She declined and, according to prosecutors, only managed to escape being abducted because a police car scared Bellfield away.
Protests are also staged again in towns and cities across Nigeria. 2 May: Nigerian police say militants are holding 223 girls, after 53 of the initial 276 girls who were abducted managed to escape.
The journalists and locals who had gathered all managed to escape, but attackers abducted 13 to 20 more students along the side streets.
Another police officer said initial information suggested that the kidnappers managed to flee with the abducted hunters into a desert area near the southern province of Nassiriya, 185 miles south of Baghdad.
One day two men tried to abduct me, but I managed to escape.
He claimed that he was abducted and managed to escape.
New details of how the women were abducted, imprisoned and managed to endure emerged in a sentencing memo, and at the four-hour hearing on Thursday, which was shown live by cable television, reflecting the worldwide attention the case has drawn.
The traumatized 15-year-old could barely speak, but managed to convey that she'd been abducted and raped by a group of white men who had kept her out in the woods in freezing temperatures.
In April, a third Minnesota woman, Edith Chavez, was abducted in North Dakota, but managed to escape.
The 29-year-old was abducted by the LRA aged 11, but managed to escape.
