Couple with seven adopted kids 'made them drink water from toilet and tied dog leashes to their bedroom doors'
Couple with 7 adopted kids ‘made them drink water from toilet and tied dog leashes to their bedroom doors’A NEVADA couple was arrested on probable child abuse charges after allegedly forcing their seven adopted children to drink from the toilet after refusing to give them water and monitoring their food intake.
Jonathan Rockwood, 62, and Marlaina Rockwood, 48, of Elko County, Nevada are held on $100,000 bail each and accused of forcing their seven children and ten dogs to live in deplorable conditions.Jonathan M. Rockwood, 62, is alleged to have pinned a teen against a refrigerator while she was being struck by her motherThe Rockwoods reportedly locked up their food and turned off the bathroom sink water supply, all in an effort to surveil their adopted children's consumption of food and water.
When police responded to a call of a runaway girl at the couple's home on July 8, they found the bathroom water valves shut off and alarms on each interior door. Once the girl was found, she told police her adopted mother had hit her in the face several times. Another sibling said Jonathan Rockwood pinned her while Marlaina struck her.report, the girl told police she "has personally observed her siblings drink water from the toilet because they are thirsty."Marlaina R.
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