A 15-year-old lady who has been lacking for a yr has been discovered almost 500 miles from residence — with a 32-year-old man now charged with allegedly kidnapping and raping her, police stated.
The unidentified teenager was listed as a runaway when she vanished from her residence in Studying, Pennsylvania, final June, WRAL reported.
She was discovered Monday after a tip that she was in Excessive Level, North Carolina, on the residence of 32-year-old Joseph A. Rossomando, in line with police.
Rossomando was discovered with baby sexual abuse materials after cops searched his residence and seized his digital gadgets, cops stated.
Rossomando was charged with seven counts of statutory intercourse offense with a toddler lower than 15 and 7 counts of statutory rape of a kid lower than 15.
He was additionally hit with felony costs for trafficking a a toddler sufferer, sexual servitude of a kid sufferer, sexual exploitation of a minor, statutory rape and first diploma kidnapping.
Rossomando is being held on the Guilford County Jail with no bond, police stated.
Excessive Level police confirmed that the lady is secure and receiving help providers, ABC 45 reported.
Neighbors had been shocked on the horrific allegations — particularly on condition that the realm is residence to cops.
“It’s loopy to seek out out that our neighbor… Our neighbor is doing that kind of stuff,” one neighbor instructed the ABC 45.
“We even have cops that reside within the neighborhood, fairly just a few really that I might consider. However undoubtedly not a norm to see cops coming to homes right here,” one other native stated.
The Put up has reached out to the Excessive Level Police Division for extra info.
