The mother of a Kentucky mother allegedly drugged and raped at a Bahamian resort knew “something was wrong” before she received disturbing text messages revealing the alleged assault earlier this month. .
Dongueira Dobson’s mother, Frankie King, said: “Please call me right away because she was drugged and raped.” I remembered his message to FOX News.
Dobson and his childhood best friend, Amber Shearer, took a Carnival cruise in February and spent a day relaxing at Pirates Cove Resort on Grand Bahama Beach.
Dobson said the mothers were spending time on the beach when resort staff offered them a two-for-one drink deal.
They received two tropical drinks, one pineapple and one coconut, but Dobson says they immediately found the drinks stronger than expected and became extremely drunk 15 minutes after their first sip. he told NewsNation’s “Cuomo.”
King knew something was wrong when she spoke to Dobson on FaceTime in the morning and noticed her daughter looked “a little weird.”
“I asked her if she was OK, and she said, ‘I’m OK,’ and she was just sitting at the bar to get something to drink,” King recalled.
“A few minutes later, I logged on to Facebook and saw a video of them all over the place, just giggling and not themselves at all.”
After watching the footage, King said she called her daughter to make sure her two friends were okay and asked her how many drinks she had already had.
Travel advisory issued for Bahamas and Jamaica
- The U.S. Embassy issued a strict safety warning and travel advisory on January 24 after 18 mostly gang-related murders in the Bahamas in January.
- The US embassy warned travelers to “exercise extreme caution” east of the Bahamian capital Nassau.
- Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis said in a statement that his government is working “vigilant, vigilant and proactive” to ensure the island nation remains “welcome” to travelers.
- The State Department has issued a strict travel warning for Jamaica, where 65 murders occurred last month. The U.S. Embassy in Jamaica has raised its travel advisory to Level 3, “Please reconsider travel,” one step below the most severe level, warning Americans to avoid travel altogether. ing.
- The Bahamas and Jamaica tourism boards insist their countries remain safe for tourists despite the US warning.
Dobson reportedly told her mother that she hadn’t finished her drink yet.
“They don’t drink much, but I’ve seen them both drunk,” King said. “I knew something else was going on. Something felt wrong, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.”
Ms Dobson and Ms Shearer are said to have been lured to a secluded area to search for seashells by a male staff member at the resort, amid horrifying videos and haunting text messages.
When Shearer came out, she told NewsNation that she was “in the process of being raped.”
The two were eventually found unconscious in the bathroom by another resort employee.
“It’s every parent’s worst nightmare,” Dr. King said. “Your child is in trouble, in danger, and scared. And they’re 300 miles away. I can’t go to them.”
After the incident was reported to the resort and local police, two male staff members, a 40-year-old from Southern Bahamas and a 54-year-old from Eight Mile Rock, were arrested by Royal Bahamas Police in connection with the sexual assault.
While Dobson and Shearer were on their cruise, the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas issued a safety warning and travel advisory after 18 murders occurred in the country in January.
The furious mother reiterated her daughter’s intention to share photos of her injuries to warn others of the dangers of traveling to the Caribbean country.
“Their main goal, which they started posting shortly after the incident, was to make people aware that it was a dangerous place, because it felt like there was no warning.” said Mr. King.
However, Pirates Cove Resort claimed that the CCTV footage did not match Mr Dobson and Mr Shearer’s account of what happened.
“Upon further review of the surveillance video, the claims made at the scene and subsequent social media posts and news articles are inconsistent with what is contained in the time-stamped surveillance video,” Pirates Cove Beach Resort said in a statement. ” in a statement, without providing further details. Daily Mail reported.
