A 17-year-old autistic girl was subjected to a grim catalog of sexual abuse and controlling behavior for a year after she was kidnapped by a 31-year-old man.
Hailey Burns went missing from her Charlotte, North Carolina, home in May 2016 and was found 22 miles away in the Duluth, Georgia, home of Michael Ren Wysolovski on Saturday.
The teen, who has Asperger's Syndrome, was "confined in an upstairs bedroom and told she'd be arrested if she left," a warrant claims.
In the year she was held captive, Wysolovski would sometimes withhold food from Burns until she performed oral sex on him, the warrant says.
He also made her keep a diary counting the number of calories she consumed each day, and would refuse to feed her the next day if she ate over a certain amount, according to the warrant seen by the Gwinnett Daily Post.
Wysolovski has been booked on felony counts of aggravated sodomy, child cruelty involving first-degree deprivation, interference with custody and false imprisonment.
He first made contact with Burns online and the pair began a text conversation in which she reportedly called him "daddy", according to IJR.com.
He also told the teen that he would be her friend.
"He gradually wormed his way into her good graces," her father Anthony told WBTV Charlotte.
"He coerced her into listening to him and not following our directions and the next thing I knew my daughter wasn't communicating with me."
Hailey started acting strangely before she vanished, "using a pacifier and wearing her hair in pigtails", according to the IJR.
"[He] got her in the car, brought her straight to his house and she pretty much had to stay there the whole time," her mother, Shaunna Burns, told WSOC-TV on Sunday.
Burns was able to escape her captor after she made another online friend - a US student in Romania who eked information out of her and contacted her parents.
The warrant says Michael Ren Wysolovski (left), 31, made the Aspergers teen give him oral sex in exchange for food. Photo / Police / Facebook
When Burns told the student, identified by WSOC-TV as Maisey Baker, that she was a prisoner, Baker told her to take a photo of the scene outside her window, the Daily Mail reported.
After researching the case, Baker contacted Hailey's parents, and authorities rescued Burns within five hours, according to the teen's mother Shaunna Burns.
"She was insanely brave that she trusted me with the information she did," Baker told the channel.
Former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker told WSOC-TV: 'The victim took a picture outside and all they had to go on was the neighborhood, and what it looked like from inside the house.
"They did enough research and gumshoe work to figure out where that young woman was being held. That's a nice piece of work."
Wysolovski reportedly bought the home, at 2723 Seneca Trail, on April 14 this year. According to public records he had lived two miles away, in Norcross, until at least January.
Burns befriended a US student in Romania online and told her she was being held captive in Wysolovski's house - the student figured out the location and contacted her parents. Photo / WSB-TV
Neighbours said that they thought the pair were just a "quiet couple".
"This is Duluth. I mean, nothing bad - you never hear about anything bad happening, but I guess things can happen anywhere and it's - I don't know - it's surreal," neighbour Jennifer Cabrera told Fox 5.
"I don't really know how to feel about it, except I'm glad that she's safe now."
Another neighbor said Burns once waved hello while she was unloading groceries outside the house, WSB-TV reported.
He added: "I thought nobody was living there actually because everything was closed up, the drapes, the blinds."
