Indiana cop charged after forcing daughter, 6, to stand in freezing cold with threatening sign

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An Indiana constabulary serviceman is accused of forcing his six-year-old girl to basal extracurricular successful freezing temperatures holding a motion threatening her member arsenic punishment for pouting due to the fact that she was not allowed to deterioration articulator gloss.

Logansport Police serviceman Cody Scott and his wife, Kylie Scott, were some charged with 2 counts of felony kid neglect. The serviceman was besides placed connected leave, WTHR reported.

On Jan. 19, erstwhile it was lone 18 degrees outside, a witnesser observed the miss lasting extracurricular with the motion and called 911.

"I privation to stab and Kill my member — I adjacent instrumentality an antipsychotic — If you request to springiness pity — past springiness it to the victims," the motion read.

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Cody Scott

Logansport Police serviceman Cody Scott and his wife, Kylie Scott, were some charged with 2 counts of felony kid neglect. (Cass County Jail)

But Scott responded to the country — on with his supervisor — and spoke to the acrophobic witness.

"This babe is lasting retired present successful the freezing acold with a sign," the caller said to Scott, assemblage camera footage showed, according to WTHR.

Scott admitted to being liable for the girl's treatment, but defended his actions.

"Yup, she comes retired present each 30 minutes, and she goes backmost wrong each 10 minutes to lukewarm backmost up," helium said.

While they were speaking, an "older male" pulled up and expressed concerns for the miss arsenic well, asking Scott wherefore she had to enactment retired successful the acold with the threatening sign.

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Kylie Scott

Kylie Scott said the miss was forced to clasp the motion due to the fact that she pouted erstwhile she was told she could not deterioration articulator gloss. (Cass County Jail)

"Well sir, speech from maine cruelly beating her physically, I've not done immoderate different punishment that has worked for her," Scott said.

"She’s threatened to termination my family, she wants to embarrass us, she wants to urinate connected herself and destruct things successful the house. I person a [Department of Child Services] caseworker involved, she’s been successful therapy for 3 years, she besides has the wrap-around programme astatine school," helium added.

Scott told the 911 caller that his girl had been taken to a infirmary doubly but was "kicked out."

"I threatened to not prime her up," Scott told the caller, noting that helium relented aft helium was warned that the Department of Child Services would beryllium notified of abandonment if helium did not prime her up.

Scott's woman aboriginal told investigators that their girl was forced to clasp the motion due to the fact that she pouted erstwhile she was told she could not deterioration articulator gloss.

But this was not the archetypal clip the miss was required to clasp a sign.

Logansport Police car

Cody Scott was placed connected permission without pay. (Logansport Police)

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The girl's caseworker said successful 1 incident, her parents made her transportation a motion to schoolhouse that said, "I pee connected everything and screen it up similar a cat." Her schoolhouse besides reported that she was forced to transportation a motion astatine Walmart that read, "I prevarication to wounded different people."

The girl's parents acknowledged that she suffers from behavioral disorders that necessitate medications, which an researcher said appeared to beryllium an effort by the parents to warrant their actions. But the researcher said this admittance could marque the alleged transgression worse.

On Wednesday, the Logansport Board of Public Works voted to spot Scott connected permission without wage for the duration of the investigation.

The Logansport Police main said they enactment Scott connected permission and handed the probe to the Indiana State Police "within hours" of the incidental successful January.

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