{"id":67369,"date":"2015-10-20T17:54:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=67369"},"modified":"2015-10-21T18:17:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:17:50","slug":"man-girlfriend-plead-not-guilty-to-torturing-his-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/10\/20\/man-girlfriend-plead-not-guilty-to-torturing-his-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, girlfriend plead not guilty to torturing his sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_66828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66828\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Lancaster-elder-abuse-torture-9.28.15-3.jpg.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66828\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Lancaster-elder-abuse-torture-9.28.15-3.jpg.gif\" alt=\"Sheriff's deputies investigating reports of screaming found the man's sister locked in a shed in the backyard of this house in the 45000 block of East Second Street on Sept. 22. [Photo by LUIS MEZA]\" width=\"624\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff&#8217;s deputies investigating reports of screaming found the man&#8217;s sister locked in a shed in the backyard of this house in the 45000 block of East 2nd Street on Sept. 22. [Photo by LUIS MEZA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>LANCASTER \u2013 A man and his girlfriend pleaded not guilty Tuesday to torturing his 54-year-old sister and locking her in a storage shed in Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elias Abdurahman<\/strong>, 61, and <strong>Sara Kebede Tadesse<\/strong>, 50, were charged last month with one felony count each of false imprisonment by violence, torture, assault with a deadly weapon and dependent adult abuse, along with an allegation that they personally inflicted great bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff&#8217;s deputies investigating reports of screaming found the man&#8217;s sister locked in a shed in the backyard of a house in the 45000 block of East Second Street on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said the woman was frail, malnourished and had both fresh and older wounds. The criminal complaint alleges that the couple assaulted her with a cane.<\/p>\n<p>The two &#8212; who have remain jailed since they were arrested Sept. 22 &#8212; face up to life in prison if convicted as charged.<\/p>\n<p>They are due back in court Nov. 19 for a preliminary hearing to determine if there&#8217;s enough evidence to proceed to trial.<\/p>\n<p>Each remains jailed on more than $1.1 million bail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Previous related story:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/09\/28\/torture-false-imprisonment-charges-filed-after-woman-found-locked-in-lancaster-shed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Torture, false imprisonment charges filed after woman found locked in Lancaster shed<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER \u2013 A man and his girlfriend pleaded not guilty Tuesday to torturing his 54-year-old sister and locking her in a storage shed in Lancaster. Elias Abdurahman, 61, and Sara Kebede Tadesse, 50, were charged last month with one felony count each of false imprisonment by violence, torture, assault with a deadly weapon and dependent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}