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Investigators made a horrific discovery that as uncovered mutliple allegations of sexual abuse and sex trafficking while looking into what started out as a state identification fraud investigation, Click on Detroit reports.
West Bloomfield police were originally investigating Ryon Lenell Travis for allegedly charging more than $50,000 to a West Bloomfield business’s credit card. However, what they uncovered upon executing a search warrant at Travis’s home is three women that Travis called his “wives” and a cellphone filled with photographs of child ponograhy.
When authorities entered the home, one woman was chained at the neck to a stripper pole in the living room.
“There was a third woman chained at the neck to the stripper pole, sitting in the living room,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward said. “She had a chain around her neck with a padlock on the chain and then a longer chain that connected her to the stripper pole.”
One woman spoke to Click on Detroit saying that she is one of four wives. Investigators believe that two of the women are victims of human trafficking. The woman who was chained to the pole told investigator that Travis sold her and other women online for sex.
“She said that the defendant posted advertisements online and in chat rooms that he had four girls for sale,” said Woodward. “And she said that if she or the other women refused to dance or perform sex acts, the defendant would be violent with them, and that he would hit them with a closed fist, kick them or push them down.”
As for the disturbing child pornography photos found on Travis’s phone, those showed a 5-year-old girl, reportedly Travis’s own daughter, being sexually abused by an adult male, investigators say.
Authorities are now calling the home a “house of horrors.”
Travis, who identified himself as a “sovereign citizen,” demanded that all charges against him in the case, while speaking to authorities.
“My point is that all laws are commercial in nature and I am a natural born human of the American land,” Travis said. “Since all laws are commercial in nature and I choose not to do business with this court, I ask that this case be dismissed.”
That request was denied and Travis is currently being held without bond. Travis is charged with possessing, producing and distributing child pornography, and sex trafficking.
Read more at Click on Detroit.
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