Las Vegas Couple Plead Not Guilty to Child Abuse After Boys Found in Dog Cage
The married man and wife who allegedly forced ii immature boys to remain in a padlocked domestic dog cage and abused pentad other children while living inward a Las Vegas extended remain attribute both pleaded not hangdog this week.
Travis Doss, 31, and Amanda Stamper, 33, entered their pleas on Tuesday inward local court. Their cases will presently chief to trial.
Last month, Doss was indicted on 33 minor blackguard and II snatch charges. Stamper was indicted on septet nestling clapperclaw charges and also failing to protect children from substantial corporeal harm.
This week, Stamper remained inwards custody at the Clark County Detention Center without bail bond because of a probation violation. Doss also remained inward custody at the jail. His bail bond is $500K.
The children — ages II to 11 — were found at Extended Stay America on Valley View Boulevard in a messy one-bedroom unit.
The 11-year-old boy inward the coop had “two calamitous eyes that were swollen shut, multiple marks and bruises all over his body, and he was emaciated,” according to a police force write up quoted past Las Vegas TV place KLAS.
He had been allegedly kicked inward the head. Doss told Stamper he may experience killed him, authorities said.
The boy also told police force he was not getting plenty to eat.
He kept saying that he needful handsome food for thought because he was a handsome boy now and that he would have got to part ace big fry from McDonald’s with … all … [the] kids, and just that he was never really fed and that’s why he stole,” a Las Vegas constabulary officer told a grand jury, the New House of York Post reported.
His 9-year-old comrade was also kept in the cage.
Children Whipped
Doss was “violent towards all the children” except a two-year-old, Stamper told police.
He allegedly struck the kids with “belts, file name extension cords, skillets, his custody and feet,” according to law reports, quoted by KLAS. “Amanda said all the children are covered with marks from their make out down.”
Doss was identified as the male parent of all heptad of the children found in the unit. Stamper, who is pregnant, is the stepmother to sextuplet of the children and the fuss of the two-year-old, police said.
After they were discovered, the children were placed with the Nevada Department of Children and Families.
Two dogs were in the apartment, too. They were placed with a local fauna hold in office.
The situation came to light source when Stamper, who allegedly worked as a working girl for Doss, confided inwards an employee at a local Walgreens pharmacy that Doss “threatened to obliterate her,” news reports revealed. She also told the employee most the experimental condition of the children.
The employee called the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD).
Maintenance Worker Helped Cops
When police arrived on June 11, the children did non instantly clear a door for officers. But a criminal maintenance worker, Keith Archibald, 43, eventually got one of the boys to unlock the door.
Later, Archibald saw the older boy inwards the cage.
He was weak,” Archibald told KLAS. “He looked ilk he was starving, and he was beaten really bad. Bruises everywhere.”
Archibald was able-bodied to slashed the padlock and and so helped the officers take away the caged boys.
“It was Supreme Being with me on that one,” Archibald said. “Something told me to speak to these kids because I’m a male parent myself.”
Doss Was Rapper
Doss, who was trying to suit a rapper, was using the figure professionally of “Trap Montana,” according to the Post.
He revealed on societal media he spent “bricks” of hard currency and lived the like a “hustler,” the Post reported.
He also is charged with sexuality trafficking and “living sour the earnings of a prostitute,” the Post added.
Extended Stay America did not ply quick remark to local media.