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19 year old holds girlfriend captive in college dorm and then waterboards her!

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A 19-year-old man is accused of holding his girlfriend captive in her dorm room at a university in Minnesota while he raped, beat and waterboarded her for days until she escaped.

Keanu Labatte was arrested Sunday at St. Catherine University, an all-female school in St. Paul. He is charged with five felony counts: three for criminal sexual conduct, one for domestic assault by strangulation and one for threats of violence.

The office of the public defender representing Labatte declined to comment on the case.

According to a criminal complaint filed this week, Labatte arrived on campus last Thursday to visit his girlfriend of two months. She is not named in the complaint.

After finding texts, pictures and social media content that infuriated him, Labatte grabbed her phone and kept it away from her for days, the complaint says. She was strangled, threatened with a knife, forced to lie in a bathtub while Labatte covered her face with a washcloth and poured water on her, and sexually assaulted in her dorm room from Thursday to Saturday, it adds.

On Sunday morning, she convinced him to let her leave to get food from the cafeteria. That's when she went to the university's security office and told them she was being abused. They notified police, and police noted black, blue and red marks on her neck, the complaint says.

Police found Labatte in the dorm room, the complaint says, and arrested him on probable cause of domestic assault and sexual assault.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Labatte was still in custody.

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by Anonymousreply 59September 16, 2023 3:04 AM

Narrow-set eyes. Not attractive, so guilty.

by Anonymousreply 1September 14, 2023 4:47 PM

Males who can't grow a decent mustache often lash out at the world

by Anonymousreply 2September 14, 2023 4:48 PM

Terrible

by Anonymousreply 3September 14, 2023 4:50 PM

His name is Keanu?!

by Anonymousreply 4September 14, 2023 4:50 PM

R4 That's what it says in the article!

by Anonymousreply 5September 14, 2023 4:53 PM

He is not good looking. Therefore we do not absolve him.

by Anonymousreply 6September 14, 2023 4:55 PM

Maybe he can find a job at Guantanamo.

by Anonymousreply 7September 14, 2023 4:55 PM

[quote] After finding texts, pictures and social media content that infuriated him, Labatte grabbed her phone and kept it away from her for days

We're all dying to read the texts and view the photos!

Enquiring minds must know!

by Anonymousreply 8September 14, 2023 4:56 PM

I'm confused. According to the DL Klan Grannies, only black people commit acts of violence.

by Anonymousreply 9September 14, 2023 4:58 PM

R9 Didn't you read, this is at a college.

by Anonymousreply 10September 14, 2023 5:35 PM

Rofl R10.

ZING!

by Anonymousreply 11September 14, 2023 5:57 PM

Homely men have such rage.

by Anonymousreply 12September 14, 2023 6:08 PM

I'm more fascinated by the waterboarding thing.

How does a 19 year old "boy" even think of waterboarding someone?

Lol.

Also, how does one learn to waterboard another person? Do you go to school for that?

by Anonymousreply 13September 14, 2023 6:13 PM

r13 I'm sure his search history will reveal some interesting things.

He's an ugly-ass sadist.

by Anonymousreply 14September 14, 2023 6:16 PM

What the hell was she doing with such an ugly guy?

by Anonymousreply 15September 14, 2023 6:22 PM

Well we don't know what she looks like R15.

Her name hasn't even been released.

For all we know, she could be 5'1, 300 pounds, with pimples and a hairy ass.

This guy could have been a catch for her.

by Anonymousreply 16September 14, 2023 6:27 PM

[quote] Lol.

LoL! :)

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by Anonymousreply 17September 14, 2023 6:45 PM

Ugly AND with a bullshit name?

He deserves a long sentence in a prison with dim lighting.

by Anonymousreply 18September 14, 2023 6:50 PM

[quote] Keanu Labatte was arrested Sunday at St. Catherine University, an all-female school in St. Paul

MAN ON THE LAND!!

