‘Plenty of Fish’ date ends with woman being kidnapped, held for days, SC sheriff says
A woman who met a man on a dating website was kidnapped and held for five days in South Carolina before she escaped this week, according to the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman told police she met Christopher Harris, 30, on the dating app Plenty of Fish and the two met several times before he invited her to his home in Awedaw, a rural community north of Charleston, according to the police report.
When she got to the house, which she described to deputies as “a trap house” with broken windows and debris in the yard, Harris allegedly hit her, according to the report.
She told deputies that Harris beat her and sexually assaulted her for five days at the house, which he shares with five other people. He kept her locked in his room, the report said.
When she was finally let out of the room, Harris accused her of flirting with his roommates and beat her up, eventually picking up a machete and threatening to kill her, deputies allege.
At some point he put the machete down, the woman told deputies, so she picked it up and swung it at his legs, the report states. “She believes she made contact,” she told deputies. She escaped out of a broken window and one of the people at the house drove her to the hospital, according to the report.
Harris was arrested Thursday and is being held in the Charleston County Detention Center, according to jail records. He’s charged with kidnapping and first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
