality.

The result was that police responded to Henry Road in Lower Providence instead of Henry Drive in Limerick, Castor said.

Her call to police – authorities yesterday could not say where Victorine was located when she made the call – was routed to state police in Harrisburg, and then transferred to a state police dispatch center in Norristown.

It was then routed to Lower Providence police, according to a Philadelphia police officer who declined to be named because he did not have authorization to speak to the press.

Burg, of Willingboro, was ill from the time she arrived at Downey’s home shortly after midnight on July 31, according to a police affidavit.

Downey, a technology consultant, had called Victorine a few hours earlier and asked her to provide him with an escort. Philadelphia detectives have determined that Downey had made regular to visits to Tattle Tales South, where Victorine danced.

In a statement to police, Downey said Burg slept for most of the next 24 hours. At that point, a worried Downey contacted Victorine and demanded someone remove the girl from his house.

At 5 a.m., a second go-go dancer, Christine Shute, 21, and a man, Mike Tees, both of Philadelphia, arrived at Downey’s house. Shute told police that Downey told her that Burg was dead.

Downey maintains Burg was alive, and that he gave them directions to a hospital and $2,000 to pay for medical treatment.

A woman walking her dog found Burg’s body, wearing only underwear, about 10 a.m. in the 4400 block of Old Red Lion Road in Northeast Philadelphia.

Prosecutors in Montgomery County are investigating the case as “a suspicious death.”

Downey didn’t have an obligation to get Burg medical attention because Pennsylvania doesn’t have a law requiring a citizen to render aid to someone who is ill, said Matthew T. Wilkov, criminal defense attorney and partner in the Lansdale law firm of Rubin, Glickman, Steinberg & Gifford.

“There is no Good Samaritan law in Pennsylvania,” Wilkov said. “The only time you have an obligation to render aid is when you have a special relationship imposed by the law, such as a parent to a child.”