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Mom of American in Bahamas sex attack says daughter texted, ‘We’ve been raped’

Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson

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EXCLUSIVE – The mother of one of the women allegedly raped at a Bahamas resort said she knew “something was not quite right” about two hours before her daughter sent a text that stopped her heart.

“Call us now we’ve been drugged and raped,” Dongayla Dobson texted her mom, Frankie King, who spoke to Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.

“They were on a live video that they just posted or something. They were like falling all over the place,” King said. “They don’t drink a lot, but I’ve seen both of those girls drunk. I knew there was something else going on. Like something’s not quite right, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.”

That was around 9:30 to 10 a.m. Feb. 1, the day her daughter and best friend since fourth grade, Amber Shearer, were allegedly drugged with a laced cocktail and attacked. Two hours later, King received the bone-chilling text. 

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Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson, two Kentucky moms who were allegedly sexually assaulted during their vacation to the Bahamas.  (Amber Nicole Shearer/Facebook)

“It’s a parent’s worst nightmare,” King said. “Your child is in trouble, in danger and scared, and they’re 300, 500 miles away, or whatever, across the water, and I can’t get to them.”

A resort housekeeper found Shearer and Dobson unconscious in a bathroom of the Pirate’s Cove resort on Grand Bahama Island, King said. 

A nurse practioner helped saved the women’s lives, documented their injuries and has been checking up on them daily since their return to their home in Kentucky, the doting mom said. 

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But service was shoddy. It was difficult for King, her wife and their son-in-law to fully understand what was happening or when they were returning to the port in Jacksonville. And both women have children between the ages of 4 and 17. 

They all waited over 24 hours before the survivors were reunited with their families. 

“I never imagined how traumatized they actually were until I saw them at…

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