LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two parents who kept an 11-year-old child living with autism in a makeshift jail cell will have to serve a year of probation, a judge ordered Wednesday.
In January, Jeffery Scanlan and Misty Scanlan pleaded guilty to one count of child neglect or endangerment, a gross misdemeanor.
Last spring, police performing a welfare check at a home near Wigwam and Green Valley parkways found the boy in a “large metal enclosure” with metal bars and locked doors, “similar to a jail cell,” documents said…