Updated: July 07, 2017

A FLORENCE, ALABAMA WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING AND TORTURING A WOMAN LAST YEAR. ACCORDING TO THE TIMES DAILY, THE LAUDERDALE COUNTY GRAND JURY RECENTLY RETURNED AN INDICTMENT FOR 31 YEAR-OLD APRIL LYNN JOHNSON ON CHARGES OF SEXUAL TORTURE AND FIRST DEGREE SEXUAL ABUSE. AUTHORITIES INDICATE JOHNSON ALLEGEDLY LURED THE VICTIM TO HER HOME IN JULY 2016 WHEN THE SUSPECT LEARNED THE TWO WOMEN WERE DATING THE SAME MAN. JOHNSON ALLEGEDLY PULLED A GUN ON THE VICTIM AND FORCED HER INSIDE THE RESIDENCE WHERE SHE KEPT HER FOR SEVERAL HOURS. JOHNSON THEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER. POLICE INDICATED THE VICTIM PRETENDED TO BE INJURED AND IN NEED OF MEDICAL ATTENTION AND JOHNSON ALLOWED HER TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE THE VICTIM CONTACTED AUTHORITIES. FIRST DEGREE SEXUAL ABUSE IS A CLASS-C FELONY PUNISHABLE BY ONE TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON. SEXUAL TORTURE IS A CLASS-A FELONY WITH A SENTENCE OF TEN YEARS TO LIFE IF CONVICTED. JOHNSON IS BEING HELD IN THE LAUDERDALE COUNTY JAIL ON $26,000 BOND.