YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) – Prosecutors say an Ashland woman has been sentenced to 32 years in federal prison for enslaving a mentally disabled woman through threats and intimidation.
A judge in Youngstown sentenced Jessica Hunt, 33, on Thursday. Messages were left for her attorneys.
A jury convicted Hunt and her boyfriend of forced labor, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and conspiracy to illegally obtain prescription drugs.
Jordie Callahan, 28, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison.
Prosecutors say they kept the woman and her young daughter captive for nearly two years and threatened to harm the girl if the woman refused to do chores.
The couple’s attorneys have been seeking a new trial and argued the government’s trial witnesses were unreliable.