Wyo. — (KUSA) Authorities in Wyoming are pressing felony charges against a man and a woman alleging they kept a 7-year-old child in an outdoor cage.The child’s mother, Jena Harman, and her boyfriend, Alexander Smith, face one count each of child abuse and three counts each of felonious restraint.The pair were arrested July 24 after Albany County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a tip that the child was caged outside their home. Deputies went to the pair’s property on multiple occasions starting in February of this year.Deputies said the child reported living in the 6-by-6-foot cage on and off for three weeks, taking meals there and sleeping there overnight, even during rainstorms.Read more: http://on9news.tv/UVA2zl

Albany County, Child Abuse, Felony Charges, Wyoming

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