Nail clippers used to free bound woman after 5 days of sex assaults

A hero Canadian dog walker was able to save a bound, nearly naked woman from her armed attacker after he freed the woman by using nail clippers to cut through the bindings made of cloth and tape, authorities say.
The 27-year-old sex worker was able to escape her snoozing captor’s Toronto home Easter Sunday morning after five days of horror, during which she was subjected to bizarre, ritualistic sexual assaults at the hands of 43-year-old Rejean Hermel Perron, police say.
The disturbing crime may have ended differently if not for Peter Hamilton, who happened to be walking his 4-month-old yellow Labrador retriever puppy down the street in the Leslieville neighborhood when he heard the victim’s distraught cries of, “Help me, help me please.”
"Without having that dog, I wouldn't have taken a walk through the neighborhood,".
Hamilton found the nearly naked woman out on the home’s porch, having wriggled down the stairs without waking the sleeping Perron, who was armed with a gun and knife.
The woman had been handcuffed and had crude bindings on her arms and legs. Bruises covered much of her body.
"She had managed to get to the door,". "She said, 'I've been kidnapped and I've been held for five days in this house.' My first thought was 'How do I get her out of here?'"
Hamilton had not brought his cell phone for the short jaunt and had only a pair of nail clippers in his pocket. He used the tool to tear through the bindings, trying to comfort the terrified woman as best he could.
"I knew this was a dangerous situation," Hamilton told the CBC. "I couldn't leave her, but I could not go back to my house to get my phone."
The commotion apparently woke Perron, who came to the front door and stared at the two people on his front porch.
"This is where it could have taken a turn for the worse,". "He came out and he ran. He saw us and he just ran and that was a very good thing."
Cops were later able to catch up with Perron, who remains jailed on a charges of sex assault with a weapon, kidnapping, forcible confinement and assault.
The suspect has spent the last decade in Toronto but previously lived in other towns, cops said. Authorities fear he may have more victims and specifically preyed on sex workers.
The humble Hamilton, for his part, says he did what any person would.
“It's just the right thing to do,". "We live in a society where sometimes people turn a blind eye to what's going on around them."