‘Dog used to kidnap Amish girls’

Accused ... couple Stephen Howells II and Nicole Vaisey used a dog to lure two Amish girls into their car. Picture: AP Source: AP

A COUPLE used a dog to lure two Amish sisters from their family farm stand with a plan to turn them into slaves, an investigator said.

Nicole Vaisey admitted she and her boyfriend, Stephen Howells Jr., got the sisters, seven and 12, to their car with an offer to pat the dog before pushing them in, St. Lawrence County Sherriff's Sgt. Brooks Bigwarfe said.

Bigwarfe said she told him they shackled the girls and intended to turn them into slaves.

He said the northern New York released the girls about 24 hours later, frightened by news reports.

Fowler Justice Paul Lamson ruled Thursday there's reasonable cause to believe Vaisey committed felony kidnapping. He ordered her held without bail.

Examination ... investigators search the Hermon, New York, home of Stephen Howells II and Nicole F. Vaisey. Picture: AP/Watertown Daily Times Source: AP

District Attorney Mary Rain said the children were sexually abused by the "sexual predators."

Defence attorney Bradford Riendeau said Vaisey was Howells' slave.

"She was in a master-slave relationship," Riendeau said. "I believe she's not as culpable as he is."

Howells, who also is jailed, waived his right to a hearing.

The girls' kidnappings touched off a massive search in the Amish family's remote farming community.

Searchers scoured the community of about 4,000 people but were hampered by a lack of photos of the girls.

Arrest ... deputies from the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Department escort Nicole F. Vaisey and Stephen M. Howells II to their arraignment on first-degree kidnapping charges at Fowler Town Court in Fowler, New York. Picture: AP/Watertown Daily Times Source: AP

The Amish typically avoid modern technology, and the family had to work with an artist who spoke their language, a German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, to produce a sketch of the older girl.

The parents, who have 14 children, did not express anger toward the suspects.

The girls' father said at his farm that they seemed to be doing well.

The family's farm stand was open again.

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