A man who broke into a family home in Iowa, USA stared at a woman sleeping alone on the sofa in the living room before running away.
According to the New York Post on the 18th (local time), an assailant broke into a woman’s house in Ankini, Iowa, early in the morning of the 1st.
In the closed-circuit (CC) TV video, the man stayed in the apartment with the lights off for about 30 minutes, writing something on paper and drinking alcohol, acting calmly as if he was at home. He even used the bathroom and wandered around to the children’s room.
At this time, the landlord woman was sleeping on the sofa in the living room, and the assailant stood in front of the sleeping woman and stared down at her face. She also did the odd thing of laying women’s shoes in front of the sofa.
A man laying out women’s shoes in front of a sofa (lawandcrime)
Writing something on paper in the kitchen (lawandcrime)Eventually, when the woman, who woke up in the dark, asked, “Who are you?” The woman then gave her goosebumps and screamed at her.
At first, I thought it would be a family member or a friend of the children in my sleep, but I was later surprised. The victim said, “Belatedly, I realized that he was not a friend of the children. Then I started screaming for my children,” she said.
Police took the man’s fingerprints and started searching for the suspect, and arrested a 23-year-old man named ‘Dan Abhimanara’. However, he only applied for trespass charges as he did not steal anything outright and did not harm anyone. The only thing stolen was a pair of socks.
capture lawandcrime“It’s creepy,” the woman said in an interview with local media. Someone (in my family) forgot to lock the door, and because of my habit of sleeping with the TV on, I didn’t feel like it was there,” she said.
At the same time, regarding the charges received by the man, “at least the charge of robbery or assault should be applied. When I woke up, I felt threatened for my life. Because of that incident, I can’t sleep. I keep waking up at night and looking around to see who is in my room. Every time you turn a corner, look for people. It really had a bad impact on my life,” he said indignantly.
Source: Donga
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