Woman in dog collar says she escaped captivity at Missouri home - NBC News

A pistillate was held captive, raped and assaulted for weeks successful a Missouri location until she escaped past week, wearing a metallic collar, and sought assistance from neighbors, constabulary said successful tribunal documents.

The suspect, Timothy Haslett Jr., 39, was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree rape, aggravated intersexual offense, first-degree kidnapping and second-degree assault, according to a ailment filed with the Circuit Court of Clay County, Missouri.

Police recovered the pistillate connected Friday wearing a metallic collar with a padlock, latex lingerie, and duct portion astir her mouth, the Excelsior Springs Police Department said successful a probable origin connection filed Friday.

The pistillate told constabulary that Haslett picked her up successful the opening of September and kept her successful a tiny country successful his basement, restraining her wrists and ankles with handcuffs, constabulary said successful the document. The pistillate said Haslett raped her repeatedly and whipped her portion she was held hostage, constabulary said, adding the pistillate had injuries connected her back.

The pistillate said she was capable to flight portion Haslett took his kid to school, constabulary said.

Ciara Tharp and Lisa Johnson, neighbors who spoke to NBC affiliate KSHB of Kansas City Monday, said that aft the pistillate escaped past week, she started banging connected doors and pleading for help.

The pistillate reported the allegations to authorities astatine 7:47 a.m. Friday, the Clay County Sheriff’s bureau said successful a statement. Haslett was taken into custody Friday successful Excelsior Springs, 28 miles northeast of Missouri’s astir populous city, the sheriff’s bureau said.

The location wherever neighbors raised the alarm successful Excelsior Springs, Mo.Sarah Plake/KSHB

Minutes before, Johnson saw the pistillate hunched implicit and appearing to crawl up her beforehand steps, asking for help, the presumption reported, citing an interrogation with Johnson. Johnson noticed the canine collar — it looked similar a homemade daze collar — and ligature marks astir her wrists and ankles, according to the station.

When Johnson grabbed the telephone to telephone 911, the pistillate ran away, saying the antheral who’d held her captive would termination them both, Johnson said, according to the station.

Tharp said her grandmother, who lives adjacent door, heard a pistillate knocking connected the door, saying: “‘You person to assistance me, I’ve been raped. I’ve been held captive,” KSHB reported, citing an interrogation with Tharp.

The pistillate appeared thin, anemic and hardly clothed, with ligature marks, a metallic canine collar and what appeared to beryllium duct portion hanging from her neck, arsenic if it had been pulled down from her mouth, Tharp told the station.

Tharp’s grandma took her successful and provided food, h2o and a blanket, the presumption reported. The pistillate told the grandma that she’d been held successful the basement since past period and that she escaped aft her captor near the location Friday morning, Tharp told KSHB.

The sheriff’s bureau didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment. It wasn’t instantly wide whether Haslett has a lawyer to talk connected his behalf.

Haslett was taken into custody aft authorities searched his location and the Kansas City constabulary transgression country investigators processed the scene, the sheriff’s bureau said.