Nurse helping Americans in alleged Bahamas attack was ‘scared’ by what she saw: ‘Could’ve been my daughters’

 A vacationing nurse who came to the aid of two American women who complained of sexual assault at a Bahamas resort said the scene she encountered was "enough to scare me."

LaDonna Batty was at the Drink Shack with her husband when "someone ran around the corner yelling, 'Can you help? Can you help?'" said Batty, who was taken to the resort's front office. .

Inside, Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson's bathing suits were torn and "out of place," he said. The lifelong friend left crying, vomiting and unconscious with bruises, an Arkansas nurse told Fox News Digital during a Zoom interview from her clinic on Wednesday.

After Shearer said she was raped and continued to repeat it, Batty said: "I have no doubt about what happened. These girls were attacked and hurt. ... I can say I knew this was a bad situation, and it was going to have a very bad effect very quickly."

Batty did not know either of the women. When he treated them, they were "Girl One (Dobson) and Girl Two (Shearer)." It was a complete coincidence that Batty was on the same cruise and went on the same excursion to the Pirates Cove resort on Grand Bahama Island.

It was here that Shearer and Dobson, lifelong friends from Kentucky, were allegedly given drugged cocktails and attacked by two resort staff members, who were later fired and arrested.

Dobson's mother Frankie King told Fox News Digital in a previous interview that the women were found unconscious in the bathroom and received a heartbreaking message: "Call us right now, we've been drugged and raped "

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None of the survivors remember anything nor how they reached the resort's front office. That's when Batty entered the picture.

"Just looking at him I knew something had happened to him," Batty said. "I could tell he was attacked in some way."

He didn't have a lot of equipment to work with, but he examined their vital organs and documented their bruises and injuries, among which he discovered that their legs were covered. According to the nurse, Shearer was a little more cautious than Dobson, trying to obtain as much information as possible for her treatment.

While treating them, Batty said he watched surveillance footage, which resort staff were reviewing to find the suspected assailant, which they did and brought him to the front office so the women could identify him as their alleged assailant.

“It just intensified after seeing him,” Batty said. "They were scared. They immediately started crying and crying louder and scared. When they took him into the room they were shaking even more."

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The Bahamian resort, called Pirates Cove in Freeport, denied Shearer and Dobson's allegations in a statement, and claimed the women's allegations "conflict" with 16 "time-stamped surveillance videos" from the resort.

Batty saw the comments and retracted it.

"I don't know why they're twisting their story," he said. "But I have no disbelief about what happened to them."

“When I walked into that room – and this is all I can say about what I saw in person – the way they looked and the way they acted, I knew something had happened . . . They had been attacked in some way or another. They were in a complete state of disrepair. . . .

The Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a February 4 statement that they had arrested two men, aged 54 and 40, in connection with the alleged sexual assaults. Their names were not released.

Batty saw only one suspect and said his presence left the women shaken and crying. His emotions increased.

But the suspect didn't seem to mind: "When they brought him in and he saw the women he didn't seem bothered at all," she said.

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After the survivors jumped back and screamed in shock, he was carried outside, where he sat on a veranda, "leaning back in a chair and playing on his cellphone," Batty said, as he Imitating someone scrolling lazily on their phone.

"He was waiting there like it was no big deal," she said.

Pirates Cove said in a statement that both staff members were fired for "violating (the resort's) zero-tolerance policy" on fraternizing with guests.

The resort acknowledged the serious allegations and confirmed that the Royal Bahamas Police Force is leading a criminal investigation in conjunction with the FBI.

But the resort's official statement attempted to dismiss the women's allegations and turned the surveillance video over to law enforcement.

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Batty said, even without knowing the women's names, the case became personal for him.

He tried to find them the next day but could not find them. Dobson's mother said it was a miracle that he met her at the airport in Florida after the cruise docked.

Both of them said that Batty pressured them to find Dobson and Shearer so that he could check on them personally.

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"He saved all that information. He took notes and took care of them as if they were patients who came into his office," King said.

“She was very nice, and once we met her at the airport, she made sure they had all her information. She called them every day or texted them to see how they were doing.” Are."

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'I don't want to say I saved them... I just did what I normally do.'

King praised Batty as a hero and during a separate interview he could not thank him enough.

Batty said she "didn't save them" and shrugged it off as "just doing what I normally do" as a nurse.

"I have three daughters, and all I could think was that these could have been my daughters, and I hope someone would help them," Batty said. "Those girls are someone's mother, someone's girlfriend, someone's wife, someone's sister, and someone did something to them."

Fox News Digital's Emily Robertson contributed to this report.