Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: A 26-year-old woman who helped her boyfriend abduct and sexually abuse two Amish girls last year pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping in court on Monday. Nicole Vaisey and her boyfriend Stephen Howells, 39, were arrested in August after luring the Amish girls away from their family's roadside farm stand. The 7- and 11-year-old girls were released from Howells' home the next day, and Vaisey and Howells were captured soon after, charged with coercing and sexually exploiting the two girls and other children. In St Lawrence County court on Monday, Vaisey appeared calm and collected as she pleaded guilty to the kidnapping charges.Nicole Vaisey, 26, and her boyfriend Stephen Howells, 39, were arrested in August after abducting the young girlsVaisey pleaded guilty to kidnapping charges in St Lawrence County courtShe told the judge she drove Howells to the girls' roadside farm stand where he lured them to the car with a puppyThe couple held the girls captive in their upstate New York home for a dayVaisey is said to have been in a 'master/slave relationship' with Howells and is expected to be jailed for 25 years 
 Question:The 25-year-old then drove to her sister's house to eat and made excuses about why _ couldn't join them.

Stephen Howells