‘I Couldn’t Get Out’: 9-Year-Old Iowa Boy Clutching Stuffed Animal Tells Judge Couple Locked Him Under Basement Stairs
ELDORA, Iowa (KRVR) — A 9-year-old boy clutched a stuffed animal as he told a judge that his father’s girlfriend often withheld food and helped lock him under a staircase in the basement at their Iowa home. “I couldn’t get out” of the basement enclosure, the boy testified Wednesday in an Eldora courtroom at the bench trial of 40-year-old Traci…
