A farmer in rural Minnesota was stepping into his truck Tuesday when something caught his eye in the grassy fields behind his property. Hundreds of yards away, he spotted what he thought was a deer.
It was actually a teenage girl, walking toward him wearing no shoes or pants, he told WCCO. She was sopping wet. He immediately recognized her face.
“Oh my gosh, you got to be kidding me,” the farmer said.
The 15-year-old’s face had been plastered on missing posters in the area for nearly a month. He asked if she was the girl missing from the nearby town of Alexandria, and she said yes. The girl asked him to call 911.
“I’ve been kidnapped,” the girl told him, she later recounted to television station WCCO.
Police said that for 29 days, the girl had been held captive in a mobile home by three men who restrained her with zip ties, threatened her with guns and repeatedly raped her. They treated her “like an animal,” prosecutors said in charging documents, according to Fox 9, holding her against her will in a closet and trying to kill her on multiple occasions.
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