A quick thinking rape victim who was forced to call her boyfriend by a rapist, so that the boyfriend could hear her groaning in the act called 911 instead, the Hapeville Police said.
Police said the quick thinking by the victim helped them catch her attacker in the act.
The attack happened early Monday in the back of an adult entertainment store.
According to the officers, the attacker, Robert Giles, 27, asked the victim to call her boyfriend so he could hear the assault, WTB-TVreported.
Instead of calling her boyfriend, she called 911. Police say the savvy 911 operator also kept his wits about him.
"It was quick thinking on his behalf. In fact, (it) might have saved her life," Clayton County police Maj. Joe Woodall said.
Officers said Giles kidnapped the victim from Hapeville and brought her to the closed Starship Novelties and Gifts store on Tara Boulevard around 4am Monday, intending to rape her. That’s when he allegedly asked her to call her boyfriend so he could listen to the assault.
The victim called 911 and told her attacker it was her boyfriend.
Interestingly, the 911 operator played along.
"She explained to him what the perpetrator had told her that he wanted him to listen while she was being raped," Woodall said.
The operator tried to talk the attacker out of the assault and sent policemen. They arrived on time to save the victim and arrested Giles in the act.
"They were able to stop it right then and there and snatched him right from the car," Woodall said.
Giles now faces rape, false imprisonment and obstruction charges.
Reports show that rape and other sexual assaults occur frequently in industrialised countries, and are becoming more common throughout the world.
A United Nations statistical report compiled from government sources showed that more than 250,000 cases of rape or attempted rape were recorded by police annually. The reported data covered 65 countries.
The attitude of the police in many countries often discourages victims from reporting rape. One study in Turkey in 1999 found that 33 per cent of police officers agreed with the assertion that "some women deserve rape" and 66 per cent agreed that "the physical appearance and behaviors of women tempt men to rape
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