(Tipton County, TN) The Tipton County Sheriff’s Office says three children were imprisoned in a home and only allowed to leave to attend school.
Deputies were sent to a home at 283 Gladney Road in Covington where they found a girl and her 12-year-old sister locked in their bedroom.
There was a portable toilet placed in the room and the windows were screwed shut.
The girls were fed in their rooms and confined until there were allowed to go to school in the mornings.
The 14-year-old brother was housed in an un-insulated storage shed in the backyard which had no electricity or running water.
Another portable toilet was in the shed along with a small space heater.
According to a release, “There were exposed wiring throughout the shed.
The lighting in the living space was a mechanics work lamp on an electrical cord. The boy would be allowed to come inside the residence in the mornings for breakfast before going to school and returned to the shed after school. The investigation revealed that the 14 year-old boy was deemed seriously emotional disturbed.
The investigation revealed the conditions have lasted approximately six months for disciplinary action for the children.”
Custodial adoptive parents Will Earnest Cater, 53, and his wife Wylie Sue Cater, 43 were taken into custody.
Detectives found two fully functioning bathrooms inside the residence.
The children were removed from the custody of the Cater’s and placed in foster care by DCS.
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