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Daniel Caler (left) and Annie Caler (Benton County Sheriff’s Office).
An Arkansas mates was arrested for allegedly abusing a teenage miss for years, including sexually assaulting her, forcing her to instrumentality drugs, and denying her food.
Daniel Caler, 34, and Annie Caler, 28, were arrested connected May 9 aft a teen surviving successful their location reported to a schoolhouse counsellor that she was being abused. Court documents obtained by KNWA, a section Fox affiliate, stated that the miss told police she had allegedly been raped repeatedly by Daniel Caler going backmost to August 2020 and lasting until March 2023, erstwhile Annie Caler intervened. However, the miss told constabulary that Annie Caler allegedly inflicted adjacent much abuse.
According to the tribunal documents, the miss claimed to constabulary that Annie Caler allegedly stabbed her successful the cervix with a fork aft the miss failed to cleanable the dishes to her liking. During this incident, Annie Caler reportedly told the girl, “I anticipation you die.”
The miss besides told constabulary that erstwhile she had a breached leg, the mates allegedly refused to instrumentality her to the infirmary for treatment.
While surviving successful the home, the miss told constabulary that she was forced to slumber successful a bathtub without a pillow oregon blankets and was fed conscionable erstwhile a week — reportedly being fixed conscionable a solid of h2o and a Pop-Tart. She told investigators that the mates physically abused her by pushing her into walls and punching and kicking her.
The miss was besides forced by the mates to ingest amerciable drugs including fentanyl, cocaine, methadone and methamphetamine, according to tribunal documents. She stated that Annie Caler allegedly “forced her to snort the drugs astatine slightest 4 times,” according to section CBS affiliate KSFM’s reporting connected the documents.
According to the documents, the miss told constabulary that aft Annie Caler witnessed 1 of the earlier alleged intersexual assaults connected her by Daniel Caler, the mates “talked astir it,” and during that time, Daniel Caler threatened to termination his wife. This, the miss explained to police, was wherefore she hesitated to study her abuse.
The narration was betwixt the miss and the Calers was not instantly clear.
But successful April 2025, the miss told police, she yet felt harmless capable to archer someone, and that she had recovered radical who would support her. She besides reportedly said she could not “live with the guilt reasoning it was her responsibility anymore.”
Daniel Caler and Annie Caler were arrested connected May 9 and booked into the Benton County Detention Center. Daniel Caler was charged with rape, terroristic threatening, endangering the payment of a minor, intersexual assault, and permitting maltreatment of a minor. Annie Caler was charged with instauration of a controlled substance into the assemblage of different person, permitting the maltreatment of a minor, terroristic threatening, battery, and endangering the payment of a minor.
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