Abducted girl chews through restraints and her escape leads to discovery of two bodies

A person accused of abducting a 12-year-old who escaped by chewing her means out of restraints after per week in captivity at a rural cell residence was charged with killing two folks discovered lifeless contained in the residence, authorities stated Wednesday.

Already charged with first-degree kidnapping in reference to the kid’s mistreatment, José Paulino Pascual-Reyes additionally was charged with capital homicide within the deaths of the individuals who have been discovered contained in the cell residence in central Alabama, Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett stated in an interview.

Authorities have not launched information in regards to the girl, the murder victims, a trigger of dying or a doable motive, however Abbett stated further prices have been doable.

“Forensics is doing their part today and we’re waiting on results from them,” he stated.

Court data do not embody the identify of a protection lawyer who may communicate on behalf of Pascual-Reyes, 37, who was being held within the Tallapoosa County Jail.

Abducted from an undisclosed location round July 24, the girl was restrained to bedposts for a few week so she may very well be sexually abused, in accordance to a criticism filed in courtroom by authorities. She was saved in a “drugged state” with alcohol and assaulted within the head earlier than chewing her means out of the restraints, the doc stated.

With her braces broken from the chewing and marks on her wrists indicating she’d been tied up, the girl was noticed on the street outdoors the cell residence on Monday morning, authorities stated.

A driver picked up the girl and notified authorities, prompting an investigation and search that led to cops discovering two decomposing bodies contained in the cell residence the place Pascual-Reyes lived and the girl was believed to be held, Abbett stated. Other folks lived on the residence, he stated, however nobody else was there when police arrived.

The metallic underpinning of the cell residence was ripped off, in accordance to CBS affiliate WRBL, and it seems investigators have been focusing their consideration alongside the bottom beneath the cell residence.

The girl acquired medical consideration and was positioned within the custody of baby welfare officers, stated Abbett, who described her as a “hero.”

 “She is safe now, and so we want to keep her that way,” Abbett stated.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have been additionally concerned within the investigation, WRBL studies.