A 15-year-old woman who has been lacking for a 12 months has been discovered almost 500 miles from house — with a 32-year-old man now charged with allegedly kidnapping and raping her, police mentioned.
The unidentified teenager was listed as a runaway when she vanished from her house in Studying, Pennsylvania, final June, WRAL reported.
She was discovered Monday after a tip that she was in Excessive Level, North Carolina, on the house of 32-year-old Joseph A. Rossomando, in accordance with police.
Rossomando was discovered with youngster sexual abuse materials after cops searched his house and seized his digital gadgets, cops mentioned.
Rossomando was charged with seven counts of statutory intercourse offense with a baby lower than 15 and 7 counts of statutory rape of a kid lower than 15.
He was additionally hit with felony expenses for trafficking a baby sufferer, sexual servitude of a kid sufferer, sexual exploitation of a minor, statutory rape and first-degree kidnapping.
Rossomando is being held on the Guilford County Jail with no bond, police mentioned.
Excessive Level police confirmed that the woman is protected and receiving assist companies, ABC 45 reported.
Neighbors have been shocked on the horrific allegations — particularly provided that the world is house to cops.
“It’s loopy to search out out that our neighbor … Our neighbor is doing that sort of stuff,” one neighbor informed the ABC 45.
“We even have cops that stay within the neighborhood, fairly a couple of really that I might consider. However positively not a norm to see cops coming to homes right here,” one other native mentioned.
The Submit has reached out to the Excessive Level Police Division for extra info.
