Husband "allegedly" enslaved wife for 10 years, forced her to give birth twice while chained and brutally beaten!

Peter Lizon is accused of enslaving his wife Stephanie Lizon for ten years, chaining her up and beating her in a brutal catalogue of abuse.

Employees at a rental store said that 43-year-old Stephanie Lizon, from West Virginia, hid from her husband, Peter Lizon, 37, while he returned a rototiller attachment. She then went to a shelter for domestic violence victims, limping, gaunt, filthy and covered in scars, including a burn scar shaped like a clothing iron, according to police documents.

The details of the alleged abuse came out after Stephanie fled from the couple's Leroy home on July 2 in Parkersburg, which is about 50 miles north, along Interstate 77.



She entered another part of the building while her husband was inside Bosley Rental & Supply and told the staff: 'I'm trying to get away from my husband. I just need to hide for a few minutes.'

The employee declined to give her name, citing concern for her safety and that of her co-workers at the rental shop.

In an office, the wife 'seemed pretty calm but kept looking out the window to see if he was looking for her,' the employee said.

Mrs Lizon told the staff she didn't want to involve police, but she accepted the number for the domestic violence shelter and called it, the store employee said.

She also called family to ask for money, and the employees gave her cash and called a cab to take her to a Western Union office and the shelter.

The woman was limping and had appeared to have some sort of injury, the store employee said. And while her clothing was clean, she smelled bad.

The employee also told investigators that the victim's fingers looked crooked, and that Lizon's wife had told her her husband had broken her fingers.

The husband did not come inside looking for his wife and police didn't come until several days later, the employee said.

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