A 17-year-old woman was rescued from an alleged rapist by notifying authorities utilizing an app on her smartphone and figuring out an alligator warning signal.
The sufferer met Dalton Ramsey on-line, in line with officers in Coweta County, Georgia. Ramsey reportedly provided to drive the woman to see her boyfriend in Pennsylvania final week. Nevertheless, Ramsey as an alternative stopped the automotive at BT Brown Reservoir Park and reportedly used tape to bind her arms.
‘Someplace alongside there, their experience to Pennsylvania, they pulled off in Coweta County, and he rapes her at knife level,’ the county sheriff’s investigator Toby Nix instructed FOX 5 Atlanta.
Ramsey apparently let the woman use her cellphone, which she used to contact authorities on their whereabouts.
The sufferer first instructed her boyfriend, who searched on Google for an alligator signal used to warn boaters on the reservoir. The woman confirmed she noticed the signal exterior the park, which was closed.
Then the woman reportedly used the Noonlight app as Ramsey started driving once more. She wrote ‘rape’ and described the car. The app tracked her system and alerted authorities.
Ramsey was arrested on September 6 in Habersham County and charged with kidnapping. He was extradited to Coweta County to face extra prices, together with rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, kidnapping and possessing a knife whereas commissioning a criminal offense.
The woman has been taken again to her household, officers stated.
Surveillance footage exhibits Ramsey’s car stationed exterior the park.
The Noonlight app’s web site states that its mission is ‘to guard and luxury individuals to allow them to stay freely’.
‘What started as an app targeted on serving to individuals stroll safely from level A to level B, is now a set of emergency response APIs backing a few of the smartest dwelling, well being, and life-style merchandise within the IoT market,’ the location states.
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