Ind. — (NBC News) Prosecutors formally charged an Indiana couple on Monday with kidnapping a woman, locking her in a small wooden cage meant for a dog and making her a sex slave for two months.
The couple, Ricky Roy House Jr., 37, and Kendra Tooley, 44, were charged with rape, kidnapping and other counts. A judge set bond at $500,000 for the man and $150,000 for the woman, WFIE, the NBC affiliate in Evansville, reported. Both were returned to jail.
The woman apparently escaped over the weekend with the help of Tooleys ex-husband, who was visiting the couples trailer home and said that the woman privately begged him to get her out.
Court papers provided to NBC News by the county prosecutor, Travis Clowers, laid out in chilling detail the nature of the womans alleged confinement, which authorities said began when House spotted the woman on a street and offered her a ride.
The woman told police that she knew the couple, and agreed that night to go to the trailer. But when she got up to leave, she said, House put chloroform over her mouth and nose and knocked her out.
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