An adoptive mother from Missouri was accused of childhood abuse and danger as the authorities investigate whether she changed a daughter adopted to someone in Texas by a monkey and mistreated another child under her care.
Winfield’s 70 -year -old woman has been imprisoned with a bail of $ 250,000 since her trial on the weekend, with her next appearance in the Court for next Tuesday. No lawyer appears for women in online judicial records. The city of 1,500 people Winfield is approximately 45 miles (72.42 kilometers) northwest or in the center of St. Louis.
Prosecutors wrote to ask for a cash bond that the girl’s mother was an adoptive or adoptive mother of more than 100 children. The presentation said they had received information that some of these children had also suffered similar physical and emotional abuse.
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The girl in the center of the case is in her adolescence. She told the authorities that she was beaten with wooden ornaments, shoes and a palette, a detective from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s office wrote in the declaration of probable cause. The girl said she tried to tell people what was happening, but nobody believed her.
In February, a deputy who worked as a school resources officer in Missouri about the missing classes of girls, according to the declaration of probable cause. While investigating, the deputy of a rumor was told that the girl was changed by an exotic animal to someone in Texas.
The deputy asked the authorities in Texas to review the girl, and was returned to Missouri, where child welfare officials had a tip several months before the girl was abused.
Lincoln County Prosecutor Mike Wood, developed in an interview with KSDK-TV that a witness described that he was asked to take the child to Texas and bring the monkey in return. Wood said they must investigate more thoroughly to see if that is credible.
“What was disturbing is that the idea that this was just a possibility, as we could a conversation would be something briefly considered or joked is really a child or discouraged,” Wood told the station on Tuesday.
According to the declaration of probable cause, the girl said that the woman she stayed in Texas worked outside the city and left her for days at the same time to take care of exotic animals. The girl said she was subjected to sexual abuse or forced labor.
The woman told a detective that she was a friend of the girl’s adoptive mother and touched her to give the couple a break. The loading documents discard the girl’s living conditions there as unhealthy and said it was inadequate.
Wood did not immediately respond to a telephone message from Associated Press in search of comments. But the prosecutor said in a Facebook post that more positions were expected as there is additional information available. The publication said the authorities are now examining a decade of accusations of abuse.
“Numerous victims and witnesses have already contacted my office and encourage any other person with information to continue arriving at my office, as well as researchers,” said the post.
Baylee Watts, spokesman for the Missouri Department of Social Services, did not provide information on the case, wrote in an email that “the information related to specific investigations of child abuse and negligence is closed and confidential according to Missouri’s law.” “