MAN ON THE LAND!!

by Anonymousreply 19September 14, 2023 6:52 PM

He's like a Dollar Tree version of Adam Driver

by Anonymousreply 20September 14, 2023 6:55 PM

Will you stop with the Lol :) shit. We get it.

by Anonymousreply 21September 14, 2023 6:55 PM

This is what happens when you date Bill Haverchuck.

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by Anonymousreply 22September 14, 2023 7:02 PM

He looks like a cross between Lou Diamond Phillips and Nicolas Cage.

by Anonymousreply 23September 14, 2023 7:10 PM

R22 bill would never!

by Anonymousreply 24September 14, 2023 7:14 PM

R23 with a bit of James Duval

by Anonymousreply 25September 14, 2023 7:15 PM

NA?

by Anonymousreply 26September 14, 2023 7:36 PM

That's what I was thinking too, R26.

She's lucky he didn't scalp her!

by Anonymousreply 27September 14, 2023 7:38 PM

Shitass

by Anonymousreply 28September 14, 2023 7:42 PM

Is male his cisgender? I’m not tryna be funny either.

by Anonymousreply 29September 14, 2023 7:46 PM

Someone regenerate his face with AI and see if you can make him better looking.

by Anonymousreply 30September 14, 2023 7:48 PM

Well, he didn't kill her before she left for college. So there's that.

by Anonymousreply 31September 14, 2023 7:50 PM

He looks like he has some Native American/First Nation ancestry. Looking up his surname Labatte on-line, it says it's associated with the indigenous peoples of Canada.

by Anonymousreply 32September 14, 2023 7:54 PM

Hey R26 you nailed it.

I found an obituary of his grandfather or great-grandfather or something.

Keanu's listed at the bottom as a pall bearer.

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by Anonymousreply 33September 14, 2023 8:22 PM

R33 Dead grandfather, eh?

Keanu's first victim? Check the corpse for choke bruises!

by Anonymousreply 34September 14, 2023 8:23 PM

Weird eyes. R33 Exactly.

by Anonymousreply 35September 14, 2023 8:30 PM

[quote] ‘I plead the Fifth’

A boyfriend showed up at a university dorm room where his girlfriend of two months lived, held her captive for days, raped the victim and waterboarded her after becoming enraged by texts and photos on her phone, authorities in Minnesota allege.

Keanu Avery Labatte, 19, allegedly began the series of sex attacks in the St. Catherine University dorm in St. Paul last Thursday, Sept. 7, after the victim refused to have sex with him. Investigators said that the Granite Falls resident confiscated the victim’s phone, threatened her with a knife, and sexually assaulted, strangled, and beat her until Sunday morning — when she finally escaped by somehow persuading him to let her leave for some food.

“LABATTE went from giving her hickies, which was consensual, to forcefully removing her clothing and penetrating her vaginally and anally with his penis and fingers after she told him that she did not want to have sex,” the complaint said.

The suspect had allegedly made threats to kill both the victim and her family members, and suggested he’d hold the victim at knifepoint just like he did to a previous girlfriend.

The victim also said Labatte “yelled and physically assaulted her” and that he “used two hands on her neck to strangle her and threatened to kill her, while calling her a slut,” the complaint said.

At the time of the alleged days-long sex attack, Labatte was on probation in Yellow Medicine County for violating a harassment restraining order filed by the family of another victim.

According to a criminal complaint, the victim told investigators she was so “terrified” that she “would just lay next to Labatte and not move for fear of what he would do to her.” She recalled the suspect moving a mattress inside the dorm room from the bed frame to the floor, so that the bed wouldn’t squeak as he committed the assaults.

By the weekend, the victim further said, the suspect put a washcloth over her face and started waterboarding her in a bathtub.

The victim said Labatte “punched her in the stomach four times, twice in the throat and once in the face.”

“She detailed the waterboarding, saying that LABATTE filled a bucket, forced her to lay in the bathtub, put a washcloth over her face and poured water over her,” the complaint said. Labatte allegedly held the victim’s arm and threatened he was “looking for the right vein to cut deep enough so no one could save her.”

