Parents kept 11-year-old son with autism in enclosure ‘similar to a jail cell’ for 6 years in feces-filled home

Insets, top to bottom: Jeffery Scanlan and Misty Scanlan (Henderson Police Department). Background: The home where their son was found in a feces-filled enclosure (KLAS).

Insets, top to bottom: Jeffery Scanlan and Misty Scanlan (Henderson Police Department). Background: The home where their son was found in a feces-filled enclosure (KLAS).

Two Nevada parents admitted to locking their 11-year-old son who has autism in an enclosure “similar to a jail cell” for six years in a case uncovered when a truancy officer went to the home after the boy hadn’t shown up for school.

Jeffery Scanlan and Misty Scanlan pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor child neglect charge, online court records show.

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