A man is facing rape and other charges after a sex trafficking investigation in Monroe County.
Deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrived at 12:30 a.m. to a residence on North Russell Road on the county’s east side after dispatch reported hearing a woman cry “get off of me” during a 911 call.
As deputies arrived, dispatch received another 911 call from the same caller about two hours later, in which a man could be heard yelling and a woman crying, according to MCSO.
As deputies arrived to determine the location of the 911 call, one deputy reported hearing a man yelling inside a home in the 4300 block of East Trail Ridge Road. The deputy then came to 55-year-old Russell Morgan sitting in a garage.
Morgan apparently informed the deputy that he was “having a conversation” with a woman he knew. Further inquiry revealed the identity of a 34-year-old woman who was paralyzed from the chest down and informed officials that she had been physically and sexually assaulted while being denied food and drink.
She stated that she and Morgan had been in Bloomington for about two months and that Morgan had allegedly ignored her requests for assistance on multiple occasions.
Morgan was arrested and preliminarily charged with the following:
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