A stranger offered to help a 14-year-old girl who had claimed that her father had raped her, but only if she had registered him first.

Some time after 11:00 in the night of January 13, A 14-year-old girl ran away from her home in the mountains of Tennessee. He gets into the car of 31-year-old Bryan Rogers and returns home to Wisconsin for 1,200 kilometers., according to the police, avoiding toll roads and service stations, any place monitored.

He was virtually a stranger, but she was expecting him to be a stranger ready to help. He had started chatting with him on Christmas Eve after meeting in the Roblox online game. In a short time, she had confessed to him through online messages that her adoptive father had badually badaulted her.

She explained that she had tried to tell her mother what was happening, but that she did not believe her., according to an affidavit from the police. She told him that she was so angry that she had planned to commit suicide. The 14-year-old was desperate. "I can not stay here Bryan, please, please," she writes.

He would help her, she said, but with one condition: she should record the video violation and send it to him.

This is the only way for him to avoid going to jail, he said.

"I know you do not want to do it but I do not want to see how your alto dad is too," He told the teenager, according to the messages that the FBI would have obtained afterwards. "But we need a clear video test."

So she gave it to him – and now this video is the basis of a federal case of badual exploitation against Rogers and a rape charge against his adoptive father, Randall Pruitt. After more than two weeks of intensive research, investigators on June 31 found the girl hiding in Rogers' home in Madison, Wisconsin, where he lived with his mother, according to the affidavit filed Monday. at the Federal Court of Wisconsin.

He defended that did not alert the police about allegations of badual abuse nor hand over the video to the authorities because he thought it was unclear and that he would not appear in court.

Rogers' lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The search for the 14-year-old girl started almost immediately after his mother discovered that he was not in his room at dawn on January 14th.

Soon, police detected his phone near a telecommunications tower in Corbin, Kentucky, 50 kilometers from the Tennessee border. But no one knew at that time if she had been kidnapped or if she had run away. His parents did not know why he was in Kentucky or why he was heading north because they had just left Georgia, and nothing on his laptop or his SMS indicated his flight plans. The calendar in his room at the country house where he lived with Pruitt, his mother and three brothers, about a mile from a mountain in Madisonville, Tennessee, indicated that he had plans for the weekend, reported the channel. local news WATE 6. The teenager, who was at home and an animal lover, left a to-do list posted on the wall, reminders to feed horses and pigs, ducks and dogs.

On January 25, Pruitt and the mother of the teenage girl, Christina, appeared before a crowd of reporters with the Monroe County Sheriff. They begged their daughter, if she listened to them "go home".

"It's as if your soul was torn from the body" said the bearded Pruitt, in his black and blue checked shirt, dressed in blue jeans. "You can not think, you can not eat, you can not sleep, you can not rest, life has stopped since the day she left."

What Pruitt did not know was that while he was asking for help from citizens, according to the police, his daughter had secretly recorded her badually abusing her and had shared the recording with Rogers. The police think that Pruitt is the same man who entered the girl's room at dawn and raped her.

In online posts that started on December 24 and then received the FBI, the girl disagreed with the creation of the video, but Roger badured her that it was absolutely necessary and not negotiable if she wanted help.

"Bryan, do you understand how difficult it is?" The teenager said, according to the affidavit.

"Yes … but understand that I can have a lot of trouble to welcome you" he replied "Unless you can prove what he did, they can turn you back if they catch us."

"I understand Bryan, I guess … in terms of the need for evidence and getting in trouble," she said.

He gave him the instructions.

"Stay in your room when he comes home and leaves the phone registration", He told him. "That way, when he comes for you, he will record and you will not have to worry about anything, and I can not rely on any infallible proof against your father, if he's bothering you since 12 years old … If it's not enough reason to make the video then I do not know what to say to you ".

She cursed him and reminded him that he wanted to commit suicide for it.

"Then I Am I stupid not to risk going to jail for someone I do not even know? " he asked.

"I have no idea!" He replied. But you can not leave me here! "

Once the investigators found Rogers on January 31, they returned home. He admitted to having spoken to the girl via Roblox and told the agents that she had told him about the badual badault and that he had sent her a video., but he badured that he had not traveled to Tennessee and that the girl was not with him, according to the affidavit.

The agents returned four hours later. At that moment, his mother opened the door.

They told him that they had to search the house – and that's when They found the 14 year old teenager hidden in the basement closet.

After arresting him, Rogers admitted that he had asked the young woman to send him the video of the complete offense by email, and once he received it, he went to Tennessee to pick it up and bring it back, according to his statement. Rogers admitted that he had tried to avoid any surveillance at the toll booths and that he had broken his phone so that it could no longer be followed, according to the release.

The agents found the seven-minute video on their computer.

Rogers is currently detained in Dane County Jail and will appear in federal court Thursday for a detention hearing in the Western District of Wisconsin. Incurs a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years imprisonment and 30 years maximum for the charge of badual exploitation of a minor for the purpose of producing a visual representation, according to the Department of Justice.

The young woman's adoptive father, Pruitt, appeared in court on Wednesday. Wear a bulletproof vest over his prisoner's suit. His bail was set at $ 2,000,000 for the violation charge, informed WTVC.

The girl has returned to Monroe County, according to WATE 6, but her location and that of her siblings are confidential. The news channel spoke to her mother, who said she was focusing on "bringing her daughter home". According to media reports, she added that all charges against Pruitt were new to her.