https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/01/05/man-accused-of-kidnapping-woman-holding-her-against-will-for-4-5-years-at-se-houston-home/

According to court documents, officers responded on April 7, 2023, to a home located in the 5200 block of Perry Street in southeast Houston for a kidnapping in progress. When they arrived, they heard a woman’s voice coming from a window of the home. Officers began to speak to the woman who told them about four or five years before she was pregnant and panhandling off Almeda Genoa. At that time, the suspect, identified as Lee Carter, pulled over to give the woman a dollar.

The court documents said Carter asked the woman if she needed help. The woman said she needed help and Carter said he would help her and told her to get in his car. The woman got in his car and he drove to his home on Perry Street where the woman said he had been holding her against her will for the past 4-5 years.

The documents said the woman told police Carter repeatedly forced her to have sex with him, forced her to take drugs, and prevented her from leaving the house by locking her inside a garage. The woman said she did not have a shower in the garage, so from time to time, Carter would allow her to leave the room to shower.

The woman said she never saw anyone else in the home while she was kept there, but could hear Carter arguing with other women while she showered. She said on numerous occasions, when Carter would take her from the garage to the home, she attempted to run away and escape. Each time, Carter would run after her, grab her, and return her to the garage and lock her inside again.