Connor Smith, from ‘Are You The One’ has been arrested and charged with the rape and sexual assault of a teenager. Here’s all you need to know about the case.
Connor Smith is a television personality who appeared in Season 3 of “Are You the One?” as a cast member. He was 25 years old when he appeared on the show, and he was from Tinley Park, Illinois, in the United States.
In 2021, the 31-year-old is accused of forcing a young girl to perform a sex act on him right after she got into his pickup vehicle in Hobart on July 16 and forcing her to accompany him to a hotel.
The police were informed by the girl. According to Lake Criminal Court documents, Smith threatened her with a cigarette lighter if she didn’t cooperate.
As she waited for Smith in the hotel lobby, she could hear the locks on Smith’s truck bursting, and she presumed Smith was constantly pushing the lock button on his key fob to keep her from fleeing, according to documents.
@tweetconnor180 today 20.02.16 pic.twitter.com/EI3ToQY6RJ
— Are You The One?S3 (@AreYouTheOneS3) February 20, 2016
According to court filings, Smith struck her when she begged him to let her go and then attacked her again when she refused to strip. Later, she stripped off most of her clothes and was taken into the toilet by her hair, where Smith urinated on her and forced her to swallow his pee by holding her nose.
Furthermore, the young girl informed police that Smith afterward took her back to her family’s Hobart house and assured her that he’d be back the next night at the same time.
Several of her relatives were outside when he left her off at a corner, and they began following Smith’s truck as he drove away.
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Yes, Illinois resident Connor Smith was arrested on Thursday on allegations of traveling to Hobart last summer to rape and sexually assault a 16-year-old girl he met online, according to investigators. He was arrested and sent to the Cook County Jail, where he will be held until he is extradited to Lake County.
Smith was recognized after the girl’s relative gave police his license plate number when he dropped her off. Sith was the most likely match with the girl’s sexual assault kit, according to DNA tests.
Following that, he was charged with felony rape, sexual violence, and two counts of criminal confinement on December 10.
Good morning everyone. Go out there and kick today’s ass! pic.twitter.com/kPKTO0F5Mz
— MTV Connor Smith (@tweetconnor180) August 26, 2015
He is accused of dragging or leading the girl back to the bed, forcing her to perform a sex act, strangling her for struggling, then raping her again.
Initially, the girl told the police Smith allegedly dragged her out of a window at her Hobart home by her hair before the alleged rape, but she subsequently claimed she made up that portion of the tale because she didn’t want to get in trouble for sneaking out, according to court records.