Woman, 27, was kept as a sex slave for 18 months in house boarded up and booby-trapped with electric wire

17 May, 2014 by Ashley Herzog

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This horrifying story feels like the Ariel Castro case all over again. A woman escaped from an Idaho home after being held as a sex slave for 18 months.

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The woman says she was raped, forced to smoke meth, and beaten with a hammer.

The woman managed to escape from the house last month, despite Ayala-Arizmendi rigging the home with electrical wires, chains and metal gates.

Oscar Ayala-Arizmendi was taken into custody on Tuesday and has now been charged with first-degree kidnapping and rape and possession of a controlled substance, with bail set at $1 million…Authorities searched the house near U.S. Highway 30 and reported finding chains and locks mounted to walls and floors, chains on exterior doors, a handgun, and an electrical wire system intended to shock anyone trying to escape.

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