Couple locked 7-year-old non-verbal boy with autism in storage trunk with urine-soaked blankets, half-eaten pizza: Cops

Sean and Mikki Moody

Left: Sean Moody. Right: Mikki Moody (Carter County Sheriff’s Office)

Authorities in Tennessee arrested a couple who allegedly locked a 7-year-old non-verbal boy with autism in a storage locker in an “unsanitary” home.

According to a press release from the Carter County Sheriff’s Office, deputies serving a search warrant on an unrelated case at a home in the 300 block of Blevins Hollow Road, Elizabethton in western Tennessee “discovered evidence of child abuse.” Cops arrested Mikki Dee Moody, 36, and Sean David Moody, 39, for aggravated child abuse and neglect and child endangerment.

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