A Texas woman has been charged with locking her 22-year-old special needs daughter in a cage in her backyard.
Kandy Thompson, 60, was arrested Saturday after a neighbor called police and recorded video as he confronted Thompson over the action, according to KTAB.
She was initially charged with injury to a child, but on Tuesday she was also charged with aggravated kidnapping, injury to a disabled person, unlawful restraint, endangering a disabled person, and assault/family violence.
The new charges came after Anson Police officers “completed additional interviews, reviewed statements, and evaluated all evidence collected on the scene.”
In the video recorded by the neighbor, the young woman can be heard crying and screaming that she’s scared from the cage as the neighbor confronts Thompson; he comforts her after police arrive. She has been “removed from the unsafe environment and is receiving appropriate care and protective services,” police said.
A local newspaper reported that Thompson and her late husband cared for dozens of children with special needs over several decades. The state Department of Family Protective Services said none of the fosters came through their agency.
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