"She was just beating me with it if there was nothing else in the room she could find. The victim took the stand and testified to how her brother threw baby formula on her face and one cousin beat her with a curtain rod. Hanrahan. Boon-Bey represented himself while his wife Felicia Boon was represented by William Sulton.
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Seven months after her ordeal ended, her father and stepmother's trial began July 22 - in front of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael J. "I knew I was going to get out before it was too late," she said. On the stand, the girl told the jury escape was her only option. 5, when Cudahy Police Officer Adam Frick responded to a call about a girl throwing boiling water on another girl at her parents' house in the 3600 block of East Lunham Avenue.įrick, who left but returned after receiving more information at the station, testified that as he climbed the stairs inside the home, ignoring several family members' insistence that the girl was fine, the smell of urine hit him like a wave, burning his eyes and nose.Īs the girl emerged from her bedroom, bruised, scratched and shifting from swollen foot to swollen foot, she told Frick she was afraid to remain in the home and he took her to the police station. On the stand, she relayed how her cousin and siblings beat her after Boon-Bey, her father, and Boon, her stepmother, authorized them to "discipline" her.
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The trial was filled with appalling details of the abuse inflicted on the child by her family: burns from scalding water thrown down her back infections from being forced to eat in the same bowl she was forced to defecate in malnutrition so severe she could not eat full meals and liver damage putting her in danger of renal failure. Both were found not guilty of chronic neglect of a child causing bodily harm. Felicia Boon was also found guilty of causing physical harm to a child.
The couple were facing six counts of causing physical and mental harm and conspiring to commit physical and emotional abuse to the 15-year-old girl.īoth were found guilty of causing mental harm, chronic neglect causing emotional damage and false imprisonment. The jury hearing the child abuse case against 47-year-old Kevin Boon-Bey and his 34-year-old wife, Felicia Boon, came to that decision following a full day of deliberation and a week's worth of evidence and testimony.
They were found not guilty on two chronic neglect counts. A Cudahy couple were convicted Wednesday in a horrific child abuse case in which they allowed other children to brutally abuse their then 15-year-old daughter, calling it "discipline."
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