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Man has court date on charges of raping girl, 13, holding her captive | ||||||
2010-02-11 | ||||||
This guy and his neighbors and friends better get their stories straight or there's going to be trouble. A Buffalo, New York, man is due in court Thursday to face charges that he raped a 13-year-old runaway police say he held prisoner in his home for six months. Michael J. Abdallah, 26,
Buffalo police said that Abdallah kept the girl in his home from July through December 2009, behind dead-bolt locks and doors with no doorknobs. A criminal complaint alleges that Abdallah had sex with her more than 100 times. Police spokesman Michael DeGeorge said Abdallah also forced the girl to baby-sit his year-old son. Abdallah is unmarried, and the identity of the child's mother is not known. Police would not say how the girl left Adbdallah's home, why there was a delay from December to February for his arrest or where the teenager is now. Abdallah was arrested Friday when police raided his home on a child-abuse allegation, Buffalo media reported. The next day, Buffalo City Court Judge James A.W. McLeod set bond at $250,000 in an arraignment at which Abdallah represented himself. He has since been provided with a court-appointed attorney, according to media reports. Bail? Bail? BAIL? But friends of the defendant told the Buffalo News that he was nothing more than a Good Samaritan trying to help a runaway girl he met in a Buffalo park.
"Mike always had her calling to someone, supposedly her aunt, to say she was doing OK. From what I knew, her aunt or her mom knew where she was staying," said Bellaus, who previously had a romantic relationship with Abdallah. "To look at her, she is very developed physically, and you would think that she is older than 13." That's what Mo' said about Aisha ... Bellaus said the girl told her she was 17 or 18 and denied having sex with Abdallah, and that she also said she did not want to go home to her mother, the News said.
George Kimble, who lives four doors from Abdallah, said he was surprised when he learned about the accusations. "This is a street where everyone knows everyone," said Kimble, who remembered Abdallah moving in about a year-and-a-half ago. "I never recall him with a 13-year-old girl." Kimble said Abdallah was seldom home, and their brief conversations were limited to Abdallah's two dogs. Other neighbors told Kimble the house had a steady stream of visitors on any given day.
And while Abdallah was charged with unlawful imprisonment, the official explained that it was not a case of locking the girl up against her will, but using psychological ploys to keep her under his control from July to December. When Ferry-Fillmore District Officer Ann Vanyo arrested Abdallah last week at his Thomas Street home, she noted in her report that the doors to his house lacked doorknobs and could only be opened by a key that operated two deadbolts. He also was charged with possession of marijuana. This is not the first time that Abdallah and his family have been in the news. His father, Saleh K. Abdullah,
The Abdallah family, some of whom spell their last name differently, also was in the news in 2008 after their then-21-year-old daughter, Etidal, a Trocaire College student, disappeared for five months, prompting fears that she had been abducted. The family hired a private detective, who found the woman living with a relative's girlfriend in Buffalo.
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