A seventeen-year-old Mexican girl who had been kidnapped for human trafficking managed to escape from the house in which she was held captive in California thanks to communicated via text messages to 911 and sent precise references about its location.
The teenager, who only speaks Spanish, experienced an ordeal after being captured by a 31-year-old Mexican citizen, who is also accused of raping her. Locked in a Californian state house, The woman managed to communicate with the authorities, who received the messages around 3 AM on May 9..
After translating the messages, the authorities asked for more information and, although they did not know exactly where he was, the young woman managed to transmit landmarks and other “identifiable information” from what he could observe from inside the house, according to the sheriff’s office cited by The New York Post.
With the information received, The agents began to search the area while the person in charge of communicating with the young woman continued investigating. about. “After about twenty minutes of searching in the Casitas Springs area, officers found the victim,” the police office said. After locating the victim, officers located and arrested the suspect, Gerardo Cruz.
The agents searched the area based on the information provided by the young woman.
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The text messages that saved the woman kidnapped in the United States
“In this incident also integrated translation technology was used, since the person who fulfilled the order only spoke English and the victim only spoke and wrote in Spanish. “The person who took the call was able to quickly interpret and send a text message with a response in English, which was quickly retranslated into Spanish for the victim,” they explained.
The young woman rescued by the authorities received special treatment and stayed at the Ventura County Child and Family Services facility, before reuniting with his family. For his part, Cruz was accused by the courts of human trafficking, rape, lewd acts against a minor, attraction and sexual penetration with force.
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