A Texas man allegedly held his girlfriend hostage to abuse her for a minimum of six months at his residence, the place he bolted down the home windows and locked the entrance door from the skin to stop her from escaping, based on police and the sufferer’s household.
Kenneth Leon Wright, 41, threatened to kill his girlfriend if she ever tried to go away the boarded-up residence in Houston, investigators revealed as Wright appeared in courtroom Saturday, KHOU reported.
Wright would punch her within the face if she tried to go away — as he did simply two days earlier than he was lastly arrested on Friday, prosecutors advised the decide.
And though Wright would on uncommon events take the girlfriend to her mom’s home, he would be sure that her household by no means realized the place he was conserving her, and would dangle up the cellphone in the event that they tried to name, the lady’s sister, Shenita Carter, advised ABC13.
Nevertheless, the girlfriend ultimately managed to sneak a name by means of to her family members, and her mother was in a position to monitor down the deal with and name for a welfare verify.
Her sister lastly acquired to see the circumstances she’d been stored in as soon as police arrested Wright on Friday.
“The home windows have nails in them,” she advised ABC 13, whereas additionally mentioning how the door was locked from the skin and the home windows boarded up with plywood.
“[It’s] disgusting and unhappy the truth that that is how she had been dwelling,” Carter stated.
Wright is charged with aggressive kidnapping and assault of a family member, based on jail data.
He’s being held on a $225,000 bail on the Harris County Jail and is due again in courtroom on Sept. 24.
Carter acknowledged that Wright, a landscaper, was paying for her sister’s lease and meals — however stated that doesn’t excuse the prison-like dwelling state of affairs and abuse she endured.
When an ABC13 reporter knocked on the residence, a lady claiming to be Wright’s present girlfriend answered.
She denied he’d been holding his ex in opposition to her will, insisting he was simply taking good care of her.
The Harris County District Lawyer’s Workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for more information.
