Henderson Police have arrested a couple after an 11-year-old child diagnosed with autism was found in a makeshift ‘jail cell’ after being reported absent from school.
A Nevada couple was arrested after police found a boy with autism locked in a 'makeshift jail cell,' and their three other children living in a decaying home that wreaked from 'feces,' according to arrest reports obtained by KLAS. On April 23rd, at approximately 10:15 a.m., the City of Henderson Police Department responded to a home in reference to a truancy issue involving a student.
The arrest report stated that a Clark County School District police officer told Henderson police that no one answered when they knocked on the Scanlan family's door, but said they could hear a child screaming and what they described as a 'gate rattling.' Nearly 40 minutes went by before Jeffery Scanlan answered the door and then told police that his children were not in school because they were sick, the report said.
Two of the other children reportedly told police that they tried to clean the 'makeshift jail cell' and house once a week, but that it had been several weeks since they last cleaned. Both bedrooms also only had exterior locks with no way to open from the inside, according to the report.
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