Lady Chained In Basement, Intercourse Trafficked and Compelled to Drink from Puddle: Police

A Milwaukee man is behind bars after two younger ladies spoke out in regards to the horrific sexual abuse they allegedly endured for years — with one claiming she was stored chained in a basement and intercourse trafficked.

David Boyd, 64, was arrested final month and charged with repeated sexual assault of a kid, bodily abuse of a kid with a harmful weapon, trafficking of a kid, and false imprisonment.

The ladies’ disturbing accounts have been detailed in a legal criticism obtained by TMJ4, The Kansas Metropolis Star and Legislation&Crime, from interviews the victims had with police after one among their foster mother and father reported the allegations to Little one Providers earlier this yr.

The primary youngster to talk with authorities was the youngest, claiming Boyd — who was courting her grand-godmother whereas the ladies lived together with her — started sexually abusing her when she was round 8 or 9, each time her relative was out of city. The alleged abuse, she stated, occurred between the years of 2020 and 2024.

Per the criticism, she stated he assaulted her “too many occasions to depend,” accusing him of additionally reducing her arms; authorities later discovered scars on her physique.

The lady stated she was additionally chained to a pole within the basement, leaving her with solely a bit of bread. For water, she needed to get it from a close-by puddle, as he allegedly left her nothing to drink. Included within the criticism was a drawing the lady drew for investigators, displaying a structure of the basement and what she allegedly went by — drawing the pole, bread, water, in addition to a stick determine labeled “me.”

Authorities, in the meantime, discovered hooked chains hanging from the basement ceiling, in addition to a bit of bread on the bottom.

The lady instructed police she was trafficked to not less than six completely different males for cash and likewise claimed Boyd had assaulted her older sister and one other relative.

When interviewed, the opposite sister stated he sexually assaulted her between the years of 2015 and 2022, from the ages of 5 to 12. It stopped when she moved out of the house, she stated.

Police reportedly searched the house on April 16, with images of the basement included above. Whereas Boyd allegedly denied the ladies had been within the basement, investigators confirmed him the drawing from one of many ladies — with authorities noting he then “instantly jumped up (and) said he wanted to make use of the toilet.”

Boyd is at present being held on $100,000 bond and is due again in court docket for a preliminary listening to on Might 7.

In case you are experiencing or witness youngster abuse, name the Childhelp Nationwide Little one Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Little one or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. For those who consider a baby is in instant hazard, name 911.

The Nationwide Sexual Assault Phone Hotline — 800.656.HOPE (4673) — supplies free, 24/7 help for these in want.