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Kidnapped Minnesota teen girl swims across lake to flee abductors
FoxNews.com ^ | 7-Sept-2017 | FoxNews

Posted on 09/07/2017 12:25:15 PM PDT by topher

Published September 07, 2017 Fox News

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Teen girl swims across lake to escape 'nightmare' kidnapping

A Minnesota teen who was kidnapped for almost a month swam across a lake Tuesday to escape her abductors, officials said.

The teenager, from Alexandria, Minn., made it safely across the lake before running onto a property where she received help, CBS Minnesota reported.

Authorities said the young girl was kidnapped on Aug. 8 by Thomas Barker, 32, who urged the teen to get into his car and drove her to a residence in Carlos. Barker, his roommate and another friend physically and sexually assaulted the teenager, officials said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: kidnapping; minnesota
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To: Pontiac; DIRTYSECRET

I'm available, but I charge double for using both horns.

21 posted on 09/07/2017 12:51:06 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Vaquero

All have pig snouts.


22 posted on 09/07/2017 12:51:33 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Why punish farm animals?


23 posted on 09/07/2017 12:52:52 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

ADRENALINE IS A POWERFUL DRUG AND MOTIVATOR, THEN ADD IN FEAR FOR A TURBO BOOST.


24 posted on 09/07/2017 12:54:05 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: Mears

“Hang the animals.”
___

Yep. After castrating them.


25 posted on 09/07/2017 12:56:36 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Living in MN lake country and at this time of year she could do it, probably having been brought up with lots of swimming lessons since she was 4 or 5 years old. By the time I was 16 I’d received my Red Cross Swimmer rating and could have done it if under the duress she was.


26 posted on 09/07/2017 12:58:34 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: topher

I see there pictures, and the first two words I think of are;
“Foul odors”. She was captive for a month? Incredible.
The torture she and her family must have gone through.


27 posted on 09/07/2017 12:59:07 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DoughtyOne

That tidbit alone should convince you that the evil MSM do not care what happens to victims of crimes. They have been advocating for lighter sentences, no death penalties, and get out of jail free cards for decades.

They are evil to the core without remorse.


28 posted on 09/07/2017 1:04:55 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: Mears

Definitely want that but right now I’m more concerned about what help this girl is going to need after such a nightmare. How do you move on from that?


29 posted on 09/07/2017 1:04:59 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Lots of lakes are less than a half mile across at some points. It is early September. The water has not had a chance to cool much from the high temperatures of late summer.

She was likely very tired, but swimmers with decent technique can swim for miles.

Thompson lake, the lake the girl swam across, is about a mile long and about 1/4 mile across:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hoffman,+MN+56339/@45.905957,-95.806274,3264m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x52ca372991878ed1:0xe260beebffd24bc6!8m2!3d45.8325073!4d-95.7945339?hl=en


30 posted on 09/07/2017 1:05:06 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: topher

More on this>>>

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/missing-minnesota-teen-jasmine-block-found-safe-three-arrested-n799091


31 posted on 09/07/2017 1:08:44 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They need to be hanged by the neck until dead.
 
32 posted on 09/07/2017 1:16:41 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When the guy on the left watches “Gilligans Island” he has to have the plot explained to him.


33 posted on 09/07/2017 1:23:20 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: topher

We really need to bring back public hangings.


34 posted on 09/07/2017 1:23:25 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: knarf

I see six bad choices made by a total of three men and three women that led to the creation of these three who look like they are missing several chromosomes each.


35 posted on 09/07/2017 1:25:29 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: henkster

Hell, if you gave each of them a letter, all three of their brains combined couldn’t get the spelling right.


36 posted on 09/07/2017 1:37:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Billthedrill

The great Cthulhu wouldn’t have them!


37 posted on 09/07/2017 1:39:57 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Red Badger
After they are emasculated..................with a dull rusty knife..................

No need to go to the trouble of finding a dull rusty knife if a jagged tin can lid is laying around.


38 posted on 09/07/2017 1:47:27 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: topher

local paper

Update: Teen girl swam to escape captors; three men arrested
http://www.echopress.com/news/4323615-update-teen-girl-swam-escape-captors-three-men-arrested

— Video conference and details on suspects

Mom: Two suspects were ‘best friends’

http://www.echopress.com/node/4323835

— Background info.


39 posted on 09/07/2017 1:51:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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