Mom Charged After Son Arrested In Text Message Rescue Case

Authorities say the mother of a man accused of abducting and assaulting a 14-year-old girl has been charged with helping her son elude authorities and survive in underground bunkers.
     
Vinson Filyaw was charged late last year with raping a 12-year-old girl.  He was charged this past weekend with kidnapping
and raping a 14-year-old girl.  The teen sent her mother a cell phone text message that led to her rescue Saturday.
     
The 36-year-old Filyaw was captured early Sunday and was being held at the county jail without bond.  Sheriff Stephen McCaskill says Filyaw's mother, 55-year-old Ginger Nell Cobb, had been providing her son with food and water since the 2005 arrest warrant was issued.
     
Filyaw's common-law wife, Cynthia Hall, is also charged with providing supplies to him.