Prison in forced-sex case

Woman says she was held against her will.

as part of a plea deal. He faced as many as 20 years in prison.

Brown admitted to attempting to transport 21year-old Selma Hasanovic over state lines to Indianapolis to engage in prostitution, said Mike Tobin, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland.

Court records show Hasanovic met Brown through an acquaintance who transported her from Michigan to his home in Toledo. Brown used the website, Backpage.com, to find men to have sex with Hasanovic, a police report states.

Brown was apprehended by Tipp City police in April 2011 following a traffic stop on Interstate 75 after noticing the driver changed lanes without signaling. Hasanovic was a passenger in his vehicle, and she told police she was being held against her will and she was forced to have sex with strangers for money that Brown kept, the police report said.

Hasanovic, who died of an apparent heroin overdose just three months after she was rescued, told authorities Brown had a shotgun at his home that he threatened her with, according to a police report.

Brown, a felon who was previously convicted of robbery, was not allowed to have a firearm in his possession.

Hana Gredic, Hasanovic’s mother, previously told the Dayton Daily News her daughter’s experience and death devastated her. She said the pain of losing Hasanovic has not eased in the months since it happened.

“I dream about my daughter every night,” she said. COLUMBUS —

The debt owed taxpayers is growing for an Ohio charter schools treasurer charged with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal education funds, the state auditor said.

Carl W. Shye Jr., 57, was indicted last month on federal charges of embezzling more than $470,000 over six years.

Shye’s list of debts owed to taxpayers grew by more than $52,000 with Thursday’s release of the final audit for a Dayton school that has since closed, Ohio Auditor Dave Yost said in a release.

The auditor says Shye is liable for more than $52,000 in New City Community School expenditures made without proper documentation and school board approval.

Shye’s attorney, Michael Bowler, declined to comment Friday.

Shye of New Albany handled the finances of more than a dozen former charter schools, in Columbus, Dayton and Youngstown. Under Ohio law, such schools operate independently of any school district but under contract with a sponsoring entity.

The Dayton Daily News reported Friday that the audit released Thursday is the 18th state audit in which Shye is alleged to have mishandled public funds, putting the total owed to more than $819,000.

“Though the numbers are still rolling in, Carl Shye’s free rein with taxpayer dollars is over,” Yost said in his release, referring to the federal charges against Shye.