A 10-year-old Kentucky girl is now in foster care and her mother behind bars after the girl told police she spent days locked in a dog cage, among other abuses.
Sheila Mann, whose age was not given, had also threatened to slit her daughter’s throat and at one point placed both hands around her neck and squeezed long and hard enough to impair her breathing, the girl said, according to WKYT. Her throat hurt for several days.
Mann, 31, was arrested in June and booked in the Madison County Detention Center on Monday, WOLF-TV reported.
“The victim, who is under the age of 12, had disclosed to investigators that Ms. Mann had locked her inside a dog kennel-type cage for two to three days at a time and would only allow her to exit that dog cage just to use the bathroom,” Richmond Police Rodney Richardson told WKYT.
Mann was charged with first-degree strangulation, three counts of first-degree criminal abuse of a child, two counts of first-degree unlawful imprisonment, two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment and third-degree terroristic threatening, according to WOLF.
Held on $50,000 bond, she is due for arraignment on Wednesday.
The alleged spate of abuse occurred between Jan. 1 and March of this year, the girl told investigators.
From jail, Mann denied the charges.
“That’s not true at all,” she told WKYT on Tuesday. “I have never done anything like that.”
