By: EFE
By: EFE
MIAMI- A Melbourne woman, in central Florida, was arrested and accused of having her daughter, a minor suffering from severe autism, locked in a cage at her home, local media reported on Tuesday.
Melissa Doss, 42 years, was charged this Monday with a crime of aggravated abuse of a minor and child neglect.
The arrest of the woman, to whom a judge imposed a bond of $ 20, 000 dollars, it occurred this weekend, when a Doss neighbor called the emergency line 911 to report that a minor had climbed over his fence and was in his yard.
The agents who appeared in the place r of the facts they discovered that the girl did not know how to speak and, after questioning the mother, she told them that the girl had run away from the house, picked up the CBS Miami channel.
The researchers also found that the girl slept in a “homemade cage made of metal and wood” where she was locked up at night.
Police officers reported the deplorable conditions of the house, with “the smell of feces and urine” and “garbage, insects of all kinds, spiders and flies” everywhere.
In addition, some areas of the ceiling had disappeared, they detected mold throughout the house and the bathrooms were not working.