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Seriously WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE??!!!?!!
Police: Couple held runaway teen captive
By JACQUES BILLEAUD
Associated Press Writer
PHOENIX (AP) -- A couple held a runaway teen captive in a hollow bed
frame
for weeks and forced her to have sex for money with people they found
on the
Internet, police said.
The 15-year-old girl managed to call family members for help while
18-year-old Matthew Gray and 19-year-old Janelle Butler were sleeping
Monday
night, authorities said. The two were arrested Tuesday.
The girl ran away from her El Mirage home in September and met the
couple
through a friend about three hours after she disappeared, police Sgt.
Andy
Hill said. They took her to a park, bound her and had her gang raped
for
hours, police said.
At a west Phoenix apartment, they imprisoned her in a dog kennel for
about a
week and threatened her with a gun, Hill said. They sold her for sex
dozens
of times on the Internet, he said, and forced her to hide in a
hollowed-out
bed frame covered with plywood.
"She was tortured. She had a gun pointed to her head. She was told that
if
she tried to escape or said anything she would be killed, her family
would
be killed," he said.
On Monday evening while Gray and Butler were sleeping, the girl called
her
family and told them she was being held. She knew the general area but
couldn't say exactly what address or apartment she was in, Hill said.
Investigators said they had received tips about a runaway in the
complex
during the past several weeks, but could not find the girl. A neighbor,
Lorraine Montoya, said the couple approached her and asked if she would
hide
the runaway weeks ago. She refused.
"When they told me she was a runaway, I called the cops right away,"
said
Montoya.
Police repeatedly questioned Gray and Butler, until Butler broke down
and
told investigators she was in the bed frame, police said. The girl
underwent
a medical exam and was later released to her parents.
Gray was booked on hundreds of counts, including sexual assault,
kidnapping
and child prostitution. Butler was booked on kidnapping, child
prostitution
and other charges. Both were being held without bond.
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