We’re learning more after seven men were arrested in connection with sexual assault and trafficking three teen girls in Connecticut.
NBC Connecticut has obtained arrest warrants that detail a disturbing string of events, before the girls were found by family members.
The warrants state three 14-year-old girls were supposed to be having a sleepover at one of their homes in Bristol, but what happened next was what one of the victims called a “joy ride gone bad.”
It ended with one of their aunts finding them three days later, according to authorities.
Warrants show that on Thursday, May 1, three minors left a sleepover at a house in Bristol to hang out with friends. They were then brought to Donovan Dunn’s home in Hartford where police say there were sexually assaulted by him and four other men.
The girls then claim the men dropped them off at 25 Hillyer St. One girl said they never came back for them and ended up leaving.
They were then taken to the Super 8 hotel on West Service Road by two men, who then sexually assaulted them in one of the rooms. One of the men tried to pay them after the assault, according to the warrants.
Another man, identified as Ahmad Compton, later showed up. The three girls told him they were 14 years old, to which he said they look 16 and would treat them as such, the warrants state.
Documents reveal Compton raped all of them and told them he was going to get them business. He showed them hand signals and explained what they meant when it came to being with other men.
Compton said he would get them flip phones, and take them to certain spots. One of the girls said he even traced a circle with his hands, stating the girls were now in his circle.
He then took the girls to an apartment on Nelton Way, which is near Hillyer Street, where they were first taken. He told a man there to watch them and not let them leave, the warrants state.
Meanwhile, over the course of three days while the girls were missing, one of the girls’ mothers filed missing persons reports in Bristol. One of the mothers was told by one of the girls’ friends, who spoke to Dunn, that they were taken to Hillyer Street. Their families then began canvassing the area, according to warrants.
When Compton brought the girls to the Nelton Way apartment, a witness saw them and called one of the girl’s mothers. Her sisters then showed up and found the girls in a bedroom in the apartment. They were then taken to Connecticut Children’s for evaluation, the warrants read.
The incident remains under investigation.
