BRONX, New York (WABC) — A younger girl, held hostage and raped at a house in Bronx, is now protected due to her wherewithal to order a meals supply on an app, with a chilling notice pleading for the recipient to name the cops.

The Grubhub order for a breakfast sandwich and a burger at 5 a.m. on a Sunday was nothing uncommon for the parents on the Chipper Truck Café on McLean Avenue in Yonkers, however what was unusual was the notice underneath extra directions.

It was clearly rapidly written, saying to name the cops and have them include the meals and never make it apparent.

“She was basically saying to bring the police with the delivery,” stated Alice Bermejo of Chipper Truck Cafe.

Alice Bermejo, who owns the enterprise along with her husband, says he received a name from the employee who noticed the order come up on the display.

“They’d seen the note on the order, and they called my husband, said ‘what should we do,’ and he was like, ‘call the police, can’t take any risks, better be safe than sorry,'” she stated.

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The order got here from an tackle within the Eastchester part of the Bronx, the place authorities say a 32-year-old man was holding a 24-year-old girl towards her will and sexually assaulting her.

They had met in individual months after first assembly on-line, and it turned violent. He would not let her have her cellphone, besides to order meals.

At that hour, her greatest hope was getting a message to a restaurant three and a half miles away. The Bermejo household is grateful to the worker who did name the police and clarify.

“Just knowing that like, we were there, and that being open 24 hours allowed her to have a way to get help,” Alice Bermejo’s daughter Alicia stated.

The suspect opened a door, in response to courtroom paperwork, admitting he thought the younger girl’s meals had arrived. But it was the police.

That suspect, recognized as 32-year-old Kemoy Royal, was hit with a slew of fees together with rape, illegal imprisonment, strangulation, felony intercourse act and sexual abuse, amongst different counts.

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And he is now additionally charged within the tried sexual assault of one other younger girl days earlier.

That incident befell at Royal’s residence on June 14 and was reported the following day. Somehow, that 26-year-old sufferer was capable of get away. It’s unclear why police hadn’t arrested Royal for that first incident till June 19.

He was charged in each circumstances on the similar time.

Royal was arrested due to that Grubhub order, which the Bermejo’s did not know till they received a name from the sufferer’s good friend.

“They called to thank us and just to be like, ‘thank you so much for helping my friend and just, you know making sure that she was fine,'” Alicia Bermejo stated. “We really had no idea of the gravity of the situation until after everything had happened.”

They give the sufferer credit score for her fast pondering in a daunting state of affairs.

“I can’t even imagine. I hope someday we get to meet her,” Alice Bermejo stated.

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