Thursday afternoon a young teenager who was reportedly missing for two years told Illinois police that she escaped her captor, who had held her hostage and repeatedly sexually assaulted her.
The SWAT team raided the house in a village next to East St. Louis called Washington Park and arrested the man and his mother, who was said to be an accomplice in the crime. The man, who remains unnamed, is 24 years old.
Police also discovered a child, which the young victim says resulted from one of the rapes perpetrated on her by the suspect.
In April of 2010, a 15 year-old girl was listed as missing by the police in St.Louis, Mo., Police also listed the possibility of her disappearance to be runaway juvenile, but the teenager who has been identified as the missing person in question confesses that she was held captive and repeatedly beaten and sexually assaulted every day. She tried to escape many times, but failed all attempts in the past.
As a result of one the rapes, she became pregnant and her captor and his mother forced her to use a fake name when in the hospital according to the victim.
Since no official charges have yet been made, police have not disclosed the identity of the victim or the alleged captor and his mother.
According to the Associated Press, a neighbor says that she had seen the victim on numerous occasions, but noticed anything suspicious. "I used to see her come out of the house, back and forth," Smith said. "I didn't think she was being held hostage in the house," said Lakeitha Smith to AP reporters.
