A woman was held captive, raped and assaulted for weeks in a Missouri home until she escaped last week, wearing a metal collar, and sought help from neighbors, police said in court documents.
A suspect, Timothy Haslett Jr., 39, was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree rape, aggravated sexual offense, first-degree kidnapping and second-degree assault, according to a complaint filed in Clay County Circuit Court.
The woman told police that Haslett picked her up in the beginning of September and kept her in a small room in his basement, restraining her wrists and ankles with handcuffs, police said in the document. The woman said Haslett raped her repeatedly and whipped her while she was held hostage, police said, adding that the woman had injuries on her back.
When Johnson grabbed the phone to call 911, the woman ran away, saying the man who’d held her captive would kill them both, Johnson said, according to the station.Tharp said in an interview with KSHB that her grandmother, who lives next door, heard a woman knocking on the door, saying, “‘You have to help me, I’ve been raped. I’ve been held captive,” the station reported.
Tharp’s grandmother took her in and provided food, water and a blanket, the station reported. The woman told the grandmother that she’d been held in the basement since last month and that she escaped after her captor left the house Friday morning, Tharp told KSHB.
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