By . Louise Boyle and Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 23:00 EST, 23 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 23:57 EST, 24 August 2012 . A teenager held as a captive sex slave in a house for more than three years before escaping with a relative's help initially went there voluntarily but wasn't allowed to leave when she wanted to go home, an Illinois police chief said on Friday. Washington Park Police Chief David Clark said the 19-year-old St. Louis woman bolted from the home on Monday and told investigators her time in captivity included almost daily beatings and sexual assaults. One of those attacks resulted in a now-2-year-old boy rescued when a police SWAT team raided the home next to a gas station on Thursday and arrested a 25-year-old man and his mother, Clark said. Saved: The teenager's baby is carried away by the SWAT team after it was rescued from the home in Illinois . Horrific abuse: The teenager told police she escaped her daily torment earlier this week with a relative's help . According to Washington Park police, the woman claims she was held . against her will for more than 2 years as a sex slave at the house on . Kingshighway by the 25-year-old man and his family. A boy, aged 16, was also removed from the home in his school uniform, according to BND.com. The police chief said the three days between the teen's report and the raid on the home was largely spent substantiating her story. Clark also said investigators were working a separate sexual-assault case and lacked the manpower to go any faster. No charges have been filed in the case. Clark wouldn't publicly identify the suspect - originally reported as 17-years old - his mother or the teenager, citing the ongoing investigation. He said investigators planned to have the child's DNA tested to determine whether the man is his father. St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly, the county's top prosecutor, told The Associated Press on Friday that conditions in the home were 'definitely deplorable.' Initial evidence suggests that 'some of the details are consistent with what the young lady is saying, and I think there's something to it.' he said. 'We're still trying to figure out what the heck is going on.' Hideaway: A man passes outside the home where the 19-year-old St. Louis woman claims she was held captive for more than three years before managing to escape on Monday . Aided kidnapping: The young woman told police that the mother of the 25-year-old man arrested helped her falsify her name during child birth two years ago to prevent her rescue . Baby: A baby stroller rests alongside the home where the young woman claims having given birth to her kidnapper's child . Clark said the teenager met the man socially 'through someone else when they were partying, and a relationship built,' eventually leading to her visit of his home about the time she was reported missing. 'When she (soon) decided to go back to her parents, he wouldn't allow it,' Clark said. She was listed as a missing . or runaway juvenile on April 6, 2010 in St Louis, Missouri, close to . the state line. She was 15 years old when she disappeared. He said the man's mother helped detain the young woman and helped falsify medical records when she bore her son in the first year of her captivity. The teen told investigators the man and his mother coerced her into using a false name when giving birth to conceal that she was under-aged, Clark said. The young woman has told police she repeatedly tried to escape the house, which is on Washington Park's busiest street and next door to a convenience store, just a half mile from a freeway. But her captor chased her down each time and forced her back to the home at gunpoint, Clark said. Conditions: The home was described by police to have been in deplorable conditions, with six mattresses seen stacked in its backyard . Captivity: Local children look on as SWAT teams swarm the home in Washington Park, Illinois, next to a Mobil garage, where the woman said she was held for more than two years and repeatedly raped . Dramatic raid: Heavily-armed officers swarmed the home yesterday afternoon with their assault rifles drawn . Washington Park is a village of 4,200 people tucked on the edge of East St. Louis in one of Illinois' poorest regions. Known for its strip clubs and poverty, the community has grappled for years with corruption and violent crime punctuated by the 2010 shooting death of the village's mayor, John Thornton. The village twice has filed for bankruptcy since 2004, the last time in 2009. Neighbors told The Associated Press they had little reason to suspect anything amiss at the one-story bungalow on a parcel cluttered with trash, including a stack of six mildewing mattresses on a concrete slab surrounded by tall weeds. A child's car seat, baby stroller and car tires were nearby. A neighbor, Lakeitha Smith, opened her front door a crack and told the AP that during the few times she saw the young woman outside, the teenager didn't appear bruised or traumatized. Smith said the man would step away from the home at times with the toddler, who 'looked like a healthy baby,' and often came to Smith's house, where he played with her 3-year-old son. Rescue: A baby was taken from the home in Washington Park, Illinois where his mother had been held captive . Disappearance: The 19-year-old has been described as missing or a runaway by police since 2010 . 'They was like normal people,' Smith said. 'I really didn't know what was going on over there. I never knew it was something like that.' 'I used to see her come out of the house, back and forth,' Smith said. 'I didn't think she was being held hostage in the house.' The teenager and the toddler taken from the home were later turned over to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Her ordeal has been compared . to international bestselling novel Room by Emma Donoghue which tells a similar story of a woman who was abducted and held captive by a man who fathers a . child with her. She is forced to live in a single room with her . five-year-old son until they escape. House of horrors: The girl was held against her will as this home in Washington Park, Illinois and repeatedly sexually attacked and beaten . Room by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue . The book tells the story of a woman, referred to as Ma, who was abducted from college aged 19 by a man called Old Nick. She gives birth to two children while . in captivity - a girl who dies at birth and also a boy, Jack. Ma and Jack live in a single room. Jack . escapes and leads police to the house to free Ma and Old . Nick is sent to jail. The case makes news headlines and the media attention causes Ma to have a nervous breakdown. Donoghue says she was inspired by . the story of Elisabeth Fritzl, a 42-year-old woman who was held captive . for 24 years in a basement in Austria while her father raped her . resulting in seven children and one miscarriage. The novel has sold more than one million copies and has won several awards.
Missing 19-year-old was 15 years old when she disappeared in East St Louis, Illinois .
She was raped by her captor, fell pregnant and had a baby who was also kept at the home .
