Parents Charged After Forcing Teen to Live in Outside Shed as Discipline

Parents of a 15-year-old girl were arrested and charged with child abuse after they forced their daughter to live in an outside shed for disciplinary reasons. The teen wrote a note for her neighbor and left it in the door, but requested she withhold the communication from her mother. The girl asked the neighbor, Kim Wilkinson, to meet her outside and informed her that she needed assistance and something to eat.

Wilkinson observed from the note that the teen was locked out of the home she shared with her family and forced to use a garden hose to wash herself. Disturbed by what she witnessed, in addition to the teen’s request, the neighbor contacted the Fairfield County deputy sheriffs to investigate the girl’s parents.

Douglas and Kim Sherman were both taken into custody after they were accused of locking the teen outside of their home located at 10200 … click HERE to continue reading