She was his mother, and she locked him in a bathroom – and then left him there for a year. Her name is Brandy K. Jaynes, 36, and she is from Toquerville, Utah.
Jaynes was arrested and charged with second-degree aggravated felony child abuse. The boy’s father was the one who found him. He weighed only 30 pounds and wasn’t able to stand up.
Lt. David Crouse from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said the boy looked like a victim from a concentration camp. What kind of a mother locks her child in a room and then just leaves him there for a year? What was she thinking?
Inside the bathroom was one blanket, empty cans of beans, and a monitor so the boy could be watched from outside the tiny room. According to reports, there was feces scattered around the room too.
All the lights in the switch in the room was in duct tape so the lights couldn’t be turned on. This took planning and a lot of hatred. There were two other children in the home who have been removed – they were the siblings of the boy in the bathroom.
As a pitiful sort of defense for her actions, Jaynes said the boy was in there because he liked to sleep in there. She also said it was for his own safety that he be locked in there when she left the house. The boy is expected to recover, he will spend a few weeks in the hospital.
Share away, people.