Dougherty Co. police continue investigation on child locked in room
Dougherty Co. police continuing investigation on child locked in room By Molly Godley | February 19, 2021 at 8:08 PM EST - Updated February 19 at 8:40 PM
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Dougherty County police are working to find answers after five children were taken from a home, where they said child abuse was happening.
Investigators say they will continue to conduct interviews and find out more background information to try and find a motive.
“We don’t always get those in crimes against children cases, but that’s the goal is to find if there was a motive and what was it,” said Detective Cpl. Calvin Hodge Jr.
Parents accused of locking boy in laundry room arrested
Albany, Georgia (Albany Herald) A Dougherty County couple arrested this week in a child-abuse case are accused of holding a 12-year-old boy in what police described as “inhumane” conditions and could face additional charges.
Gwendolyn Warren and Gary Thomas Warren were each charged Wednesday with one count of false imprisonment and cruelty to children in the first degree.
The 12-year-old apparently had been locked inside a laundry room and held for long periods of time, the Dougherty County Police Department said.
Officers began the investigation as a missing juvenile case involving the boy. They discovered there were four other children living in the residence.
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