The Great Smoky Mountain Journal

Staff, Wire Reports

Posted: Monday, December 31, 2018 04:29 PM

Missing 16-Year Old New Jersey Girl Found In MA Basement Reportedly Raped Several Times, Hair Shaved Off And Burned With Cigarettes

A 16-year-old missing New Jersey girl who was found in the basement of a Massachusetts home told police she was held against her will, raped several times, had her hair shaved off and burned with a cigarette, according to testimony at a Wednesday hearing.

Auburn police Officer George Vranos said the teenage girl, believed to be a runaway, was found on Dec. 27 inside a room that he described as a “torture chamber.”

He said she was crying when they discovered her and when police asked her to remove a knit hat she was wearing. After seeing a bag full of hair near her, they saw her head had been shaved.

“She was looking at the floor whimpering,” Vranos testified during a dangerousness hearing at Worcester Central District Court, according to Mass Live.

“Her hair was in a Christmas bag," Auburn Detective Eric Dyson said, according to the Boston Herald.

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Around the teen, officers also found cigarettes, duct tape with hair, an iron and a pot of water.