A New Yorker kidnapped after an alleged sexual assault managed to send a call for help through an online meal ordering app and was freed by police, US media reported.
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The 24-year-old woman had her phone confiscated by her alleged 32-year-old attacker, local channel WABC said, citing authorities.
She was only able to get it back by asking him to be able to order a dish through the Grubhub delivery app.
Around five a.m. Sunday, she ordered a burger and sandwich from a nearby establishment, the Chipper Truck Café.
And in her instructions, the New Yorker slipped a few words: “
Please call the police (…).
Do it discreetly please
”.
She also asked for officers to show up during the delivery, according to a copy of the receipt obtained by WABC.
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Restaurant workers “
saw the note in the order and called my husband
,” restaurant co-owner Alice Bermejo told the outlet.
"
They asked
'
What do we do?
”
and he replied
“
Call the police
”.
This is how the police went to the address indicated, in a district of the Bronx, and arrested the man whom the New Yorker knew via a dating application according to CNN.
He is now charged with rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse, according to a police document cited by the same channel.
The suspect is also implicated, adds CNN, in another sexual assault four days earlier, and is also being prosecuted in this context.