Half-million dollar bond set in Cheyenne child abuse case; ‘torture or cruel confinement’ alleged

Half-million dollar bond set in Cheyenne child abuse case; ‘torture or cruel confinement’ alleged

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A Cheyenne couple has been charged with emotionally and physically abusing a 14-year-old boy, including by instructing him to drink water until he suffered an acute medical episode that doctors said would have killed him if untreated. Investigators said the boy was essentially banished to a barren barren basement where he washed his own clothes in the bathtub and only came upstairs for only for meals, which he consumed while sta…

Half-million dollar bond set in Cheyenne child abuse case; 'torture or cruel confinement' alleged

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A Cheyenne couple has been charged with emotionally and physically abusing a 14-year-old boy, including by instructing him to drink water until he suffered an acute medical episode that doctors said would have killed him if untreated. Investigators said the boy was essentially banished to a barren barren basement where he washed his own clothes in the bathtub and only came upstairs for only for meals, which he consumed while sta…