Crucially, the suspect apparently allowed the victim to leave the room to get food and even gave her back her phone on Sunday morning.

Instead of contacting the attacker on Snapchat and providing updates on her whereabouts as he demanded, the victim called for help, the complaint said.

When police arrived at the dorm room scene, the defendant was still there — and authorities said he had only one thing to say: “I plead the Fifth.”

The victim later told a nurse examiner that the pain she felt in her abdominal area had a “rating of 8.5 out of 10,” according to the complaint.

Labatte is now charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct (three counts), threats of violence, and domestic assault by strangulation. Minnesota law defines first-degree criminal sexual conduct as: “sexual penetration with another person” when “circumstances existing at the time of the act cause the complainant to have a reasonable fear of imminent great bodily harm”; when the attacker “is armed with a dangerous weapon”; when the attacker “causes personal injury to the complainant” — and uses force or coercion to do so.

Authorities said that they found an “orange/black/silver folding knife in the front pocket of a green backpack” inside the dorm and “located a red washcloth that was wet on the bathroom sink.”

The top charge is punishable by “not more than 30 years” upon conviction.

The defendant’s bail was reportedly set at $80,000 after appearing before a judge Tuesday. Law&Crime reached out to the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office to inquire about Labatte’s custody status. The sheriff’s office confirmed that Labatte is still in jail custody.

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by Anonymousreply 36September 14, 2023 8:32 PM

I know r29 is a troll, but women rarely commit these types of crimes.

by Anonymousreply 37September 14, 2023 8:34 PM

I wish I hadn't read that.

by Anonymousreply 38September 14, 2023 8:38 PM

His grandfather probably died of shame after seeing how fugly his grandson was

by Anonymousreply 39September 14, 2023 8:38 PM

R39 😂 😆

by Anonymousreply 40September 14, 2023 8:44 PM

What a little punk.

I'll bet he's like 5'3.

by Anonymousreply 41September 14, 2023 8:47 PM

How about waterboard him and use a broomstick afterwards.

by Anonymousreply 42September 14, 2023 8:48 PM

R42 stop it. Many here are creaming themselves.

by Anonymousreply 43September 14, 2023 8:50 PM

She sho is ugly!

by Anonymousreply 44September 14, 2023 8:55 PM

Op, she’s got that Frida Kahlo thing going with the light mustache.

by Anonymousreply 45September 14, 2023 10:33 PM

Meth?

by Anonymousreply 46September 15, 2023 1:20 AM

Dude be butt-ugly.

by Anonymousreply 47September 15, 2023 1:24 AM

Sad little struggle-stache girlfriend has.

by Anonymousreply 48September 15, 2023 2:11 AM

What do you expect it's Minnesota.

by Anonymousreply 49September 15, 2023 2:14 AM

He is deeply unattractive and therefore GUILTY.

by Anonymousreply 50September 15, 2023 2:18 AM

A previous restraining order? What did this new girl do, try to break up with him? Guys like this never change. Lock his ugly, violent ass up and leave him there.

by Anonymousreply 51September 15, 2023 3:04 AM

R50 you have a point. But I'm not convinced that that is a guy. Lots of lesbians in the Pacific Northwest have a similar look.

by Anonymousreply 52September 15, 2023 3:06 AM

Must have a king kong cock.

by Anonymousreply 53September 15, 2023 3:07 AM

Did he cum on a cone

by Anonymousreply 54September 15, 2023 3:39 AM

The worst part of this story is that he’s fug

by Anonymousreply 55September 15, 2023 3:40 AM

I think he's kind of cute.

by Anonymousreply 56September 16, 2023 2:07 AM

Then you have /really/ low standards.

by Anonymousreply 57September 16, 2023 2:28 AM

My tita did this to me in the North horizon

by Anonymousreply 58September 16, 2023 2:34 AM

Now now, R57, it may not be that low standards are R56's problem.

He could have heavy cataracts, a mysterious disease or a sudden and random fit of blindness, be reasonable.

by Anonymousreply 59September 16, 2023 3:04 AM
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