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Iowa father locks 8-year-old boy in dark basement without food for months while girlfriend films torture

Authorities claimed the couple "intentionally subjected" the child to "physical and mental torture" in basement of their house for at least nine hours per day for around 2 months
UPDATED FEB 7, 2019

A woman in Iowa accused of helping her boyfriend allegedly torture his eight-year-old son also filmed the alleged abuse in the basement of their house.

Forty-year-old Traci Lynn Tyler and her 30-year-old boyfriend Alex Craig Shadow are on trial after being charged last year with first-degree kidnapping. Authorities claimed that the couple "intentionally subjected" the child to "physical and mental torture" in a six-by-six-foot area underneath the basement stairs for at least nine hours per day from July till September 2017.

The Daily Mail reported that the basement did not have a light, furniture, or even bedding for the child and he was forced to urinate into a tin coffee can. Prosecutors also said that the child wasn't given food while he was in the basement.

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