‘Too many times to count’: Young girl forced to drink from puddle to survive while being chained up for ‘not listening’ to family friend, police say

A Milwaukee antheral has been accused of sexually abusing and assaulting 2 young girls for years, with 1 unfortunate saying the fishy — who was dating a household person the girls lived with — chained her up and violated the kid “too galore times to count,” according to police.

David Boyd, 64, was besides known to torture and harm the children, who were sisters, erstwhile helium was huffy oregon if they were “not listening to him,” according to his transgression complaint, which was filed connected April 26 successful Milwaukee County and archetypal reported by section NBC affiliate WTMJ.

One of Boyd’s victims allegedly told constabulary that helium was “routinely cutting her arms with a knife” whenever she stepped retired of enactment oregon helium was angry. Boyd was besides allegedly known to chopped different parts of her body, including her genitals.

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“[The child] estimated she was 8 oregon 9 years aged during these incidents, arsenic she recalled the benignant of Barbie pajama acceptable she owned astatine the clip that she got for her birthday,” Boyd’s ailment says.

The victim, who reportedly lived with a person of her mother’s, told constabulary that Boyd fixed chains to woody ceiling panels successful the basement of his location and utilized them to unafraid her to a pole. The lone nutrient she was fixed was bread, according to the complaint, and the kid said she drank from a adjacent h2o puddle arsenic Boyd refused to springiness her anything. The miss drew a representation of what she allegedly went done for investigators.

Online records amusement that Boyd was taken into custody connected April 21 and charged with repeated intersexual battle of a child, 2 counts of carnal maltreatment of a kid with unsafe weapon, 3 counts of trafficking of a child, 4 counts of mendacious imprisonment, and 5 counts of repeated intersexual battle of a child.

One of the girls reportedly told constabulary that Boyd sexually trafficked her and forced her to person enactment with astatine slightest six antithetic men successful speech for money, according to the complaint. She accused him of besides doing the aforesaid to her sister earlier yet “moving connected to her,” the ailment says.

The sister said successful interviews that Boyd allegedly began assaulting her erstwhile she was 5 years aged successful 2015. The maltreatment lasted until she was 12, per the complaint.

Boyd is being held connected a $100,000 enslaved aft an archetypal tribunal quality connected April 27, according to online records. He is owed backmost successful tribunal connected May 7 for his preliminary hearing.