Disabled Woman Finally Rescued After Being Held Captive By Husband For 5 Years In $1 Million Home They Shared With Children, Cops Say

For 5 years, a abnormal female was kept locked wrong a chamber of nan $1 cardinal Houston location she shared pinch her hubby and children – surviving connected arsenic small arsenic a azygous ovum a day, authorities said.

The unfortunate was yet rescued Friday greeting only aft her hubby James Earl Johnson accidentally near his telephone connected a nightstand, giving her a chance to telephone 911. But nan hopeless telephone was trim short.

Johnson reportedly slapped his wife, carried her backmost to furniture and disconnected her telephone pinch nan 911 dispatcher earlier constabulary could intervene, according to Harris County criminal tribunal documents.

Johnson, 46, was arrested Friday and charged pinch wounded to a abnormal individual and abandoning aliases endangering a child, aged individual aliases abnormal individual.

Investigators discovered nan unfortunate had nary entree to a phone, regular aliases accordant food, aliases capable aesculapian care, according to a probable origin bid obtained by The Independent. Investigators allege Johnson near her conscionable 1 ovum a time and occasionally brought her dinner.

Her big boy told KTRK that she remained hospitalized Monday but did not springiness further specifications connected her information aliases nan quality of her disability.

It’s unclear if nan big boy knew astir nan alleged abuse, but neighbors were reportedly unaware nan female was being held captive wrong nan 6,783-square-foot mansion, nan Daily Mail reported.

But according to tribunal documents, nan female had reportedly tried to alert authorities successful nan past.

On November 16, constabulary were called to nan home, but erstwhile they arrived, nan female told them she and her children had been instructed to enactment quiet and not speak to police. Officers near without filing a report.

Court records besides show nan unfortunate antecedently revenge cases against Johnson successful Harris County family tribunal successful 2001 and 2002 seeking kid support, though nan outcomes of those filings stay sealed.

Johnson, who useful arsenic a full-time maestro electrician earning astir $18,000 per month, purchased nan five-bedroom, eight-bathroom location successful 2015 and had lived location pinch his woman for astatine slightest six years, according to region spot records.

Johnson was released from jailhouse connected a $50,000 enslaved and ordered to enactment distant from nan unfortunate and their location connected Crown Ridge Court successful Clear Lake, tribunal records show. If convicted, Johnson could look up to 20 years successful situation and fines of up to $10,000. He is owed backmost successful tribunal connected March 18.