Taxi driver in China arrested for kidnapping teenage girl and holding her as sex slave
- The suspect, of Fenghuang county in Hunan province, is accused of holding a 16-year-old hostage for 24 days
A man in his 50s has been arrested in central Hunan province in China for kidnapping a teenage girl, then keeping her as a sex slave in a home-made dungeon for 24 days.
In a statement, prosecutors released gruesome details of how the unidentified 16-year-old victim was abducted and imprisoned before being freed by police earlier this month.
The kidnapping suspect, a black-taxi driver surnamed Long of Shanjiang township in Fenghuang county, has been arrested and is waiting for police to provide supplemental evidence to be formally charged, according to a statement from the Fenghuang County People’s Procuratorate on its verified Wechat account on Monday. The post has since been taken down.
In their statement, prosecutors described the suspect as having “vicious motive, despicable means and odious influence”.
According to the statement, Long has never married and had become “distorted and perverted in mind” after watching pornography.
He “formed a motive of imprisoning and raping others” and bought iron loops, chains, electronic batons, masks and wigs, biding his time to commit the crime, the statement said.
