A 15-year-old girl told police that a man lured her from the Multnomah County Central Library in downtown Portland to a hotel, where he repeatedly raped her, according to court records.

On Saturday, a witness called police after seeing the girl appearing to be distraught in the downtown area, and when police questioned her, she said she had escaped her captor.

Court records state that she told him she was 15, and he replied, 'No one has to know.'

She said the man had returned her to the library that day, and she was able to escape after saying she had to go to the bathroom.

Police went to the library and identified a suspect as 23-year-old Nicholas Matthew Tull.

The girl was a runaway and said she met Tull at the library three days earlier, where he offered to give her shelter in

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