Sheriff: Rape victim used flip phone to orchestrate escape

Sheriff: Rape victim used flip phone to orchestrate escape

A forgotten flip phone is being credited with saving a 16-year-old West Odessa girl from a relative she says kept her captive, forced her to use methamphetamine and made her submit to sex acts for nearly a year. Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis said the girl found the phone buried inside a home on West 16th Street that has been compared to a landfill by deputies, and called 9-1-1. Her alleged abuser, Thomas Benjamin Lozano, 42, is now facing si…