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Girl, 14, Rescued by Her Text MessageSep. 18, 2006 LUGOFF, S.C. (AP) -- A man suspected of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and keeping her in an underground bunker was charged yesterday with raping her, authorities said. Kershaw County Sheriff Steve McCaskill said Vinson Filyaw, 36, had eluded police with an elaborate system of hideouts and bunkers since November 2005 when he was charged with criminal sexual conduct on a 12-year-old girl. He surrendered yesterday morning to police as he walked along Interstate 20 near Columbia, about eight kilometers from where the teenager was found. Police say Filyaw was posing as a police officer when he abducted her Sept. 6 as she walked home from a school bus stop. Investigators arrested Filyaw about 24 hours after rescuing the girl, who sent a text message to her mother on Filyaw's phone while he was a sleep Wednesday, McCaskill said. The sheriff said Filyaw woke up and the girl still had the phone, but she told him she was simply playing with it. Investigators used cell towers to determine a general location of the phone and deputies began searching for Filyaw on Friday night. McCaskill said the girl cried out as searchers approached the bunker. Police say they still had not interviewed the girl, who was found Saturday about 1.5 kilometers from her home, hidden in a booby-trapped, 4.5-metre-deep hole carved out of the side of a hill and covered with plywood. The bunker had a hand-dug privy with toilet paper, a camp stove and shelves made with cut branches and canvas. |
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