"Captor pleads guilty to threats, abuse" Associated Press, November 23, 2013
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — An Ohio woman accused of using ice cream to lure a mentally disabled woman and her child to captivity pleaded guilty Friday in a forced-labor case....
The FBI affidavit said Dezerah Silsby, 21, smashed the woman’s hand with a rock so she could go to a hospital and bring back pain medication for the suspects.
The suspects forced the woman to cooperate by threats and physical abuse, federal prosecutors said. The woman told authorities she was made to do housework by the suspects, who she said raided her bank account and menaced her with snakes and pit bulls.
The woman and her daughter, who was 5, were freed after police investigated an abuse allegation one of the suspects made against her.
That kind of backfired, huh?
Authorities said the abuse allegation was a ruse, complete with a video staged by the suspects.
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