woman found alive after left to die in Mojave dessert without food or water
(CNN)A man and his daughter abducted and raped a Las Vegas woman, taking her to California and holding her about a week before she was "left to die" outside Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert, investigators said.
Among the charges against Stanley Lawton, 54, and his daughter Shaniya Poche-Lawton, 22, are kidnapping to commit robbery, attempted murder, rape and robbery, according to the complaint.
Military police found the alleged victim, cold and disoriented, outside the base during a routine patrol on November 6, according to Capt. Eddie Hernandez of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
"She's very lucky to be alive" after she was found by chance, Hernandez said. She had been dumped without food or water, he said. It's not clear how long she had been in the desert, he said.
The woman was treated at a hospital and has been released, Hernandez said.
The suspects abducted the woman at gunpoint around October 30 and at some point took her to a house in Palmdale, California.
She was with them for "at least a week," Hernandez said at a news conference Friday. Investigators believe the house belongs to Lawton, he said.
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I think so. Twenty-two seems so young, and to team up with a parent to commit such heinous acts makes me believe the adult child has a history of being abused. The story reminded me of the early 2000s D.C. sniper duo, a grown man and a 17-year-old boy whom the man treated like a son and abused long before the killing started.
I am certainly not suggesting the young woman should be absolved or not punished; abused or not, she made choices that she has to be held accountable for and punished. I'm just saying that like the Muhammad/Malvo case, there might be mitigating circumstances. Does that make sense?
