A 17-year-old girl who was reported missing two years ago escaped from a home in Washington Park, Illinois this week, according to news reports. The girl who is now 17 told police she was held against her will, beaten and repeatedly raped for 2 years by a man and his mother. The girl told police she gave birth to her captor’s child (who is seen being carried out of the home by members of a SWAT team).
According to reports, the girl, who was 15 when she vanished in April 2010, escaped from the home on Thursday and ran next door to a Mobil gas station, where she begged for help.
A SWAT team arrived and arrested a 24-year-old man and his mother without incident. A toddler and a 16-year-old boy, still wearing his school uniform, were also removed from the home around 5:30 p.m.
Police say the man’s mother assisted in the crimes against the teenage girl.
The girl told police she attempted to flee the home several times over the last 2 years, but the man chased her down and forced her back inside the house at gunpoint. The girl said the man and his mother, both unidentified, forced her to give a false name when she gave birth to the man’s son over a year ago.
But a next-door neighbor disputes the girl’s tales of kidnapping and forced imprisonment.
Neighbor Lakeitha Smith told local TV news stations that she saw the girl outside the home on numerous occasions. “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.”
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