8-year-old locked in basement by father and his partner had U-shaped bruises from being hit with fly swatter
The child was locked in a dark basement with a bare cement floor without food for up to nine hours every day by father Alex Shadlow and his partner Traci Tyler
The horrific torture inflicted on an eight-year-old boy by his father and his partner who locked him up in a basement for close to half-a-day at a time has been detailed to the court.
According to the Des Moines Register, 30-year-old Alex Shadlow and his girlfriend, 40-year-old Traci Tyler, were arrested in Ackley, Iowa on Wednesday, 18 July, and charged with first-degree kidnapping for regularly keeping the former's son confined in a 6-foot-by-6-foot area under the basement stairs.
The child, whose identity has not been revealed due to his minor status, was left with no food for up to nine hours at a time in the summer of 2017. The basement enclosure had no light and a bare cement floor.