Woman escapes dayslong ‘Facebook Dating’ app nightmare when her alleged rapist and captor becomes ‘passed out’ drunk on wine

Caleb Fast (Escambia County Sheriff

Caleb Fast (Escambia County Sheriff’s Office)

A 29-year-old man in Florida was arrested over the weekend for allegedly holding captive a woman he met through the “Facebook Dating” app, keeping her in his home against her will for days while he beat and sexually assaulted her.

Caleb Fast was taken into custody on Sunday and charged with one count each of kidnapping — false imprisonment, battery, aggravated assault, and sexual assault, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a probable cause affidavit, deputies with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office responded to an emergency call at about 4:53 a.m. on Sunday at the St. John’s Episcopal Church in the 400 block of Live Oak Avenue in Pensacola, Florida. The church is about 200 miles west of Tallahassee.

First responders found the victim, who was not identified, and said she needed medical attention. Deputies noted the woman appeared to be “visibly shaken and nervous” and had suffered “an obvious injury to her right eye, which was completely swollen shut.”

In an interview with investigators, the victim said she and Fast met through the Facebook Dating app, and the two had been romantically involved for about two weeks before the attack. The victim said she went to Fast’s home voluntarily on Thursday but claimed that when she tried to leave on Friday, he would not allow her. Instead, she said he grabbed a handgun and told her that “he would kill her if she tried to leave.”

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