Autistic teenager found locked inside cage

[Jazzy]

Autistic teenager found locked inside cage with door chained shut.

Two pensioners have been charged with unlawful imprisonment after an autistic 19-year-old was found held in a cage on a wooden ‘bed’, inside a room where the door was chained shut.

A 65-year-old woman and 66-year-old man were arrested in the home in Paris Township, around 90 miles north of Detroit, Michigan.

The young man had a thin blanket on his wooden ‘bed platform, and a barred door on his room was chained shut.

The two pensioners are being charged with unlawful imprisonment and abuse of a vulnerable adult, and are being held in county jail.

Two children who were found on the premises were taken away by protection services after a court ruling five days later.

Michigan’s Department of Human Services says it is investigating the incident.

Spokesman Bob Wheaton said that the home in question is a private residence, rather than a residential care facility.

In your opinion, what would be a just punishment for these two pensioners?

 

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[Flurry]

A damn beatdown or life in prison would be more suitable.

 

[beowulf]

being locked up in a small cage sounds good

 

[Jazzy]

I think they should lock them both in the cage pictured in the OP, and throw away the key.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

You can add "traumatized" to that autistic kids list of problems.

Glad someone found out what was going on in that household.