A teenager from North Carolina 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 several American media reports, citing police documents, the 16-year-old girl living in Fayetteville had 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 young man. One thing led to another, the man coaxed the young woman and finally went to pick her up from her home to bring her to his home.
The teen told authorities that the man admitted to lying about her age when he picked her up, but only found out he was 34 when he arrived at his home, where he introduced her to his family. , not without threatening her with reprisals if she did not pretend to be 18 years old.
Found thanks to her kidnapper’s mother
Over the next few weeks, the teenager was drugged by the man, who locked her under a trap door hidden by a rug 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 had raped his victim at least ten times and admitted to having given her crack.
It was ultimately the mother of the kidnapper who saved the teenager by calling the police to report that her son had argued with his “girlfriend”.
All these allegations by the authorities remain to be proven in court. In the meantime, he remains in the Pulaski County Jail.
