Defense lawyer: 15-year-old was protected, not kidnapped
(CNN) -- The lawyer for one of three people arrested after a 15-year-old girl, missing for nearly a year, was found Wednesday in a Connecticut home said the girl was not kidnapped but was being protected from abuse by people he would not name who lived in her family's home.
The girl was found locked in a small hidden room under a staircase in a West Hartford home where police went to serve search warrants as part of the investigation into her disappearance. A police official said the house was in "deplorable" condition.
During the defendants' initial court appearance Thursday a judge set a $2.5 million bond for Adam Gault, 41. Ann Murphy, 40, described as Gault's common-law wife, and Kimberley Cray, 27, a resident of the home, were each given $750,000 bonds.
Three charges -- including unlawful restraint, reckless endangerment, custodial interference and risk of injury to a minor -- were read as each defendant was individually brought before the judge. (Posted 1:05 p.m.)
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