(EDITOR’S NOTE: Names of those charged are being withheld to protect the ID of the victim.)
Three relatives of an abused female juvenile have been arrested following an investigation that began April 28 when an Oakwood police officer responded to a call about a missing juvenile.
“…while investigating a separate case where the Victim ran away from home,” he wrote in his report, “it was discovered the victim was involved in an on-going verbal and physical family violence incident that began (a day earlier). The incident continued into the morning hours of 04/28/24, ultimately leading to the juvenile victim running away from home for her own safety. The juvenile was safely recovered, and this investigation was initiated.”
Wednesday, Oakwood Detective Sgt. Stewart Webb summed up the follow-up investigation and what it uncovered.
“Basically, the juvenile was being physically and emotionally abused over an extended period of time by multiple family members causing her to run away from home, repeatedly,” Sgt. Webb said. “The follow-up investigation resulted in multiple arrest warrants for several family members in the home. The juvenile victim was removed from the home by DFACS (the state Department of Family and Children Services).”
Webb added that the cases against the three suspects are now working their way through the court system.
The three are a 25-year-old woman charged with:
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
BATTERY
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN/NEGLIGENTLY
A 45-year-old woman charged with:
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
POSSESSION OF FIREARM OR KNIFE DURING COMMISSION OF A CRIME
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
And a 28-year-old man charged with:
TERRORISTIC THREATS AND ACTS
INFLUENCING WITNESS
The two women are from Oakwood, the man from out-of-state.