Abducted Teen Escapes After 2 Yrs. of Being Held Hostage

In April 2010, a 15 year-old teenage girl, was reported missing from St. Louis. This week the girl told police that she had been held captive at a home in an Illinois village and had been subjected to continuous beatings and sexual assaults almost on a daily basis. A SWAT team wearing full body armor and tactical gear raided the home Thursday afternoon in Illinois’ Washington Park, taking into custody a 24-year-old man and his mother, while also recovering the teen’s young child, who the girl said was the result of rape by her captor. The girl said she tried to escape numerous times but that her captor chased her down each time and forced her back to the home at gunpoint.