The kidnapped teen used his accused rapist's phone to call for help, search warrant documents reveal.
Author: Carrie Hodgin (WFMY News 2 Digital), Alma McCarty
Published: 4:26 PM EDT July 8, 2021
Updated: 6:12 AM EDT July 9, 2021
LEXINGTON, N.C. — A Lexington man is facing child sex charges after investigators said he kidnapped, drugged, and raped a teenaged boy he met on social media.
Search warrant documents revealed the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office received a call for help from the 15-year-old victim who said he was kidnapped and being held at the man’s house.
Deputies tracked the phone to a house on Free Pilgrim Church Road where they found the victim. It was in a house located through the woods behind the man’s home on Cunningham Brick Yard Road in Lexington.