DesideriScuri
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl Woman held as slave by central Ohio trio, according to federal labor-trafficking charges CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A mentally disabled woman and her child were held captive for two years by three people in the central Ohio community of Ashland, according to federal labor-trafficking charges announced today. The woman and her child were forced to live in a basement with pit bulls and pythons, according to the charges released at a news conference by Steven Dettelbach, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Dettelbach said the woman was beaten, threatened and forced into slavery. Some of the threats included telling the woman she would be attacked by the animals. "These individuals preyed upon a human being with a disability," Dettelbach said. "They treated her worse than the animals in that house." Named in the charges are Jordie Callahan, 26, Jessica Hunt, 31, and Daniel J. Brown, 33, all from Ashland. Court records indicate that a fourth person has been charged. Dettelbach's office declined comment today on why that person was not named in today's announcement. Officials said the woman managed to free herself last October by stealing a candy bar so she would be arrested. Ashland County authorities charged Callahan and Hunt with complicity, abduction, two counts of kidnapping and two counts of extortion. Callahan was also charged with three counts of illegally possessing a weapon. The state charges against them were filed in January and dismissed today because of the pending federal case. The Justice Department has declined to prosecute Ariel Castro, who is facing similar charges in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Castro is accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for more than a decade. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/06/ashland_couple_charged_with_hu.html Ohio, esp. Toledo, has ties to sex slave trafficking. Even worse, it's usually child sex slaves. From a quick search, Toledo is in the top 5 for largest cities in the US for child sex slave trafficking. It's not the water, else there would be more. I simply can not understand the mindset of people who do that.
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What I support: - A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
- Personal Responsibility
- Help for the truly needy
- Limited Government
- Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
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