This is the moment Las Vegas Metro police discovered ‘the worst’ case of child abuse they have seen, with six horrifically abused children, including two locked in a cage.
Officers responding to a domestic violence callout on June 11 found two children, aged nine and eleven, locked in a dog cage and another four severely beaten in an apartment near Flamingo Road and Valley View Boulevard.
One of the children had ‘two black eyes that were swollen shut, multiple marks and bruises all over his body, and he was emaciated,’ police said. The child was in such a state that his father thought he had beaten him to death.
The children’s father Travis Doss, 31, has been charged with more than 40 offenses, including several counts of child abuse, and for sex trafficking his wife.
His wife Amanda Stamper, 33, is facing seven charges of child abuse, one for each child, including the two-year-old daughter who is the only one she biologically shares with Doss.
Las Vegas Police discovered six severely abused children including two locked in a dog cage in a one-bedroom apartment last month
Amanda Stamper, 33, (left) and Travis Doss, 31, (right) have been indicted on child abuse charges and have both pled not guilty
The couple shared the one-bedroom, one-bathroom extended-stay apartment with seven children under the age of 11 and have now been indicted by a Clark County grand jury.
The disturbing footage, first obtained by 8NewsNow, shows officers attempting to enter the bolted apartment before discovering the dreadful conditions within.
Once officers had entered their flashlights revealed children locked in cages while a pitbull roamed free.
The officers led the children out of the apartment into the daylight where they began to detail their abuse, including being beaten by their father with belts, cords and even a frying pan.
The emaciated child in the cage said he was not given sufficient food despite being a ‘big boy now’ and would have to share ‘one large fry from McDonalds’ with his siblings or eat food ‘in the trash’.
‘He hit my face in the cage because I was squished up trying to get out of the cage because I didn’t do anything and I was freaking out,’ the child tells officers in the video.
The horrifying discovery occurred after police were called to a Walgreens store across the road from the apartment where Stamper was hiding from her husband because ‘he threatened to kill her’, 8News Now reported.
Stamper told officers that Doss had shown her a picture of the child from the cage and said he had kicked the child in the head so hard he thought he was dead.
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One of the children in the cage had ‘two black eyes that were swollen shut, multiple marks and bruises all over his body, and he was emaciated,’
Travis Doss allegedly said he had beaten one child so badly he thought he was dead inside the cage
Amanda Stamper alleges she was sex trafficked and violently abused by Doss
Bodycam footage shows Las Vegas Metro police attempting to access the apartment where they discovered ‘the worst case’ of child abuse they have seen
The children, all under 11, were beaten and scared for the abuse they had endured
Stamper reportedly told police she believed the child ‘looked dead for the last five days.’
She then told the officers what they would find in the couple’s apartment.
Stamper told 8 News Now that she was the victim of severe domestic abuse and was not able to seek help because she was scared of Doss and his retaliation if she did.
‘I was abused as well, not just them. He would use my children and my family if I was ever to call the police like he would go find my family and my kids, he’s just a really violent person’ she later told the outlet.
‘I know they were terrified,’ Stamper, who is currently pregnant, said.
She said she eventually managed to call the police because she wanted them to be safe. ‘I’m sorry I didn’t do it sooner’ she added.
Stamper’s public defender said that she had not beaten the children herself, as ‘if she had done anything, she would have been subjected to serious, serious abuse.’
Prosecutors said they were aware that Stamper worked as a sex worker at Doss’ direction but that she was aware of the alleged abuse.
Both Doss and Stamper appeared in court on Tuesday, and have pled not guilty.
