A 5-year-old boy whose cranium was fractured when his mom’s live-in boyfriend struck him with a mop deal with, breaking it in half, has been overwhelmed, uncared for, and tortured repeatedly, the Volusia Sheriff’s Workplace introduced Saturday.
Investigators found video surveillance from contained in the DeLand-area residence revealing the kid as soon as had his palms tied behind his again for greater than 19 hours. Medical doctors inspecting him discovered, along with the cranium fracture, 46 seen accidents in addition to inside accidents, Volusia County Sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant stated in a information launch.
There have been three kids within the residence, together with an 8-year-old woman and a 9-year-old boy.
“The torture these youngsters endured is difficult to think about. The excellent news is that they’re in secure palms now, and their scumbag abusers should reply for what they did,” Sheriff Mike Chitwood wrote in a Fb submit Saturday.
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Shawn M. Stone, 32, has been in custody since Could 9. Along with one rely of aggravated youngster abuse, he was charged on Friday with 23 different abuse- and neglect-related counts.
The boyfriend, Shawn M. Stone, 32, has been in custody since Could 9. Along with one rely of aggravated youngster abuse, he was charged on Friday with 23 different abuse-and-neglect-related counts.
Jail information present Stone is going through eight counts of neglect of a kid inflicting nice bodily hurt; 5 counts of aggravated youngster abuse; 4 counts of neglect of a kid; three counts of failing to report suspected youngster abuse; two counts of false imprisonment of a kid underneath 13; and two counts of tampering with a witness in a life felony continuing.
He’s being held with out bond.
In the meantime, the mom, Taylor B. Schaefer, 28, is going through 25 costs after investigators stated she repeatedly witnessed abuse and didn’t cease or report it. She has but to be situated by authorities, Gant stated.
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Schaefer known as 911 after the mop deal with incident, saying she had a “intestine feeling” that Stone was abusing the sufferer, then checked the video footage and confirmed it.
Taylor Schaefer
However investigators who watched hours of video discovered that she had been current in the home when the 5-year-old was being overwhelmed, Gant stated, whereas the mom additionally noticed the boy visibly injured and limping, however didn’t present medical consideration.
“On the day that Schaefer did report the abuse, video confirmed her mopping up the world the place the sufferer was overwhelmed with the mop deal with,” Gant stated.
The 5-year-old boy had been repeatedly certain for hours at a time. In a single occasion, his palms have been tied behind his again at 6:43 p.m. one evening, and left that method till 2:02 p.m. the next afternoon.
Shawn Stone
The sufferer had additionally been tied up and positioned in a canine cage, Gant stated, including {that a} widespread type of punishment for him was meals deprivation.
“One other youngster within the residence was pressured to drink boiling water, sprayed with boiling water, and overwhelmed with a number of family objects,” Gant stated. “That youngster additionally witnessed the brutal abuse inflicted on the youthful sufferer.”
A 3rd youngster sufferer in the home was not receiving the right vitamin or take care of a severe medical situation, and was additionally witnessing the fixed abuse, Gant stated.
Investigators’ video proof is backed up with textual content messages and witness interviews, Gant stated.
All three kids have been faraway from the house and positioned in a “secure surroundings” on Could 9, Gant stated.
Chitwood shared a Go-Fund-Me web page to assist the adults who at the moment are caring for the kids.
Glen Hobbs, the organizer of the web page, has supplied a number of updates on the kids’s situations. All three had been launched from the hospital, the place they started consuming usually.
The 5-year-old will want a wheelchair and walker, and “has an extended highway to restoration,” Hobbs stated.
The 8-year-old woman is consuming properly, whereas the oldest boy “is in good spirits and appears wholesome.”
The Go-Fund-Me had raised greater than $8,000 of a $20,000 aim as of late Saturday afternoon.
This text initially appeared on The Daytona Seaside Information-Journal: DeLand-area couple going through dozens of kid abuse, neglect costs