Grandparents sentenced in child abuse case
Posted: 6:19 PM EDT July 26, 2010
Updated: 6:41 PM EDT July 26, 2010
Chesterfield County, S.C. -- If it wasn't for a neighbor, three young boys might still be trapped in a situation prosecutors called torturous.
"They were beaten with hoses and whips," said assistant solicitor Kendall Burch. "They used the bathroom in a bucket which they had to dump out themselves. It was torture."
On Monday morning, 59-year-old James Crawford and 55-year-old Cheri Crawford stood in a Chesterfield County courtroom and entered an Alford plea to three counts of unlawful neglect of a child.
An Alford plea does not admit guilt, but acknowledges that the evidence would likely convict them in a trial.
Those three counts are for each of their three grandsons, who were 12, 11, and 8 when the abuse was first discovered last July.
Chesterfield County's sherriff's detectives said a neighbor on Press Walters Road near Hartsville, saw Cheri Crawford on a golf cart chasing down her 8-year-old grandson. She was screaming at him and the boy was crying, the neighbor said. That neighbor called authorities, who then uncovered what they said was the worst case of child abuse they'd ever seen.
HOW SAD!!
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