TOLEDO (AP) — Police in northwest Ohio say they found leg irons in a basement where a 13-year-old girl says relatives kept her shackled as punishment.
Authorities say the girl used a spare key to escape Wednesday night and was found more than a mile away in Toledo.
Officers say a man and his 27-year-old son who were taken into custody early Thursday were apparently trying to flee when they were spotted leaving the home in a van.
Police records say they had two younger children and a gun with them in the van.
Court documents say the girl told investigators she was shackled to a support beam in the basement as punishment and forced to sleep there.
She says it had been going on at different times for a year.
This story has been corrected to show the girl was found a mile away, not at a nearby home.