A 17-year-old lady 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 response to officers in Coweta County, Georgia. Ramsey reportedly supplied to drive the lady to see her boyfriend in Pennsylvania final week. Nonetheless, Ramsey as an alternative stopped the automobile at BT Brown Reservoir Park and reportedly used tape to bind her arms.
‘Someplace alongside there, their journey to Pennsylvania, they pulled off in Coweta County, and he rapes her at knife level,’ the county sheriff’s investigator Toby Nix advised FOX 5 Atlanta.
Ramsey apparently let the lady use her cellphone, which she used to contact authorities on their whereabouts.
The sufferer first advised her boyfriend, who searched on Google for an alligator signal used to warn boaters on the reservoir. The lady confirmed she noticed the signal outdoors the park, which was closed.
Then the lady reportedly used the Noonlight app as Ramsey started driving once more. She wrote ‘rape’ and described the automobile. 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 fees, together with rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, kidnapping and possessing a knife whereas commissioning a criminal offense.
The lady has been taken again to her household, officers stated.
Surveillance footage exhibits Ramsey’s automobile stationed outdoors the park.
The Noonlight app’s web site states that its mission is ‘to guard and luxury folks to allow them to stay freely’.
‘What started as an app centered on serving to folks stroll safely from level A to level B, is now a set of emergency response APIs backing a number of the smartest house, well being, and way of life merchandise within the IoT market,’ the location states.
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