A couple in Kentucky has been accused of keeping their 18-year-old daughter locked in a cage filled with feces, according to multiple reports.
A welfare check led to the disturbing discovery at the Richmond home. Upon entering the home, police noticed a strong stench that led them to the basement where the daughter’s bedroom was located.
Police found the cage in a basement bedroom of Shannon and Tito Felix’s house. Inside the cage, a children’s toilet filled with feces and urine, and their 18-year-old daughter.
Witnesses said that the victim looks like she is only 10 or 11 years old. A neighbor who didn’t want to be identified said that she believes the daughter was adopted by the couple, which authorities have not confirmed.
The mother allegedly told police she locked her daughter up so she “doesn’t get out and we can get some sleep,” because she tends to get up and walk around at night. According to reports, the cage was seven feet long, 43 inches tall, and 46 inches wide.
Both Shannon and her husband Tito Felix were arrested and charged with unlawful imprisonment and abuse.
Here’s what folks online said after reading this horrific abuse, according to DailyMail via AWM:
“Instead of arresting them, the cops should have just locked them up in the cage! Prison is too good for them. Too clean and the cages are too spacious. Let them experience the hell that they created for their daughter” and “Let them stay in jail forever,” one commenter said who believed their punishment should fit the crime.
Another commenter pondered: “So its mom’s fault she is disabled in the first place, THEN she abuses her. When the girl was born with FAS she should have been taken, if you can’t care for your child while they are a part of you, then why would anyone think you would do the right thing once they are born. So tragic.”
Others believed that perhaps the child wasn’t their biological daughter, as one person pointed out: “The article says the couple has several foster children. This maybe one of them. How were such people approved as foster parents?” Another commenter added: “If she’s disabled, as they claim, I find their excuse dubious, they’re making that up to try to rationalize locking this kid up.”
Another commenter who suffers from sleepwalking agreed, sharing: “I think the excuses make zero sense. We have alarms on the doors very simple. When I stay with my dad he puts the house alarm on. Imagine that! And everyone sleeps despite my sleep walking.”
Others agreed, including one commenter who noted: “The explanation the parents offered does not make any sense. If the child/adult sleepwalks and they are concerned she may sleep walk out of the house or something, why not put alarms on the exterior doors or have the child in a bedroom at night and put an alarm on her door so they will know she is sleepwalking?”
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Source: AWM
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