Jordie Callahan, 27, seen here with one of his many pets, was convicted of forced labor, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and conspiracy to illegally obtain prescription drugs
A man in Ohio has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after keeping a mentally disabled woman and her five year old daughter in ‘modern slavery’, forcing the pair to live in a snake pit for nearly two years.
According to the Daily Mail, Jordie Callahan and his girlfriend Jessica Hunt kept Shannon Eckly and her five year old daughter locked-up in their Ashland, Ohio, apartment, where they controlled ever aspect of their lives.
Threats: The suspects are accused of threatening to make their snakes and their pit bulls attack Eckley and her daughter if she didn’t do their bidding
The mother and daughter were forced to live in a dark, dank basement with no toilet.
Callahan and Hunt used a variety of terrifying pets to keep their two victims in line, including a poisonous coral snake, a Burmese python that weighed 130 pounds, lizards, spiders, scorpions and ‘numerous’ dogs – including pit bulls, authorities say.
Callahan also forced Eckly to beat her daughter, so he could record it and use the abuse as leverage against her. He also made her perform sex acts with him.
For nearly two years, 27-year-old Jordie Callahan and his girlfriend Jessica Hunt, 32, kept Shannon Eckley and her daughter locked up in their squalid Ashland, Ohio, apartment, federal prosecutors say.
The mentally disabled mother only managed to escape by getting arrested shoplifting, telling the cops she wanted to go to jail because people had been mean to her.
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