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Teen Escapes After Over Two Years in Captivity in IL

She wasn’t just missing, she was a prisoner and nobody knew it, for more than two years. A Missouri teenager has escaped her kidnapper in Illinois.

FOX News Radio’s Jennifer Keiper reports:

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The girl, who’s now 17, says she was beaten and raped almost every day, and had a baby. She managed to escape yesterday and police officers later pulled the toddler out of the home. A prosecutor calling the living conditions “deplorable”.

Neighbor Lakeitha Smith says she saw the girl coming in and out of the house every so often…

(Smith) “But I didn’t, like, know any strange activity was going on like that because you never think that that would be right next door to your house.”

A 24-year-old man who lives in the home, and his mother, are in custody.

Jennifer Keiper, FOX News Radio.

One Comment

  1. Sharen

    August 24, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    No one wants to get involved. We are all trained to look the other way and thats just wrong. That is why this can happen so easily. They saw the girl and felt there was something wrong, and did nothing about it. Go over and act neighborly. She could have died.