Warning: This text accommodates particulars and accusations of sexual and bodily abuse
The Houston rapper Viper has been arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping, after allegedly holding a girl hostage for a number of years.
In court docket paperwork obtained by the Houston Chronicle, the rapper – actual identify Lee Carter – was arrested on Thursday (January 4).
The alleged sufferer has mentioned that Carter held her captive for 4 or 5 years, being compelled to stay in his storage. She says she was repeatedly sexually assaulted, compelled to take crack cocaine and disadvantaged of the power to scrub.
Police had first been alerted to the case again in April 2023, when a kidnapping was reported. The lady mentioned she had been taken by Carter whereas panhandling and held in an hooked up storage in his South Houston property.
The paperwork allege she was sometimes let into the remainder of Carter’s dwelling. It additionally outlines an alleged incident the place the lady was capable of escape of the storage by means of the window, solely to be taken by police to hospital and later launched again to Carter.
The paperwork define that Carter allowed the lady to entry his laptop computer for a interval on April 7, 2023, at which level she used a textual content app to contact the police and say that she had been held hostage.
When police encountered the lady, she is claimed to have “weighed roughly 70 kilos”, showing severely malnourished. Authorities mentioned her mattress was lined in recent vomit, remnants of snack meals and a “makeshift rest room”.
The lady’s hair was described as “crusty” and she or he claimed to not have showered in two months.
Carter releases home made hip-hop data beneath the identify Viper which have been categorised as influential within the cloud rap and vaporwave communities. His most high-profile launch was 2008’s ‘You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack’.
Carter has not commented publicly on the accusations. He’s scheduled to look in a Houston court docket for a preliminary listening to on Monday (January 8).
