Woman Reportedly Kept as Sex Slave

Here's a horrible story out of western Missouri.

Prosecutors say a young woman was kept as a sex slave for five years in Lebanon, Mo., and only got official help after one suspect electrocuted and suffocated her. She went into cardiac arrest and, thus, had to be hospitalized.

Five men face charges. Two are from Lebanon, one is from Springfield, one is from St. Louis and the last is from Wheatland.

The young woman is now in her early 20s. She was 16 and a runaway when Edward Bagley Sr. allegedly let her live in his trailer home in December 2002. The young woman suffers from "mental deficiencies" and grew up in the foster-care system, prosecutors say.

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