not, gets more disturbing, i m being told that jordy and jessica tied thup little girl to make sure he didn t get out and get food or anything to drink. absolutely appalling. the situation was only discovered in october when the woman who we will only at the moment s.e. was arrested for stealing a candy bar and asked to be taken to jail in an attempt to escape captivity. reporter: i think you hit the nail on the head. investigators, the fbi believe that s exactly what happened. she eventually told police over time that someone at the house where she was living was being mean to her. then they continued to ask questions, and the flood gates just opened. she said that she was threatened with guns, threatened with attacks of numerous pit bulls in the house. they had 130-pound python there. they had supposedly a poisonous
this mom in 2011. jordie callahan and jessica hunt invited her into their home, and then according to this document, they initially put her down in the basement along with her daughter and kept her down there. mom would come up and clean and do the laundry and go shopping for them. they kept her down there and eventually moved her to an upstairs room where they actually locked the doors at night and eventually nailed the windows shut so mom and her daughter couldn t get out. scott, how did she get away? reporter: well, back in october, she was at a family dollar store, john, and she stole a candy bar. police arrested her. then she started talking to them over a period of time and basically said that people back at my house where i live, well, they re mean to me. now, remember, she has a mental
disability, so police took their time questioning her and eventually handed her over to fbi investigators. they started taking a look at it. they went back to the house and that s when everything started to unravel. had been she ever been reported missing? reporter: no, as far as we know, she wasn t reported missing. i believe at least her mom lives in ashland. occasionally, she would go back to that house and then according to witnesses in the fbi court document, jessica and jordie would send somebody back over to her mother s house and bring her back. that s bizarre. you spoke to the lawyer for one of the defendants. what did he tell you? reporter: the lawyer tells me that these allegations are ludicrous. he was ready to go to trial over these same type of charges in county court. well, those charges were dropped. then the fbi indictment came down today.
and threatened not only with weapons but also vicious animals to include pit bulls and pythons. pit bulls and pythons. the mother and child were also forced to do manual labor and three people have been arrested including jordie callahan, jessica hunt and daniel brown. outfront the u.s. attorney for the northern district of ohio. and thank you very much for taking the time to be with us. what can you tell us about the victims in this case? and obviously these allegations are horrific to contemplate. yeah, one of the things that s so troubling about this is that according to the charges, you know, the defendants took advantage of the victim s physical disability and her love for her child. the most human of all things and used that to basically hold these two people as modern-day slaves. it s very troubling. and can you tell us a little bit more about how these two, the mother and daughter, came to be held captive and what their living conditions were like. well, look, accordi
reporter: yeah, i think you re right. the fbi says that jessica hunt had all of her government assistant cards, her pin numbers and daniel brown according to documents told the fbi that they called her their bank. in other words, a street lynn go saying they could scam her out of the money, didn t give her very much of her government assistant payments and used the money for themselves. scott taylor thank you very much indeed for that report. joining me is the mother of jordy. i ll call her becky. she s joining me by telephone. welcome to you, becky. can you tell me your reaction to this shocking story? caller: well, i know, you know, how it was down there because i was there quite a bit. there is so many lies going on and mainly by detective baker here in ashland.