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A woman who endured 7 days of horrific torture at the hands of her ex-husband and his girlfriend was allegedly turned away by shopkeepers she sought help from because she was not wearing a mask.
The victim, 37 years old, was kidnapped by her ex-husband on New Years Eve. Justin Wilson, 31, of Fulton County, New York had been out on bail after being charged with aggravated domestic violence in one county, and violating a no-contact order with a victim in another.
According to the Times Union, court documents detailing the woman’s ordeal say that on December 31, Wilson forced the woman at gunpoint from a home on West Fulton Street in Gloversville, New York and abducted her. Wilson drove the victim to his trailer home where he subjected her to brutal torture for almost a week.
The victim said Wilson made her sleep with a pit bull in a filthy room, used a baseball bat to sodomize her, choked her until she lost consciousness, sexually assaulted her, and amputated her right pinky finger before using a flame to cauterize the wound.
“Throughout the entire time I was with Justin, he was threatening to kill me and told me if I didn’t kill myself, he would kill me,” the victim told Police investigators.
At one point, Wilson took the victim to another location where he continued his abuse. He attempted to drown her in urine-filled toilet and hot tub, and whipped her with a charging cable. Upon being taken back to the trailer, the victim had a narrow window in which she managed to escape from the premises.
But her bravery was hardly rewarded with reprieve.
The victim, who was “beaten to a pulp,” sought help at Bowman’s Market, a family-run grocery store, but was allegedly told to leave because she was not wearing a mask. Shop owners have since denied the victim’s claim, clarifying that they only wanted her to wait outside while they called police. But the victim still left, and made it to a taxi stand where she was driven to her grandfather’s home. He took her to Nathan Littauer Hospital and called police.
Justin Wilson and his female partner Nicole Elmore were taken into custody after a 2-hour standoff with police on January 6, and both have been charged with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree assault with the intent to disfigure, dismember or disable and first-degree aggravated sexual abuse.
Since being charged, Elmore has revealed that Wilson allegedly sexually abused her 13-year-old daughter, who she had left in his care while she was in hospital with pneumonia.
Both are being held without bail pending a February 7 court date.
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