‘It’s Pretty Scary…the New Dating World’: Houston Woman Allegedly Held Captive, Raped, Starved, Beaten with Screwdriver By Man She Met on App
A Texas man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a woman he met on a dating app and torturing her for several days around the 2022 Christmas holiday.
The woman said not only was she sexually assaulted, but the 21-year-old also beat her and withheld both food and water from the victim.
On Thursday, Dec. 29, deputies with the Harris County Constable’s Office Precinct 4 said a female patient at the Houston Methodist Spring Emergency Care Center, known only by the initials “J.W.” said she was a victim of a terrible assault that lasted over five days, starting on Christmas Eve, according to Law & Crime.
Court documents show Zachary Kent Mills met the woman on the Bumble dating app and wooed her into an online “romantic relationship.”
J.W. met Mills at his apartment and “immediately upon entering” he “attempted to start to have sexual intercourse” with her.
She rejected his advances, invoking his fury, an affidavit stated.
“When [J.W.] denied the defendant’s sexual advances, he immediately began to physically assault her and would not let her leave the residence,” the report stated, adding, “[J.W.] advised when he assaulted her, he would strike her using closed fist. Defendant would also bit her on the neck and face. [J.W.] stated when the defendant’s hands got tired from hitting her, he would grab a screwdriver and would strike her with the handle of the screwdriver causing serious bodily injury.”
The woman said she tried to escape a few times, but each time her effort was thwarted by Mills, who continued to abuse her. She was eventually able to escape after Mill’s left the apartment to go visit his father’s home.
According to the affidavit, “At that point [J.W.] gathered up her clothes and ran out the door and contacted the first people who she came in contact with and advised them of what had occurred.”
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