It is impossible to never let your guard down, but for some violent scum, a moment is all it takes to act out their filthy desires. When 21-year-old student Jaila Gladden left her apartment in Carrollton, Georgia to Kroger’s grocery store, she didn’t think that evening would change her life forever. A man in the parking lot reportedly asked her for a lighter. Jaila responded she didn’t have one but the guy kept following her. Once at her car, she felt a knife pressed against her.
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21-year-old student Jaila Gladden was kidnapped in a parking lot in Georgia

Image credits: Jaila Symone Gladden

She felt a knife pressed against her while trying to get inside the car

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The man drove them behind an abandoned church and raped her

After he was done, the attacker took her to Atlanta. He asked where the nearest gas stations were

Jaila convinced him she needed her phone to google the locations. She turned the screen’s brightness down and secretly shared her location in a text to her boyfriend

“I immediately realized it was serious”

“She would never play like that, she would never say that for no reason”

Her boyfriend rushed to the local police station which notified the Atlanta Police Department

Image credits: Jaila Symone Gladden

A police officer in Atlanta saw a car matching the description in a parking lot. Soon, the suspect was arrested

Image credits: Mike Focus

The kidnapper was charged with aggravated assault, rape, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, and aggravated assault against a police officer