A North Carolina teenager was beaten, repeatedly raped and held under a trap door for weeks by a Kentucky man who initially lured her by posing as a 19-year-old.
According to reports from several American media, citing police documents, the 16-year-old girl living in Fayetteville has been missing since December 6.
The accused, Zackary Jones, 34, allegedly started an online conversation with the teenager by posing as a 19-year-old. One thing led to another, the man persuaded the young woman and finally went to pick her up at home to take her to her house.
The teenager told authorities that the man admitted to lying about his age when he picked her up, but only discovered he was 34 when he arrived at his home, where he introduced her to his family, not without threatening her with retaliation if she refused. she wasn’t pretending to be 18.
Found thanks to the mother of her kidnapper
In the following weeks, the teenager was drugged by the man, who locked her under a trap door hidden by a carpet in the bedroom. During this hellish period, the young woman was beaten, raped and threatened with death, among other things.
Zackary Jones also admitted to investigators that he raped his victim at least ten times and gave her crack cocaine.
In the end it was the kidnapper’s mother who saved the teenager by calling the police to report that her son had argued with his “girlfriend”.
All these accusations by the authorities must be proven in court. In the meantime he is in the Pulaski County Jail.
2023-12-30 00:02:47
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