Woman was kidnapped and kept as a sex slave by her stepfather for 19 years and gave birth to 9 children

33-year-old Rosalynn McGinnis from Oklahoma was kidnapped when she was 12 years old and held in custody in Mexico by his 62-year-old stepfather Henri Michele Piette for 19 years. Kept as a sex slave, McGinnis was repeatedly raped and gave birth to nine children until she managed to escape last year in June.

McGinnis told the media that Piette had been harassing her since she was very young. Things started to get worse when Piette gave her a wedding ring and married her in a twisted “wedding ceremony” in the back of a van when she was 11.

A year later in 1997, Piette started rapeing this 12-year-old innocent girl. Worse still, McGinnis’ mother fled from the family and left her with the rapist because of intolerable domestic violence. McGinnis was then snatched away from her school to a remote rural area in Mexico.

In captivity, McGinnis suffered from near daily sexual assaults, beatings by baseball bat, stabbed by knife and even tortured until she went into a coma. She gave birth to nine children until she finally escape from custody in June last year.

McGinnis said she would have gone crazy or died if she kept living in such predicament. Hence she took a taxi with her children to Oaxaca City with money saved up over the years. She eventually managed to contact the authorities and fled back to the US.

Piette was arrested on 5th October in Mexico and extradited to the US. He is charged with first-degree rape and other offences by authorities in Oklahoma, and detained in an Oklahoma jail awaiting trial. As he had been living in Mexico and middle South America for quite a long period of time, Piette is suspected to have deep ties to Mexican criminal organizations, according to FBI.

LONDON (AP) — British authorities on Tuesday brought new counts of rape and sexual assault against comedian Russell Brand, who is already facing similar charges involving four women.

The U.K.'s Crown Prosecution Service said the new charges — one count of rape and one of sexual assault — against Brand were in relation to two further women. The alleged offenses took place in 2009, the CPS said.

Brand, 50, had already been charged in April with two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. The charges were brought following an 18-month investigation sparked when four women alleged they had been assaulted by the controversial comedian.

Prosecutors said that these offenses took place between 1999 and 2005 — one in the English seaside town of Bournemouth and the other three in London. Brand pleaded not guilty to those charges in a London court earlier this year.

He is expected to appear next in court on Jan. 20, in relation to the two new charges brought against him. A trial has also been scheduled for June next year and is expected to last four to five weeks.

The “Get Him To The Greek” actor, known for risqué stand-up routines, battles with drugs and alcohol, has dropped out of the mainstream media in recent years. He built a large following online with videos mixing wellness and conspiracy theories, as well as discussing religion.

When the first batch of charges were announced in April, Brand said that he welcomed the opportunity to prove his innocence.

“I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord,” he said in a social media video. “I was a drug addict, a sex addict and an imbecile. But what I never was a rapist. I’ve never engaged in nonconsensual activity. I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes.”

The Associated Press doesn’t name victims of alleged sexual violence, and British law protects their identity from the media for life.

FILE - Russell Brand speaks during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry, File)