Boy, 9, Locked in Outdoor Dog Cage For Months in Freezing Temps: NEIGHBORS KNEW
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A 9-year-old North Carolina boy was reportedly forced to live locked in a dog cage for the last six months. The boy's father, stepmother, and the stepmother's aunt were arrested on child abuse and related charges.
The trio is facing a total of 19 felony child abuse indictments. Deputies responded to the family home on October 19 after receiving an anonymous 911 call regarding possible child abuse. The caller reportedly told police that her husband had previously taken food to the victim.
Upon arrival, deputies noticed the boy inside a locked dog kennel wearing no shirt, jeans, and no shoes, even though temperatures were below freezing and frost was on the ground.
Deputies found the stepmother inside a bedroom with a 4-year-old under the bed and the 8-month-old still in her arms. She claimed she didn’t know the combination for the cage lock, forcing EMS and deputies to break the cage open.
The 9-year-old was taken to the Brenner’s Children’s Hospital in Winston-Salem, police said, where he received a medical checkup and was released the same day.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Sarah Ford - Legal Director, South Carolina Victim Assistance Network; Former Prosecutor focusing on Crimes Against Women and Children; Facebook: "SCVAN Legal Services Program;" Adjunct Professor, Claflin University & South Carolina State University
- Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women; Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University; Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital, Voted "My Buckhead's Best Psychiatric Practice of 2022"
- Robert Farley - Former Detective, Cook County Sheriff's Police Department (Chicago, IL); Deputy - United States Marshal, Commanding Officer, Child Exploitation Unit; Consultant in Crimes Against Children, Farley International
- Dr. Free N. Hess - Pediatrician/Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Child Safety Expert & Consultant, Founder of PediMom
- Nicole Partin - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Twitter: @nicolepartin (Naples, FL)
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| 0:44.0 | Locked in a cage. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm not talking about a wild animal that's getting shipped over from Africa. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm not talking about a dangerous species like an alligator that just got pulled out of Okie-Fenoki |
| 1:00.1 | with those long tongs. |
| 1:03.5 | A baby boy. |
| 1:05.2 | Just nine years old. |
| 1:07.9 | Locked in a cage. |
| 1:12.0 | Living outside. |
| 1:16.5 | In these temperatures. |
| 1:17.7 | How is that happening in America? |
| 1:22.2 | How and why is that happening in our great country? |
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