Police: Chicago man held woman captive for months

A 22-year-old man accused of beating and choking a woman he allegedly held captive for a more than two months at his Chicago apartment was ordered held without bond on Sunday.

Sir Wilfred Camaligan appeared in court on charges that he used a crowbar to hurt the woman he once dated, choked her until she passed out and forced her to cut herself while holding her hostage.

Authorities said she escaped Friday and someone let her use a cellphone to contact her mother. Later that day, Camaligan was found by police in the basement of his home and arrested.

He was charged with domestic aggravated battery, kidnapping and attempted murder. Prosecutors said the alleged victim, who was hospitalized in Chicago, suffered hearing loss in one ear and a fractured shoulder blade.

"This is beyond the pale," Judge Adam D. Bourgeois Jr. said in court, according to the Chicago Tribune. "I don't think there is any conditions of bond I could set that would keep the community safe from you."

Camaligan's attorney, a Cook County assistant public defender, said Camaligan was a nursing assistant and recently passed a certification exam.

A listed phone number for Camaligan could not be located on Sunday.

Attorneys said Camaligan and the woman met at an anime convention and began corresponding online. He moved in with her in July and became possessive, prosecutors said.

Investigators confiscated a black metal knife, a wooden stick and a crowbar from Camaligan's apartment, according to the Tribune.