19-year-old woman escapes naked after ‘friends’ kidnap, attack and rob her, police say

AKRON, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - Police say officers are still searching for suspects after a 19-year-old Ohio woman was attacked, held in a basement, stripped of her clothes and robbed.

The alleged attack took place just after midnight Dec. 27 at a home on Beardsley Street in Akron. Akron Police Capt. Michael Miller told WOIO the victim was lured to the home by people she considered to be her friends.

While there, the victim says three people held her captive and attacked and beat her. She was also stripped and robbed in an ordeal that police say was recorded on video.

“It is very humiliating, very traumatizing, we imagine, for this young woman, this victim. Very disappointing, too, that the people involved would commit this crime,” Miller said.

Police say the 19-year-old was eventually able to escape, running out of the home without any clothes on.

“To be subjected to walk any distance in that physical condition, let alone disrobed, not dressed, essentially nude or near nude, is humiliating,” Miller said.

A good Samaritan saw the young woman walking naked on East South Street. He pulled over to help and called police.

“Yeah, I just picked a young lady up. She was walking down the street naked. She said somebody jumped her and robbed her. I’ve got her in the car here... She is butt naked. She has nothing on,” the good Samaritan told the 911 dispatcher.

Miller says the 19-year-old sustained facial and head trauma in the attack.

“Thank God we have a community out there and people that care enough to step in and give some aid and help,” he said.

Police say they arrested 19-year-old Kendill Worthy in connection with the attack. She is being held in the Summit County Jail on a bond of $100,000.

However, detectives say there are still more people they need to track down.

“This may not even, in fact, be limited to just three people that participated in the assault. There may have been some other people with knowledge or perspective that the detectives may want to talk to,” Miller said. “We want to hold, in the end, any and everyone responsible.”

Worthy appeared in court Monday for her arraignment. Her case has been bound over to the Summit County Grand Jury.

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