Trapped: 'Teen Held Captive For Two Years'

**Pedro Silva** Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:51 am

My friends, this was taken from Sky News:

http://news.sky.com/story/976525/trapped-teen-held-captive-for-two-years

same story in Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/23/teen-girl-escapes-after-illinois-man-allegedly-held-her-captive-more-than-two/?test=latestnews

**bb1** Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:57 am

http://news.sky.com/story/976525/trapped-teen-held-captive-for-two-years

Trapped: 'Teen Held Captive For Two Years'
A 24-year-old man and his mother are arrested after a teenager escapes following two years of alleged abuse while held captive.

A teenage girl has escaped after being held prisoner in a house in Illinois for two years, police have said.

The girl said she had been regularly beaten and sexually assaulted by her captor and that she had given birth to a baby boy.

She said she left the baby in the house when she had her chance to get out earlier this week.

After telling her story to police, a 20-member team of Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) officers wearing body armour and with weapons drawn raided the home and arrested a 24-year-old man and his mother.

Pictures show one of the officers carrying a young child in his arms from the house and into a waiting ambulance.

Police in Washington Park, a village next to East St Louis, say there is evidence to suggest the man's mother, who also lived in the house, had assisted in the crime.

The woman was also arrested and led away in handcuffs. Police believe she may have coerced the teenager to give a false name to hospital staff when she gave birth.

The alleged victim's true identity has not been released but an unnamed teenage girl was reported missing in April 2010 when she was 15-years-old.

According to reports she would regularly escape from the house but the man would always chase after her and force her back at gunpoint.

Neighbours told local television station News 4 that there appeared to be nothing untoward about the mother and her son.

"They seemed like a pleasant family to me," said neighbour Connie Hunt. "She would talk to me, I would talk to her."

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Did the neighbours not think there was something odd about her being chased back into the house at gunpoint?

Ah well, she is free now and the child is safe.

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