LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two mother and father who saved an 11-year-old little one dwelling 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 1 depend of kid neglect or endangerment, a gross misdemeanor.
Final spring, police performing a welfare verify at a house close to Wigwam and Inexperienced Valley parkways discovered the boy in a “large metal enclosure” with steel 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 advised police that the kid was identified with “severe autism spectrum disorder.” Three different kids have been within the dwelling when police arrived.
As a part of the plea settlement, the utmost sentence Clark County District Court docket Decide 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 advised police the enclosure was within the dwelling for six years, paperwork mentioned.
