USA: 11yo Boy With Autism Was Locked Inside A Custom Made Cage For 6 Years Covered With His Feces Inside His Own Home. Maximum Sentence Judge Could Issue Is 1 Year In Jail Or Probation.

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Law&Crime Network published February 7, 2025: Couple Who Forced 11-Year-Old to Live in Cage Could Get Shocking Sentence.

Police bodycam showed the moment a police officer in Henderson, Nevada realized an 11-year-old boy with autism was locked inside a cage in his own home. Jeffery and Misty Scanlan both entered guilty pleas to a charge of child neglect. Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber takes you through the video. Law&Crime Sidebar with Jesse Weber.

CBS8 News, Las Vegas, NV local

Henderson parents accused of keeping 11-year-old in ‘jail cell’ for 6 years plead guilty to child neglect

written by Stephanie Overton

Wednesday January 8, 2025

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two Henderson parents pleaded guilty to child neglect Wednesday morning after an 11-year-old child diagnosed with autism was found in a makeshift ‘jail cell’ after being absent from school in April 2024.

Jeffery Scanlan and Misty Scanlan both pleaded guilty to one count of child neglect or endangerment, a gross misdemeanor, in court Wednesday morning.

On April 23, officers with the City of Henderson Police Department and the Clark County School District Police Department did a welfare check at a home near Wigwam and North Green Valley parkways after a truancy, or absence from school, issue involving a student.

The truancy officer told police that when they knocked on the door, no one answered, but they could hear a child screaming and a gate rattling inside, according to an arrest report. Jeffery, who answered the door 40 minutes after police arrived, told officers his children were absent from school because they were sick.

When police asked Jeffery if they could check on the children, he agreed and led them inside, where police found an 11-year-old boy in a “large metal enclosure” with metal bars and locked doors, “similar to a jail cell,” the report stated.

The boy was wearing only a diaper and the enclosure had feces on the floors and walls, the report stated. Jeffery told police that the child was diagnosed with “severe Autism spectrum disorder.” Three other children were in the home when police arrived.

Officers said the house was in “extreme disarray and smelled of feces,” the report stated. While searching the home, police found two bedrooms with little or no furniture and feces on the walls, ceilings, and floors. Both bedrooms had exterior locks with no way to open from the inside, according to the report.

Jeffery told police that the child in the enclosure was “big and strong” and could be very aggressive, destroying the house, punching holes in the wall, and attempting to escape to neighbors’ houses. He said the child “prefers” the enclosure to his bedroom and will sleep in it on a couch.

When asked if the child would be able to exit in an emergency, Jeffery said someone would have to let him out. Jeffery told police the enclosure had been in the home for six years.

The sentencing for both Scanlans was scheduled for March 12 at 9:30 a.m. The maximum sentence a judge could issue is 364 days in the Clark County Detention Center. Probation is also a possibility.

The two remain out of custody as of Jan. 8.