A man from Idaho has been charged for seeking men to rape his wife by placing ad in the casual encounters section of classifieds website Craigslist. The 32-year-old man had been accused on Monday on charges of solicitation of rape and burglary
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The name of the man has been withheld to protect the identity of the intended victim.
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According to the prosecutors, the man, without his wife's knowledge or consent, posted a classified ad posing as a woman who fantasised about being raped, and then exchanged emails with the men who had responded to arrange the assaults, News24 reported.
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Twin Falls police had been called to the woman's house shortly after midnight on Thursday and again on Saturday afternoon after reports of men breaking into her house.
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The first man had fled when the woman's handgun went off during a struggle. She held the second man at gunpoint until the police arrived.
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According to police, the husband had instructed the second man to force his way into the home, rape the woman and "not stop no matter how much she resisted."u00a0
