Timonthy Haslett Jr was arrested after a woman escaped from his home wearing a metal collar with a padlock on it.

A Missouri man accused of holding a woman captive in his basement until she escaped last year has been indicted on rape and other counts that carry life in prison, the Clay County prosecutor said on Tuesday.

40-year-old Timothy Haslett Jr. was indicted on nine charges, including rape, sodomy and kidnapping, Prosecuting Attorney Zach Thompson said.

If convicted, Haslett, who is being held in lieu of $3 million bond, could face more than five life sentences in prison, Thompson said.

“We would not be here today if not for the bravery of one woman and the tireless efforts of the men and women of 16 different agencies,” Thompson said, according to video streamed by local media.

Haslett was arrested in October after a woman escaped from his home in Excelsior Springs wearing a metal collar with a padlock on it and went to neighbors for help, police said in court documents.

Haslett's public defender said he will plead not guilty at his court appearance on Friday.

The victim told police that Haslett picked her up on a Kansas City, Missouri, street at the beginning of September and that she had been held in a small room in the basement, restrained by wrist and ankle handcuffs, police said in a probable cause statement previously filed in court.

The woman also said she had been repeatedly raped and whipped but managed to escape when Haslett left to take his child to school, a detective said in the document.

The grand jury indictment announced on Tuesday cites one count of first-degree rape, four counts of first-degree sodomy, one count of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of second-degree assault and one count of endangering a child.

It is an open investigation, Thompson, the prosecutor, said on Tuesday. He encouraged anyone with any information to contact Excelsior Springs police.