Woman held captive for six months

Facing kidnapping charges...Jason Greniger allegedly kept his girlfriend captive in a motel room for six months. Picture: AP/Mesquite Nevada Police Department Source: AP

A WOMAN held captive by her boyfriend for six months was freed after posting a desperate plea to Facebook.

Sheena Herschbach was held against her will at a motel in Mesquite, Nevada by her boyfriend Jason Greniger for six months, said Mesquite police Detective Sergeant MaQuade Chesley.

Greniger was arrested on Saturday after Herschbach managed to get to the public library and post a message to Facebook.

"I just want to let everyone one know I'm sarry I whant to come home but he won't let me yes Jason don't knoe im online in desquet novata at the mv motel," she wrote, reports the Las Vegas Sun.

A friend who saw the message reported it to Mesquite police, who rescued Herschbach and arrested her boyfriend on Saturday.

Greniger and is being held on suspicion of kidnapping and an outstanding child abuse charge, reports NBC News.

Police say Hershbach was not physically restrained, but that Greniger threatened to kill her and her family if she left. She was sometimes let out of the motel room to fetch beer and food, police say.

"She had opportunities to contact police, it just took her six months to get the courage to do it," said Mr Chesley.

"She legitimately believed that he would kill her, hurt her or hurt her family if she didn't stay with him."

Herschbach had not had any contact with her family or children for six months, and only learned after being freed that her mother had died last month.

Speaking to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Hershbach told how she gathered the will to finally break free of Greniger, who she said was physically abusive for years.

"He finally pushed me for the last time," she said.

"I just said the heck with it. I went to the library, went online and talked to my sister."

The couple began dating in 2009, but broke up after he began domestically abusing her, Hershbach said.

Greniger pleaded guilty to child abuse charges in 2013, stemming from his abuse of their three children who are now in foster care, said Hershbach. She took out a restraining order against him in 2012 and moved to California, but Greniger followed her and convinced her to take him back.

When she tried to leave him again, Greniger threatned to kill her and her family and began keeping her captive at the MV motel in Mesquite, Herschbach told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

He watched her constantly, never left her alone, and often hit her, she said.

"He thought we were together," she said. "If I said anything, he threatened to hurt me, so I didn't for a long time."

 

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