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<\/p>\nA woman has been found with a padlock and chain wrapped around her as a convicted paedophile who allegedly kidnapped her was arrested. <\/p>\n
Doctors were left stunned when the woman, with a bruised face, admitted herself to hospital in the Spanish city of Miranda de Ebro. She arrived at the Santiago Ap\u00f3stol hospital, with the locks still around herself and explained that she had managed to get free from a kidnapper.<\/p>\n
The woman has not been named but is understood to be 40 years old. She told cops that she had previously been at the hospital to visit a friend who was unwell.<\/p>\n
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She left the hospital and claims a man, known only as JMG and known to her, offered to give her a lift home but during the journey said he had to stop off and pick up a few things. She claimed he had gained her trust by this stage and invited her in but after the front door was closed he hit her to the point of unconsciousness.<\/p>\n
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She said she eventually regained consciousness, but woke with a chain around her neck, held by the man as he made a bid to strangle her. During this, reports claim he was insulting her.<\/p>\n
To prevent her from fighting back he allegedly cuffed her hands. In the police report it appears that despite JMG\u2019s efforts, the woman managed to get free and make a break for it through a window while he was distracted. From there she went to relatives and then on to the hospital.<\/p>\n
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Following the identification of the man, authorities were alerted. They have since confirmed that a 57-year-old man has been arrested although Spanish authorities and media have not officially named him.<\/p>\n
According to MailOnline, the man has been previously convicted of kidnapping and abusing a nine-year-old girl in 2015 in Burgalesa. The case is now being investigated and being treated as an incident of gendered sexual violence by the Family and Domestic Violence unit of the Miranda Policia Nacional.<\/p>\n
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