Man accused of exploiting girl, 14, who asked to rescue her from abusive stepdad | Daily Mail Online
Feb 6, 2019
Girl, 14, who ran away from home 'because her stepfather was raping her' begged a 31-year-old man she met online to rescue her - 'but he made her send a VIDEO of a sex attack before he came to get her'
- Bryan Rogers, 31, of Wisconsin, charged with sexual exploitation of a minor for the purpose of producing a visual depiction
- He is accused of persuading 14-year-old Tennessee girl to send him video of her stepdad, Randall Pruitt, 41, raping her
- Home-schooled victim met Rogers in December on a gaming platform and asked him to rescue her from Pruitt
- Affidavit says Rogers told her he needed proof and that without video evidence, he would be 'in a hell of a lot of trouble'
- After the teen sent him rape video, Rogers drove more than 700 miles to pick her up from Tennessee and take her to Wisconsin
- Girl was found in a closet inside Madison, Wisconsin, home where Rogers lived with his mother
- Pruitt was charged with rape last Thursday in Madisonville, Tennessee
- The teenager's mother, Christina, has not been charged, even though victim claimed she had told her mom about the sexual abuse
The girl's mother has not been charged in connection to the rape, even though the victim claimed in her exchanges with Rogers that she had tried telling Christina about the sexual abuse.
'She was my sunshine, and now my sunshine is gone,' Christina told reporters during her and Pruitt's appeal to the public last week. 'Please help us find our baby, please.
'We're very heartbroken. I miss her. I don't understand...none of us understand,' she said.
WATE 6 On Your Side has recently interviewed Christina, who insisted that she knew nothing about the alleged sexual abuse of her daughter, and said she was now focused on coping with the trauma and caring for her three other children.