Cops: Calif. corrections worker held wife captive
LODI, Calif. — A Northern California corrections worker is being held on suspicion of sexually abusing his Chinese immigrant wife and holding her captive for nearly two years.
Authorities say Michael O’Riley, 60, a social worker at a prison outside Sacramento, was arrested Thursday after his 44-year-old wife called police and reported he was threatening to kill her. The woman told police O’Riley forced her to perform sex acts, deprived her of food and took her places against her will over the last 22 months after he married her four years ago and brought her to the United States, said Cpl. Dale Eubanks, a Lodi police spokesman.
“It got to the point where she feared for her life,” he said.
When officers were near the home Thursday, the woman ran toward the patrol car and jumped through an open passenger window.
O’Riley was arrested as he was loading several firearms into his truck, Eubanks said. He was apparently carrying $23,000 in cash.
He was being held at the Lodi City Jail on suspicion of kidnapping, false imprisonment, making terrorist threats, spousal battery, various sex crimes and failure to provide for a spouse. He was expected to be arraigned Friday.
Police had been called to the home at least twice before, but officers saw no signs of abuse and the woman said she was OK, Eubanks said.
“She was under the impression that if she came forward and he went to jail, she might be deported,” he said. “She was basically misled by him.”
O’Riley worked at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove, Calif., according to police. He has been placed on administrative leave, said Sgt. Tim Curran, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, which oversees the prison.
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