Jackson County officials have charged Peter Lizon of Leroy with malicious wounding after his wife showed up at a nearby shelter with scars on her wrists and ankles caused by her limbs being chained up with metal padlocks, local media reported.
Lizon, 37, had also allegedly smashed her feet with farming equipment. He called his wife a “slave” and made her kneel before him whenever he entered the room.
“This is a case that is tenfold of what our average domestic (violence) is and maybe more than that,” Jackson County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Tony Boggs told NBC television affiliate WSAZ. “It comes down to what appears to be slavery and torture.”
Lizon’s wife Stephanie, 43, suffered a wide range of injuries all over her body, from being severely burned on her breasts and back with hot irons and frying pans to broken fingers and bruises, according to a criminal complaint filed by a woman who met her at the shelter and cited by local media.
The woman also claimed that Lizon hit his wife in the stomach while she was pregnant, causing her to have a miscarriage and bury the fully developed infant on the farm property. She also allegedly was made to give birth to another baby while chained, and neither have received medical attention since.
“It’s amazing what one human being can do to another,” Boggs said. “And that should not ever happen or be allowed to happen. And hopefully this will stop and curtail that, at least in this instance.”
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