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A 13 year old girl who disappeared louisiana A few days later it was found in a box covered with a sheet in the basement of a pittsburgh Home – Ending a multi-state search that started with one snapchat messages and allegations of kidnapping, trafficking and sexual assault were made.
U.S. Marshals say a girl who went missing from East Baton Rouge Parish in October was lured to several states before being found, leading to at least two arrests. WAFB Informed.
Key-Shawn Crumity, 26, was arrested Thursday at her Davis Avenue home after SWAT officers executed a search warrant and found the girl hiding in the basement.
The second man, Ronald Smith, 62, of New Orleans, was arrested in Columbus, Georgia, on charges of simple kidnapping and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.
The weeklong investigation began with a report of the girl, who has not been named, missing in Louisiana.
According to police, the girl met Crumity on Snapchat. According to the criminal complaint obtained, he allegedly told her she had to “get him adopted by a trusted adult.” CBS NewsSmith and another man allegedly brought the girl from Baton Rouge to Georgia and then put her on a Greyhound bus to Pittsburgh.
At a bus station in Washington, DC, he met a woman who asked if he needed help. The girl agreed and texted Crumity, telling him she was bringing a friend to Pittsburgh.
They arrived in Pittsburgh and, police say, the girl, the woman and Crumity all slept in the same bed in the basement of the Davis Avenue home.
The complaint alleges that Crumity provided the girl with food and alcohol and sexually assaulted her “at least once or twice a day” during the week she was there.
She told investigators that Crumity admitted that “he knew he was a fugitive” and “he was going to get in trouble.”
The FBI obtained a search warrant Thursday and the home was raided by a police SWAT team after the Pittsburgh Police Special Victims Unit received a report from the U.S. Marshals Service about a missing teen from Louisiana.
The girl later told authorities that being in the hospital after the rescue “felt the safest she had ever felt,” according to the complaint.
“I am very proud of our LBI agents for helping locate this child,” said Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill. “She was groomed, exploited, and then sexually exploited by strangers she met online. This is just one example of the dangers of social media and human trafficking.”
Crumity faces a long list of charges, including trafficking in persons, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault and selling or furnishing alcohol to a minor. He is being held in the Allegheny County Jail without bond.
Authorities say more arrests and additional charges are expected as the investigation continues.