Marilyn Bagley comes to husband’s defense in sex slave case

The Associated Press delicately danced around the torture in the lead of a story raising questions about the accuser in the Lebanon, Missouri, sex slave case.

The allegations in the indictment were shocking: A young woman had been held captive for years as the sex slave of a Missouri couple. She had been locked in a cage and subjected to electrical shocks. Parts of her body had been nailed to wooden planks.

The “parts” in question, an indictment says, are the woman’s “labia and nipples.” There were also accusations of waterboarding, performing abortions with “speculums, vacuums and clothing hangers” on the girl and sewing the woman’s “urinary opening and vagina shut” among several other claims. This may surprise you but the man accused of orchestrating it all, 43-year-old Ed Bagley, has his defenders, including his wife.