LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two mother and father who stored an 11-year-old youngster residing with autism in a makeshift jail cell must serve a 12 months of probation, a choose ordered Wednesday.
In January, Jeffery Scanlan and Misty Scanlan pleaded responsible to at least one depend of kid neglect or endangerment, a gross misdemeanor.
Final spring, police performing a welfare test at a house close to Wigwam and Inexperienced Valley parkways discovered the boy in a “large metal enclosure” with metallic bars and locked doorways, “similar to a jail cell,” paperwork mentioned.
The boy was carrying solely a diaper and the enclosure had feces on the flooring and partitions, paperwork mentioned. Jeffery Scanlan instructed police that the kid was recognized with “severe autism spectrum disorder.” Three different kids had been within the residence when police arrived.
As a part of the plea settlement, the utmost sentence Clark County District Courtroom Choose Jessica Peterson may have issued was a 12 months in jail. Prosecutors didn’t oppose probation ought to the court docket decide the couple was not “high risk.”
Peterson adopted the deal, sentencing the couple to probation for a 12 months. Ought to both violate the phrases of their probation, they are going to be despatched to jail.
Jeffery Scanlan instructed police the enclosure was within the residence for six years, paperwork mentioned.
