Lee County sheriff's deputies on Tuesday arrested a Lehigh Acres couple accused of kidnapping, holding captive and sexually assaulting a pregnant woman.

Detectives reported Manuel Escobar, 32, kidnapped the woman and her daughter from their home July 5 and kept them until they escaped July 17.

Escobar's girlfriend, Tahlia Ortiz, 23, is accused of being an accomplice in the sexual assault and keeping the woman captive.

The woman and Escobar got into an argument over the phone July 5, according to the arrest report. He showed up at her house the next day and repeatedly beat her, giving her two black eyes and a bloodied nose, the report states.

Escobar broke the woman's cellphone and choked her until she blacked out, detectives said.

The man then called his girlfriend, saying he didn't know what to do about the other woman and asking "if he should just kill her," the arrest report states.

Escobar threatened to kill the woman and told her that if she tried to run, he would kill her and her family, the report states. He then told the woman and her daughter to get into his truck and took them to his house, detectives said.

Escobar tormented the woman, who is about 18 weeks pregnant, for several days after taking her and her daughter to his house, officials said.

He beat her, sexually assaulted her three or four times over eight days and taunted her with a hammer, threatening to "bash (her) head in," the report states. Ortiz also participated in the sexual assault, according to the report.

On July 8, Escobar took the woman back to her house and made her drive her vehicle back to his house, the report states. Escobar kept her car keys and let her in the car only when he wanted her to run errands with him and Ortiz, detectives said.

The woman told investigators she couldn't call 911 because Escobar broke her phone the day she showed up to her house, the report states. He also forced her to sleep in a bed with him and his girlfriend so he could "keep an eye on her," officials said.

On July 17, Escobar went to work and forgot to take the woman's car keys with him, the report states. She left the house with her daughter, dropped the girl off with a family friend so she would be safe and made a report at the Sheriff's Office.

The Sheriff's Office crime scene unit gathered evidence from the crime scenes at both houses, the report states.

Escobar faces charges of kidnapping, aggravated battery of a pregnant victim, battery by strangulation, sexual assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and obstructing justice.

Ortiz faces charges of kidnapping and sexual assault. Both are being held at the Lee County Jail without bail, according to arrest records.