OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) — A couple was arrested for child abuse after allegedly beating several children in the home over a few years. The years-long investigation details the accusations against Deborah Mainus and John Charles Gould.
Court documents explain one of the children told police they were sexually abused by Mainus along with being forced to do “military-style” workouts as punishment.
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The child also alleged Mainus would punch, choke, and hit them.
The documents go on to say in 2022, an extended family member became suspicious and noticed bruises on the child’s face and back.
Later in the investigation, another child told police Mainus’s punishments were “above and beyond.”
The child told officers they would have to stand on frozen meat packs in the garage until their feet went numb. The papers also detail that Mainus would hit the kids with spoons, wooden paddles, and hangers leaving bruises.