A Texas man allegedly held his girlfriend hostage to abuse her for at least six months at his apartment, where he bolted down the windows and locked the front door from the outside to prevent her from escaping, according to police and the victim’s family.

Kenneth Leon Wright, 41, threatened to kill his girlfriend if she ever tried to leave the boarded-up apartment in Houston, investigators revealed as Wright appeared in court Saturday, KHOU reported .

Wright would punch her in the face if she tried to leave — as he did just two days before he was finally arrested on Friday, prosecutors told the judge. 3

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And although Wright would on rare occasions take the girlfriend to her mother’s house, he would make sure that her family never learned where he was keeping her, and would hang

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