By The Opinion
28 Sep 2024, 17:10 PM EDT
An eight-year-old girl escaped from her home in West Virginia, where she was in the care of her grandmother, who was arrested after it was discovered that she handcuffed her granddaughter, who failed to remove the handcuffs from her left hand before reaching the house. from some neighbors.
Laura Southworth, 54, is being charged with child abuse, child neglect resulting in injury, child neglect resulting in injury and unlawful restraint, after her eight-year-old granddaughter escaped from her home in handcuffs, according to Law & Crime.
The Charleston Police Department said the girl left her home shortly before 9 a.m. on Monday, September 23. Officers responded to Bridge Road in relation to an abused girl.
A detective went to the home of her grandmother Southworth, who allegedly admitted to handcuffing her granddaughter at night because she allegedly stole food and “tried to leave the house without permission,” according to the criminal complaint, which determined that the girl She was handcuffed for 13 hours, WOWK reported. The girl was one of four infants living in Laura Southworth’s custody at the home. Two of them were his teenage children and the other two were his grandchildren, ages three and eight.
The detective who visited the house described it as “extremely messy” with so many objects on the floor that he could barely move. The four minors received education from home. A neighbor of the Southworths said that they were very reserved people, “I wish I could have avoided it.”
Laura Southworth has not yet issued a statement but has already scheduled a hearing date, October 2. She is being held on bail set at $10,000.
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