Freaky.
This is a report from CNN.com:
Prosecutor: Trio used bat, knife, belt on shackled teen
SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- The three alleged abusers of a 17-year-old teen, who escaped captivity with a shackle on his ankle, tortured him with a bat, knife and belt, court documents released Thursday contend.
A 14-page criminal complaint adds more chilling details to the bizarre tale that shocked the central California city of Tracy.
The teen escaped a year of captivity Monday and walked into a fitness center in Tracy, bruised and battered, wearing only boxer shorts and with his bloody ankle shackled, police said.
Police arrested Caren Ramirez, 43; Kelly Layne Lau, 30; and her husband, Michael Luther Schumacher, 34, in the case. Lau and Ramirez did not enter pleas as they made their first court appearances Thursday. Bail was set at $ 2.2 million each, a court official said.
Ramirez is scheduled to appear in court at a later date, the official said.
The judge also issued a gag order for people connected to the case, Tracy police said.
Authorities this week have been trying to piece together how the teen ended up shackled in the home of Lau and Schumacher in Tracy, about 70 miles east of San Francisco. Watch how the strange case unfolded »
The teen was being held at the couple's home, about 500 feet from the fitness center, and he apparently was able to get over a wall and onto the center's property, police said Wednesday.
Lea Leonardo, assistant manager of the center, said the boy came into the facility and begged her to hide him.
"He was very dirty. He looked very young, very skinny and was wearing nothing but men's oversized boxers," Leonardo told CNN's Nancy Grace. "He was terrified."
She said she was shocked to see the chain on the boy's ankle and that his foot was swollen. She said she hid the child and called 911.
The boy initially had been removed from his parents' custody in Sacramento, California, by social workers because of abuse and was placed with Ramirez. Police earlier had said that Ramirez was the teen's aunt, but now say she is a family friend.
The teen was sent to a group home after Ramirez was charged with felony abuse against him, police said. He escaped the group home about 18 months ago.
Authorities believe the boy returned to Ramirez, but aren't sure when or why, said police, who also were trying to figure out the connection between Ramirez, Lau and Schumacher.
Prosecutor: Trio used bat, knife, belt on shackled teen
SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- The three alleged abusers of a 17-year-old teen, who escaped captivity with a shackle on his ankle, tortured him with a bat, knife and belt, court documents released Thursday contend.
A 14-page criminal complaint adds more chilling details to the bizarre tale that shocked the central California city of Tracy.
The teen escaped a year of captivity Monday and walked into a fitness center in Tracy, bruised and battered, wearing only boxer shorts and with his bloody ankle shackled, police said.
Police arrested Caren Ramirez, 43; Kelly Layne Lau, 30; and her husband, Michael Luther Schumacher, 34, in the case. Lau and Ramirez did not enter pleas as they made their first court appearances Thursday. Bail was set at $ 2.2 million each, a court official said.
Ramirez is scheduled to appear in court at a later date, the official said.
The judge also issued a gag order for people connected to the case, Tracy police said.
Authorities this week have been trying to piece together how the teen ended up shackled in the home of Lau and Schumacher in Tracy, about 70 miles east of San Francisco. Watch how the strange case unfolded »
The teen was being held at the couple's home, about 500 feet from the fitness center, and he apparently was able to get over a wall and onto the center's property, police said Wednesday.
Lea Leonardo, assistant manager of the center, said the boy came into the facility and begged her to hide him.
"He was very dirty. He looked very young, very skinny and was wearing nothing but men's oversized boxers," Leonardo told CNN's Nancy Grace. "He was terrified."
She said she was shocked to see the chain on the boy's ankle and that his foot was swollen. She said she hid the child and called 911.
The boy initially had been removed from his parents' custody in Sacramento, California, by social workers because of abuse and was placed with Ramirez. Police earlier had said that Ramirez was the teen's aunt, but now say she is a family friend.
The teen was sent to a group home after Ramirez was charged with felony abuse against him, police said. He escaped the group home about 18 months ago.
Authorities believe the boy returned to Ramirez, but aren't sure when or why, said police, who also were trying to figure out the connection between Ramirez, Lau and Schumacher.
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