Missing South Carolina Woman Found Chained Like Dog; Sex Offender Arrested
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. — The Spartanburg County sheriff said Thursday that an Anderson woman who went missing in August was found alive and being held captive in the Woodruff area.
Dozens of deputies descended on this property in Spartanburg County on Nov. 3.
Sheriff Chuck Wright said Kala Brown was found “chained up like a dog” and had been kept there for two months. Wright said she was being held in a metal storage container that is approximately 30 feet by 15 feet on a large tract of property along Wofford Road. Investigators discovered her after hearing a banging sound inside the container.
Brown was reportedly being fed by her captor while chained up by her neck.
“It’s all by God’s grace we found that little girl alive,” Wright said. She is currently being treated at an undisclosed medical facility.
Brown, 30, and boyfriend Charles Carver were reported missing after disappearing in late August. Carver is still missing but Wright said a vehicle believed to belong to Carver was found on the property where Brown has being held.
Brown’s mother, Bobbie Newsom, said her daughter disappeared on social media on Aug. 28 and there has been no activity on her cell phone since Aug. 31. Newsom later found Brown’s apartment unlocked and the dog inside without food and water. The dog’s crate was also missing.
The Anderson Police Department subsequently launched an investigation into the couple’s disappearance.
A few weeks later, mysterious posts on Facebook began to surface on the Facebook account belonging to Carver. The posts claimed Carver and Brown were alive and well but the missing woman’s family was not convinced.
Newsom said Thursday that her daughter was extremely emotional but was in good physical condition.
“I have got so many emotions going on,” Newsom said. “I’m ecstatic, scared because you know, I’m mad because of what she went through. I’m still scared because of what she is going to have to go through to get her normalcy in her life… It’s going to be a long road, but we got this.”
Carver’s family members are clinging to hope that he is still alive.
“If she’s alive, he’s alive, maybe not here, but somewhere,” Carver’s brother, Nathan Shiflet said. “Hope for the best and believe in God, that’s all you can do. He’ll bring us through.”
Source: Fox Carolina