Couple who allegedly locked children in stacked cages and horse trough say they were trying to 'protect them'
A couple from Wisconsin has been arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, child neglect, and false imprisonment after police officers found their children locked inside cages. 46-year-old Travis Lanier Headrick and 39-year-old Amy Michelle Headrick were charged by the authorities in Monroe County on nine felony counts and have been ordered to not make any contact with the children.
According to the criminal complaint, officers searched the couple's home on August 27 in Melvina, a village in Monroe County, Wisconsin after they received a complaint that children were kept locked in cages and a horse trough on the property. The authorities were also given a photo of a small boy in the horse trough which had metal fencing covering it and was secured with zip ties.