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An 88-year-old US woman who talked a home invader out of raping her has told local media how she did it. A man posing as an apartment worker forced himself inside her home and tied her up with duct tape. But she managed to still be able to talk, telling the intruder she had HIV and her husband had died from it. Helen Reynolds lives in an apartment complex in Parkesburg - a small Pennsylvania town. Ms Reynolds says he covered her face, nose and glasses with the tape, even putting a piece in her mouth.

88-year-old woman stops rape by claiming to be HIV-positive

An 88-year-old Pennsylvania woman says she talked an attacker out of raping her by lying to him that she was HIV-positive. Helen Reynolds tells WPVI-TV the man forced his way into her Parkesburg apartment on the afternoon of Feb. 17. In that case, a 72-year-old woman was bound and locked inside a closet, where she wasn't discovered for four days. She tells Philly.com she "kicked him where it hurt him the most" before he fled. He rifled through her purse, took $40 and was preparing to sexually assault her.


Elderly woman stops rape by claiming to be HIV-positiveAn 88-year-old Pennsylvania woman says she talked an attacker out of raping her by lying to him that she was HIV-positive. Helen Reynolds tells WPVI-TV the man forced his way into her apartment on the afternoon of February 17. Screenshot/WPVI-TV Helen Reynolds told her attacker she was HIV-positive to stop him raping her. In that case, a 72-year-old woman was bound and locked inside a closet, where she wasn't discovered for four days. She says he stopped after she told him her husband died of HIV and she also had the virus.


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