‘I was his slave’: Mobile man describes 10-month ordeal as judge sentences captor

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A judge on Wednesday sentenced a man to 15 years in a kidnapping case.

But this was no ordinary kidnapping.

Jaason Michael Leahr admitted that he took advantage of an elderly man who had hired him to be a caregiver and then put him through an ordeal that seems more like a Hollywood horror film – imprisoned in his own home for 10 months before he finally escaped…

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