A man rescued a pregnant woman after a car accident and carried her in his arms to the hospital, but the very next day the police showed up at his door accusing him of kidnapping 

A serious accident had occurred on the highway: a truck braked sharply, and the car in which an eight-months-pregnant woman was riding couldn’t swerve in time and crashed into it. The impact hit the hood directly — the airbag deployed and pinned the woman to the seat.

The truck driver was barely injured and immediately jumped out. He heard her scream, looked inside the car and saw that the woman was gasping for air, holding her stomach. Her face was pale, her hands trembling, the seatbelt pressed deeply into her body.

He pulled the woman out of the wrecked car and immediately called an ambulance.

— There’s been a serious accident on the highway… the woman is pregnant, she’s in bad condition, hurry!

— The team is already on the way, but there’s heavy traffic… at least thirty minutes, — they replied.

The woman groaned in pain, holding her belly, her breathing uneven. The man realized they couldn’t wait. So he decided to walk towards the ambulance himself.

He walked fast, almost running despite the weight. The woman groaned, clung to his shoulders, cried.

Finally, the man saw the ambulance lights cutting through the traffic. He ran up to the vehicle, handed the woman over to the medics and told them everything he knew.

The doctors took her away, and he remained standing in the middle of the road, breathing heavily from exhaustion and shock. He thought that was the end of it.

He had saved two lives. The mother’s and the baby’s.

But the very next day the police knocked on his door.

— You are being accused of kidnapping a pregnant woman, — an officer said. — Do you have anything to say?

The man froze.

— Kidnapping? I saved her! What are you talking about?

And that’s when he learned something terrible  Continued in the first comment 

The officer showed him the complaint filed by the woman’s husband. It stated that an unknown man had “taken advantage of the accident, grabbed the woman and carried her away in an unknown direction.”

The man felt a cold shiver run down his spine.

— Wait… why does her husband think I kidnapped her?

The police didn’t even allow him to get properly dressed. They escorted him out of his apartment in handcuffs under the shocked looks of his neighbors. He kept repeating:

— I didn’t kidnap anyone. I saved her. Check the footage from the highway! Talk to the doctors!

But the officers responded coldly:

— The complaint was filed by her husband. For now, you are the only suspect.

The man spent the night in a cell and then several more days in detention. No one believed him. In the eyes of the police, he was the man who “took a pregnant woman away in an unknown direction.”

Meanwhile, the truth began to emerge.

Investigators finally discovered what had really happened: the husband was a tyrant. He beat his wife, controlled her every step, took her documents and forbade her from telling anyone what was happening at home.

That day she was trying to escape him for good. She was on her way to a friend’s house where she planned to hide, but she never made it — the accident happened.

When the husband learned she was in the hospital, he immediately filed the “kidnapping” report to shift attention away from himself and get her back while the police were busy searching for a “criminal.” And the real kidnapper was him.

The driver was released. He walked out of the detention center exhausted, his eyes red, barely able to believe that everything was finally over.