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12-year-old ‘restrained’ to bed, forced to eat cat food: DA

homesafetytechpros — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:49:24 +0000

Stacey Ann Louder (left) and Amanda Lynn Gregorio (Luzerne County Correctional Facility).

Two Pennsylvania women were accused of horrifically abusing a 12-year-old girl — and the alleged abusers were her own mother and grandmother.

Stacey Ann Louder, 52, and Amanda Lynn Gregorio, 35, were arrested on Monday following an investigation that began in September 2024. According to arrest reports obtained by local news outlet The Citizen’s Voice, the girl was first taken into custody by Luzerne County Children, Youth and Families after she was hospitalized for seizure-like symptoms. During the visit, Gregorio — the girl’s mother — allegedly admitted to giving the girl 50 mg of Benadryl and 60 mg of melatonin before she began showing symptoms.

From there, investigators uncovered more about the girl’s home life.

According to the arrest reports, the girl’s trip to the hospital sparked concern among the medical professionals who treated her. They suspected abuse based on injuries she had including bruising and scars from being restrained to her bed.

The girl was asked about being restrained by police, and she told them it “hurt” and “made her mad.” She also reportedly told police that she was forced to relieve herself while restrained in her bed, where she would remain for long periods of time. According to the report, Louder and Gregorio installed cameras in the girl’s room to make sure she didn’t escape.

The alleged abuse extended to forcing the girl to eat cat food, which Gregorio admitted to a witness on the phone, authorities said. The witness also said that Gregorio told her she didn’t like restraining her daughter, but that Louder — Gregorio’s mother and the alleged victim’s grandmother — was “making” her do it.

Prosecutors said that the girl’s weight had dropped to 50 lbs.

Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce said in a statement, “The abuse of this child offends the sense of decency of every mother, grandmother, and otherwise respectable person imaginable. Once again, the very people to whom this child would look to keep her safe, were her assailants.”

Louder and Gregorio were each charged with aggravated assault of a victim less than 13, conspiracy, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, endangering the welfare of children, recklessly endangering another person, simple assault and tampering with evidence. They were held on $125,000 cash bail at Luzerne County Correctional Facility.

Both women are due in court on May 6.

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Man tried to kidnap 4-year-old boy at Walmart, deputies say

homesafetytechpros — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:55:46 +0000

A man is accused of trying to abduct a young boy in the middle off a Walmart.

Pablo Pintueles Hernandez is charged with false imprisonment of a child 13 years old and under, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida announced.

Surveillance footage shows a man walk up to a small child. He began to pull the boy away until a woman leapt forward and grabbed the child back, pulling him behind a nearby shopping cart. Deputies claim Pintueles Hernandez is that man.

Authorities said they responded to a Walmart on Friday in the community of Lehigh Acres. It was regarding an attempted kidnapping, they said.

They said they learned that a man, later identified as Pintueles Hernandez, tried to abduct a 4-year-old boy from the child’s family by grabbing and walking away with him.

“Deputies immediately reviewed the surveillance footage and confirmed an unknown man walked up to the child shopping with his family, grabbed his wrist, and forced him to go in his direction before a family member intervened and pulled the child back,” deputies said. “Deputies tirelessly worked alongside our Real Time Intelligence Center Analysts to identify the suspect. Together, analysts and deputies utilized advanced technology to quickly identify and locate Pintueles Hernandez. Within an hour of the incident, deputies responded to the residence of Pintueles Hernandez where his identity was confirmed. Due to the nature of the crime, our Major Crimes Unit detectives responded to the home and began investigating.”

Detectives claim they confirmed that Pintueles Hernandez did in fact grab the child’s wrist, pulled him, and said, “let’s go.” The defendant is accused of restraining the boy’s movement and directing him to walk with him.

“What this criminal did is incredibly disturbing,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said. “I never want anyone in Lee County to feel unsafe, especially going on a simple shopping trip. My team will stop at NOTHING to ensure criminals like this face the consequences of their actions.”

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Man kept missing teen in ‘trap door’ in his room: Cops

homesafetytechpros — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:53:46 +0000

Zackary Keith Jones (Pulaski County Jail)

A 34-year-old man in Kentucky is facing a slew of felonies after authorities say they found a 16-year-old girl from North Carolina — who had been reported missing nearly a month ago — hidden inside a trap door in his bedroom that had been covered with a rug.

Zackary Keith Jones was taken into custody on Christmas Day and charged with third-degree rape, third-degree sodomy, assault, strangulation, domestic assault of a minor, sex with a minor, and false imprisonment, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Charlotte, North Carolina, NBC affiliate WCNC, deputies with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 25 responded to a domestic violence call at a home in the 1400 block of Robertstown Road. The caller, identified as Jones’ mother, told the dispatcher that her son and his “girlfriend” had been in an altercation.

Upon arriving at the scene, first responders said they encountered Jones, who told them his girlfriend was no longer home. However, Jones’ mother told deputies that the girl had never left the property, Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL reported.

Deputies said they then saw Jones attempting to destroy drugs and drug paraphernalia by tossing everything into a wood stove in his bedroom, according to Lexington, Kentucky, NBC affiliate WLEX. Jones was then taken into custody and placed in the back of a sheriff’s cruiser while deputies searched the home for the female.

“Officers found her inside a trap door that was hidden under a rug in the bedroom,” the affidavit reportedly states. The document also reportedly said that the missing teen was “very high” when she was discovered in the hidden compartment.

The girl reportedly told deputies on the scene that she was the same girl who had been reported missing from Fayetteville, North Carolina, earlier in the month.

In an interview with police, the girl said she and Jones met online where he claimed that he was 19 years old, WLEX reported. He then picked her up from her grandmother’s house in North Carolina and brought her back to Kentucky. She reportedly said that when she got back to his home in Kentucky, she learned that he was 34 and he demanded that she tell his family she was 18 or he would “take a 22-pistol and kill her.” He reportedly made similar threats multiple times.

The victim also reportedly claimed that she and Jones were pulled over on their way from North Carolina to Kentucky. During the traffic stop, she said Jones told her he was going to shoot the deputy who performed the stop if he told them to get out of the vehicle.

In a post-Miranda interview with detectives, Jones admitted to having sexual intercourse with the 16-year-old at least 10 times and to giving her drugs such as crack cocaine and marijuana, WRAL reported.

Jones is currently being held in the Pulaski County Jail without bond. He will reportedly also face multiple criminal charges in North Carolina. Those charges had not been filed as of Friday.

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