FINNEY COUNTY—Law enforcement are investigating a suspect for alleged sex assault in connection with an arranged marriage.
Just before 6a.m.., April 11, police responded to the east part of Garden City where a woman was screaming and pleading for help and an unidentified man was following her, according to a media release.
When Officers arrived, they located the woman in the driveway of a home with numerous injuries. She was transported to St. Catherine Hospital for treatment of injuries. The man, identified as Mohamed Hakim, 44, fled before police arrived but was later located and taken into custody.
Officers learned that the victim was recently placed into an arranged marriage to Hakim against her will in exchange for money and was relocated to the United States from overseas by family to carry out the arrangement.
After arriving to Garden City, the victim was physically and sexually assaulted and confined to the home without communication or resources other than provided by Hakim.
Further investigation revealed that the victim’s relocation to the United States was facilitated under transactional and coercive circumstances.
Hakim is being held in the Finney County Jail on requested charges of Rape, Aggravated Domestic Battery, Aggravated Human Trafficking, Aggravated Kidnapping, and Criminal Threat.