The preliminary hearing for a man arrested on some serious charges associated with a domestic case was held Thursday
The state managed to get Steven Barenek bound over for a possible trial on five alternate counts of human trafficking.
Beranek was also charged with abuse of a child, however Senior Assistant District Attorney Steve Maxwell says he was not bound over on the count. That allegedly involved a 14-month old. He was already facing charges of aggravated endangerment of a child, criminal restraint and domestic battery from the case goes back to August of this year.
The adult female victim in the case was allegedly held against her will on a farmstead in the county. She at some point was able to get free and showed up at a restaurant in the county. Police and sheriff officials then began the investigation which was made more difficult because of her not speaking very much English.
Beranek is also alleged to have inflicted cruel and inhuman corporal punishment on the child and also placing the child in a situation where the child’s life, body or health could be in danger.
The female victim was on the stand for sometime Thursday talking about her ordeal.