Vigilante Dad saves daughter....

If you read this article from the Toledo Blade, it states some facts but leaves out alot of important details. I realize some of the statements from the father are from his side of the story but they could have at least stated more than what they did.

The Blade states:

Police were sent to the Downing residence Monday after the father of one of the girls learned his daughter, 14, was being held there. The 38-year-old Fulton County man claimed she was being sold into prostitution from the residence and was being taken into Michigan.

He smashed in the windows of the residence with a metal pipe, forced his way inside and assaulted Mr. Willoughby with the pipe. His daughter jumped from a second-story window.

The father chased and assaulted Mr. Willoughby. Ms. Shope and Ms. Huskey tried to fight off the father and the three suspects carried him outside, where he was held until police arrived.

Court records indicate the three suspects punched and kicked the father, who was taken to Toledo Hospital. No charges have been filed against the father. The FBI is investigating.

The rest of the story according to the father who was interviewed on a local radio station yesterday:

The two girls went missing on May 13th, they were reported missing on May 14th. It was originally thought they were runaways. The family received a call from Ann Arbor that one of the girls had been held after being picked up at a truck stop by sherrifs. The father and his sister went up to get her. Evidently she did not tell police that she knew where her cousin was. Both girls according to the family had been threatened with physical harm, if one did something wrong the other one was punished. So the "found" girl was afraid to provide details to law enforcement, but did tell the father she knew which street the house was on where his daughter was held.

When the father arrived at the house, he called 911. Twenty minutes passed and he then called the FBI. His sister then called 911 again after a half an hour had passed, she was told cars had not been dispatched yet. Almost 50 minutes later, his ex-wife called 911 and was told it was a "low priority" call. With hearing that the father took a tire iron from his trunk and went up to the house. No one answered the door so he broke the window to get in after he saw his daughter's face in the upstairs window. Now the daughter either was put out the window or climbed out of the window and ran.

The "alledged" kidnapper lunged at the father who started hitting him with the tire iron, then the two women started to fight with the father as well. It ends up in the front yard, where more neighbors start calling 911. The daughter somehow sees that her father is being beaten and demands they stop beating her father. The police finally arrive.

Even if the girls really did run away and somehow got hooked up with this "pimp" you would think that knowing one of the girls was being held against her will and/or being used as a prostitute at age 14 would not be considered a "low priority" call. More proof that some of those Lucas County Sherrif's that sit around here with nothing better to could be helping Toledo if they are that shorthanded. All of the details haven't come out, however, as a parent? I don't think I could wait over 50 minutes knowing one of my daughters was in a house after hearing details of what had happened to her cousin. I also would probably go in with something stronger than a tire iron......