Crime Alert 12.25.24 | Parents Keep Children in Cages 'For Their Own Safety'
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 25 December 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Parents keep their young children in cages for more than 12 hours 'for their own safety.' Criminal who may believe he's Santa doesn't make it down the chimney.
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| 0:29.3 | Terms apply. Crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Minnesota cops get several concerning calls about the Cotton family's four young children. |
| 0:38.7 | During a welfare check, they find a two-year-old with a diaper duct tape to her skin, |
| 0:43.8 | trapped in a playpen by a dog cage. |
| 0:46.9 | In a bedroom, two more children, ages 5 and 7, locked in a cage surrounding a bunk bed. |
| 0:53.1 | Parents Christina and Benjamin Cotton say they keep the children |
| 0:56.2 | locked up at night for their own safety. The parents, quote, overslept. That's why the children |
| 1:02.7 | had not been released from their cages yet. Officers say the children had been in cages for more |
| 1:08.1 | than 13 hours. Nancy, one other child, a nine-year-old, |
| 1:12.2 | is found unrestrained in the basement. All five children showed signs of physical abuse, |
| 1:16.9 | and the five- and seven-year-old described being hit really hard, hit with a belt, and having |
| 1:22.4 | their hands duct tape behind their backs if chores were not completed. The nine-year-old refused |
| 1:27.4 | to discuss the |
| 1:28.1 | abuse, saying their parents, quote, didn't want them talking about trouble and to, quote, |
| 1:33.1 | keep it in the family. The cottons were originally charged with 16 counts each, but 15 of those |
| 1:38.6 | charges are dismissed. Benjamin Cotton 42, Christina Cotton 40, take a plea deal and get four-year sentences for one count each of child torture. Wow, I wonder how they're going to like it in a cage. When Massachusetts cops pull up in the middle of a drug deal, the dealer takes off running. The man climbs the side of a home, |
| 2:01.6 | runs across roofs before he disappears. A homeowner alerts cops, it sounds like someone's screaming |
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