US man charged after allegedly kidnapping, assaulting Bumble date for 5 days

US man charged after allegedly kidnapping, assaulting Bumble date for 5 days
A US man has been charged with aggravated kidnapping after holding a lady he met on a relationship app captive for 5 days round Christmas and bodily assaulting her earlier than she escaped, in response to charging paperwork.

The sufferer agreed to go to 21-year-old Zachary Kent Mills’ Houston condominium complicated on December 24 after assembly him over the relationship app Bumble, in response to the prison criticism.

Mills picked up the sufferer from her residence and drove her to his condominium, the place she instructed regulation enforcement he instantly tried to have intercourse along with her.

Zachary Kent Mills has been charged with aggravated kidnapping after allegedly holding his Bumble date captive for 5 days and bodily assaulting her earlier than she was capable of escape. Harris County Constable Precinct 4 (Harris County Constable Precinct 4)

When she denied his sexual advances, Mills began to bodily assault her and wouldn’t let her depart the condominium, the criticism states.

When Mills assaulted her, he would hit her utilizing a closed fist, and chunk her on the neck and face, the sufferer mentioned, and when his arms received drained from hitting her, he would seize a screwdriver and strike her with the deal with, in response to the criticism.

The sufferer instructed regulation enforcement she tried to depart, however Mills saved her contained in the condominium and continued to assault her, not offering any meals or water for 5 days, it says.

On December 29, the sufferer was lastly capable of depart the condominium when Mills left for his father’s home, the prison criticism reads.

At that time, the sufferer gathered up her garments, ran out the door, and “contacted the first people who she came in contact with and advised them of what had occurred,” the criticism mentioned.

Zachary Kent Mills has fronted courtroom. (CNN)

The sufferer was left with “severe bruising to both eyes, bite marks and cuts to both her throat and nose, and severe bruising to majority of her body,” in response to the criticism.

She was capable of determine Mills to authorities primarily based on his driver’s license photograph, and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office then charged Mills with first-degree aggravated kidnapping, the criticism says.

Mills was arrested and a bond of US$50,000 was set for him, which he has since posted.

As a part of his bond situations, Mills isn’t allowed to come back inside 200 ft of the place the sufferer “lives, works, or attends school,” and has to watch a 24-hour residence confinement curfew, courtroom data present. His subsequent scheduled courtroom look is March 3.

CNN has reached out to Mills’ legal professional, Chris Denuna, for remark.

CNN has additionally reached out to Bumble for touch upon the incident.