HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Three individuals are going through expenses after a north Harris County man says he was kidnapped at gunpoint and compelled to have intercourse by a lady who recognized herself as “Cookie.”
The sufferer, who requested to not be recognized, mentioned he was held for nearly per week earlier than he managed to flee.
“It was actually ghetto,” he mentioned. “It was scary.”
The ordeal started Oct. 18, in keeping with the Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace, when the sufferer was approached by Esmeralda Pena, who he describes as a good friend.
“She mentioned that she had a job for me, like, she was gonna assist me make some cash ‘trigger I did not have a job,” he informed Eyewitness Information.
He mentioned Pena took him to the Regency Inn on Cypress Station close to FM 1960.
It is there he met the girl he says calls herself “Cookie,” though deputies say her authorized identify is Herbinique Forest.
He mentioned Forest signed him up for an escort web site and informed him he’d must have intercourse with males for cash. Court docket paperwork say she assaulted him when he refused.
“It was quite a lot of crackheads, like quite a lot of them,” he mentioned. “Like quite a lot of sketchy homeless individuals.”
The following day, he mentioned he noticed a chance to flee and returned to his condominium.
4 hours later, investigators say a doorbell digital camera reveals Pena and Forest on the sufferer’s door with an armed man, later recognized as Nickson Simmons.
Investigators say the video reveals the trio forcing the sufferer right into a automotive at gunpoint.
“Cookie began beating me, and she or he was like, ‘Don’t ever depart once more.’ Like, if I ever depart, like, she’ll blow my brains out,” the sufferer mentioned.
For the subsequent six days, he mentioned he was overwhelmed, plied with medication, and compelled to solicit males in a Ross car parking zone. He mentioned he finally solely slept with one man.
“I knew that if I made them cash, they’d maintain making me work for them, they’d maintain me round. So I’d simply attempt to not sleep with anyone,” he mentioned.
Even so, he mentioned the expertise was draining and that at one level, he wished his captors would make good on their threats.
“Like a pair days in, I type of wished her to kill me. Like, I informed her to kill me, like, simply get it over with,” he mentioned.
In the long run, he mentioned it was his aunt who saved him.
Regardless of close to fixed surveillance, he mentioned he lastly managed to textual content her Oct. 24 on a telephone he’d hidden from his abductors and that she picked him up from the Ross car parking zone.
All three suspects are charged with aggravated kidnapping and stay within the Harris County Jail. The prison investigation is ongoing.
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