A Washington state woman who once ran a daycare is accused of subjecting her 7-year-old stepson to a horrifying punishment regime, which included forcing him to swallow Dawn dish soap and putting hot sauce up his nose.
Renee Leon, of Burien, is charged with three counts of second-degree assault of a child in a domestic violence case that prosecutors say revolved around punishing her stepson in a number of sickening ways.
Court documents obtained by Law&Crime outline how Leon allegedly bound the boy’s hands for days, shoved her nails underneath his chin, and forced him to sleep on a “mat with no blanket” in a “walled-off” area of a bedroom away from his brothers while monitoring him with Ring cameras…