LONDON, Kentucky, USA (AP) – A teenager held captive by a 61-year-old man was rescued on an interstate in Kentucky after a driver saw her waving a distress signal with her hand that became popular on TikTok, authorities reported.
The parents of the 16-year-old reported that their daughter disappeared last week in Asheville, North Carolina. Two days later, thanks to his signal and alert driver, cops in Kentucky stopped the car and arrested James Herbert Brick of Cherokee, North Carolina, on charges of unlawful deprivation of liberty and possession of material depicting a sexual act with a minor, said Agent Gilbert Acciardo.
The young woman and the man already knew each other and initially she willingly left with him, but at some point she was afraid of him, said Acciardo, a spokesman for the Laurel County Police, in statements published by The Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper. .
The man had taken her to Ohio to visit relatives, but took her after they found out she had been reported missing, according to a police statement.
The other driver called 911 from Interstate 75 in Laurel County, Kentucky, Thursday to report a girl in a silver Toyota car was making hand signals for help for domestic violence.
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The signal consists of raising your hand, showing the palm with the thumb extended, then putting the thumb in the palm and lowering the fingers over it, as if to catch the thumb.
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