Coral Springs Couple Face Child Abuse Charges For Allegedly Locking Daughter In Room At Night

Even the most extroverted adults will tell you that, in middle school, it was difficult for them to relate to their peers. Complaining about your parents and their ridiculous rules and their futile efforts to control you is one of the surest ways to form a connection with your classmates. Hyperbolic stories about how uptight, stubborn, or clueless your parents are and how outdated their views are can be a form of social capital in middle school. When middle schoolers complain to adults about the behavior of their parents, though, you know it is serious. School employees are required to notify law enforcement if minors tell them about physical or sexual abuse they have suffered at the hands of other adults, including but not limited to their own parents. The complaint is the beginning of an investigation that may or may not lead to criminal charges, and as with every criminal case, the criminal charges may or may not lead to a conviction. If you are facing charges after a minor claimed that you abused him or her, contact a Tampa criminal defense lawyer.

Preteen Girl Complained to School Resource Officer About Parents Locking Her in Room

A 12-year-old girl from Coral Springs Florida told a school resource officer at her school about the abusive behavior to which her parents had subjected her. As a punishment for going outside the house without permission two years earlier, the parents had been locking her in her bedroom at night. Her room does not have an adjacent bathroom, but if she urinated in her room while locked inside, her parents would increase the punishments. She also said that she was not allowed to take showers or baths inside the house, and that her parents required her to bathe outside in the yards, regardless of the weather conditions. This had been going on every night for years.

The girl’s complaint led to an investigation, and eventually the police went to the family’s residence and interviewed the girl’s parents and her three siblings. The siblings corroborated the girl’s statements, namely that the parents had been locking her in her room every night for years without bathroom access; the siblings said that the parents had never locked any of them in their rooms at night. News reports did not say how old the siblings are, but they did say that the girl who complained of abuse is the only child in the family who is adopted. Parents who have legally adopted a child hold the status of legal parents until the child reaches adulthood; the laws regarding removing a child from their care because of abuse or endangerment are the same as they are for biological parents. The girl’s parents are facing criminal charges for child abuse without great bodily harm.

Contact Tampa Criminal Defense Attorney Bryant Scriven

A criminal defense lawyer can help you get justice if you are accused of crimes after your minor child complained to authorities about your alleged actions.  Contact Scriven Law in Tampa, Florida to schedule a consultation.

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