Parents 'confined' their child in wooden box, kept other kid in playpen for 20 hours and refused to bathe any of them: Police

Two parents successful Oklahoma are accused of keeping 1 of their children successful a woody container and different successful a playpen for hours connected end, portion besides refusing to cleanable the children.

Sara Tudor, 46, and Michael Brown, 43, are each charged with 3 counts of child neglect, the District 21 District Attorney's Office successful Oklahoma announced. They were each booked into the Garvin County Jail.

On July 27, a schoolteacher successful Garvin County, Oklahoma, contacted the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) astir 3 children — ages 9, 8 and 4. According to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), the teacher told authorities officials that she "was acrophobic for their well-being."

The DA's bureau was apprised of the situation, and connected July 31, it asked OSBI to analyse what was happening to the children.

Agents began investigating, and they identified the children's parents arsenic Tudor and Brown.

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Human Services officials "learned that 1 of the children was confined to a woody container and the different was confined to a playpen for astatine slightest 20 hours," authorities said. "They besides learned the children were not fed decently and did not person showers oregon baths."

State officials aboriginal removed the children from the location and placed them with foster families. The children were medically evaluated, with professionals determining that "each suffered from intelligence maltreatment owed to confinement and infantilization."

Furthermore, the children "suffered from maltreatment owed to the inadequate carnal attraction and hazardous surviving conditions," authorities said.

On Oct. 8, Tudor and Brown were arrested. It is unclear erstwhile they are owed to look successful court.

Garvin County is located successful south-central Oklahoma, astir 60 miles southbound of Oklahoma City.