SWAT team stormed house and arrested 24-year-old man .
Man's mother appeared to have assisted in the crime and was also taken into police custody .
Boy, 16, also taken from the home which is located next to a gas station .
By . Louise Boyle and Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 23:00 EST, 23 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 23:57 EST, 24 August 2012 . A teenager held as a captive sex slave in a house for more than three years before escaping with a relative's help initially went there voluntarily but wasn't allowed to leave when she wanted to go home, an Illinois police chief said on Friday. Washington Park Police Chief David Clark said the 19-year-old St. Louis woman bolted from the home on Monday and told investigators her time in captivity included almost daily beatings and sexual assaults. One of those attacks resulted in a now-2-year-old boy rescued when a police SWAT team raided the home next to a gas station on Thursday and arrested a 25-year-old man and his mother, Clark said. Saved: The teenager's baby is carried away by the SWAT team after it was rescued from the home in Illinois . Horrific abuse: The teenager told police she escaped her daily torment earlier this week with a relative's help . According to Washington Park police, the woman claims she was held . against her will for more than 2 years as a sex slave at the house on . Kingshighway by the 25-year-old man and his family. A boy, aged 16, was also removed from the home in his school uniform, according to BND.com. The police chief said the three days between the teen's report and the raid on the home was largely spent substantiating her story. Clark also said investigators were working a separate sexual-assault case and lacked the manpower to go any faster. No charges have been filed in the case. Clark wouldn't publicly identify the suspect - originally reported as 17-years old - his mother or the teenager, citing the ongoing investigation. He said investigators planned to have the child's DNA tested to determine whether the man is his father. St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly, the county's top prosecutor, told The Associated Press on Friday that conditions in the home were 'definitely deplorable.' Initial evidence suggests that 'some of the details are consistent with what the young lady is saying, and I think there's something to it.' he said. 'We're still trying to figure out what the heck is going on.' Hideaway: A man passes outside the home where the 19-year-old St. Louis woman claims she was held captive for more than three years before managing to escape on Monday . Aided kidnapping: The young woman told police that the mother of the 25-year-old man arrested helped her falsify her name during child birth two years ago to prevent her rescue . Baby: A baby stroller rests alongside the home where the young woman claims having given birth to her kidnapper's child . Clark said the teenager met the man socially 'through someone else when they were partying, and a relationship built,' eventually leading to her visit of his home about the time she was reported missing. 'When she (soon) decided to go back to her parents, he wouldn't allow it,' Clark said. She was listed as a missing . or runaway juvenile on April 6, 2010 in St Louis, Missouri, close to . the state line. She was 15 years old when she disappeared. He said the man's mother helped detain the young woman and helped falsify medical records when she bore her son in the first year of her captivity. The teen told investigators the man and his mother coerced her into using a false name when giving birth to conceal that she was under-aged, Clark said. The young woman has told police she repeatedly tried to escape the house, which is on Washington Park's busiest street and next door to a convenience store, just a half mile from a freeway. But her captor chased her down each time and forced her back to the home at gunpoint, Clark said. Conditions: The home was described by police to have been in deplorable conditions, with six mattresses seen stacked in its backyard . Captivity: Local children look on as SWAT teams swarm the home in Washington Park, Illinois, next to a Mobil garage, where the woman said she was held for more than two years and repeatedly raped . Dramatic raid: Heavily-armed officers swarmed the home yesterday afternoon with their assault rifles drawn . Washington Park is a village of 4,200 people tucked on the edge of East St. Louis in one of Illinois' poorest regions. Known for its strip clubs and poverty, the community has grappled for years with corruption and violent crime punctuated by the 2010 shooting death of the village's mayor, John Thornton. The village twice has filed for bankruptcy since 2004, the last time in 2009. Neighbors told The Associated Press they had little reason to suspect anything amiss at the one-story bungalow on a parcel cluttered with trash, including a stack of six mildewing mattresses on a concrete slab surrounded by tall weeds. A child's car seat, baby stroller and car tires were nearby. A neighbor, Lakeitha Smith, opened her front door a crack and told the AP that during the few times she saw the young woman outside, the teenager didn't appear bruised or traumatized. Smith said the man would step away from the home at times with the toddler, who 'looked like a healthy baby,' and often came to Smith's house, where he played with her 3-year-old son. Rescue: A baby was taken from the home in Washington Park, Illinois where his mother had been held captive . Disappearance: The 19-year-old has been described as missing or a runaway by police since 2010 . 'They was like normal people,' Smith said. 'I really didn't know what was going on over there. I never knew it was something like that.' 'I used to see her come out of the house, back and forth,' Smith said. 'I didn't think she was being held hostage in the house.' The teenager and the toddler taken from the home were later turned over to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Her ordeal has been compared . to international bestselling novel Room by Emma Donoghue which tells a similar story of a woman who was abducted and held captive by a man who fathers a . child with her. She is forced to live in a single room with her . five-year-old son until they escape. House of horrors: The girl was held against her will as this home in Washington Park, Illinois and repeatedly sexually attacked and beaten . Room by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue . The book tells the story of a woman, referred to as Ma, who was abducted from college aged 19 by a man called Old Nick. She gives birth to two children while . in captivity - a girl who dies at birth and also a boy, Jack. Ma and Jack live in a single room. Jack . escapes and leads police to the house to free Ma and Old . Nick is sent to jail. The case makes news headlines and the media attention causes Ma to have a nervous breakdown. Donoghue says she was inspired by . the story of Elisabeth Fritzl, a 42-year-old woman who was held captive . for 24 years in a basement in Austria while her father raped her . resulting in seven children and one miscarriage. The novel has sold more than one million copies and has won several awards.
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