Vacaville, CA 95687, United States
[Click to zoom.] Click to enlarge (File) AP 1 of 1 Close numSlides of totalImages A man is arrested and accused of holding a woman hostage and forcing her into prostitution. Police say the woman was held against her will on and off since December of 2007. Authorities say if she didn't follow the suspect's rules, she was beaten. "It's our understanding that she was beaten and forced to go to a certain part of the home and remain there. If she attempted to leave or to get food or go to the bathroom, she would be beaten," police say. Vacaville police say that a 23-year-old woman was held against her will, off an on for more than a year and forced into prostitution. Officers showed up to a Vacaville apartment complex on a disturbance call yesterday, and when they arrived they say 24-year-old Sean Grant didn't cooperate with detectives. nstead, Grant tried to escape out a second story window. Police caught him, which sparked an investigation which led them to a badly beaten woman. "He would beat her with it as an instrument to inflict pain to gain her compliance," detectives tell CBS13. Police say Grant also put her on Craigslist, selling sex, and forced her to prostitute herself on the streets locally in and around the Bay Area. "She started keeping a tally sheet so when she would go to the authorities its our understanding that he located the tally sheet, he destroyed the tally sheet and she was beaten as a result of doing that," say authorities. It started back in October of 2007, when police say the two started dating. The woman tried to get away, but she couldn't. "He had threatened her family with harm if she did not return. When she returned to save her family at that point she was beaten severely as to be taught a lesson that she was not to try and leave," police tell CBS13. Grant is charged with false imprisonment, human trafficking and criminal threats. Detectives say while this woman has been through so much she is doing well and she is safe.