A man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a University of West Georgia student received a life prison sentence Monday.
Timothy Curtise Wilson pleaded guilty to kidnapping the woman at knifepoint in September from a Kroger store in Carroll County, then driving her to Atlanta, District Attorney Herb Cranford said.
“While in Atlanta, the defendant parked behind a church, sexually assaulted the victim, and then put her in the trunk of the car,” Cranford said.
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Carrollton police tracked the car to Atlanta using the GPS on the victim’s cellphone, according to prosecutors. The woman secretly sent messages to her boyfriend using her phone, telling him she had been kidnapped.
Atlanta police, alerted to the situation, saw the car, and in a chase that followed, Wilson hit a pursuing police cruiser and fled on foot, Cranford said. The victim was rescued and taken to Grady Memorial Hospital.
Later that day, two Carrollton police investigators who followed the case to Atlanta spotted Wilson and took him into custody without incident.
Wilson also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and hijacking a car.
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