A couple of wannabe bodybuilders in South Carolina forced their teen daughter to live in the woods as punishment for eating a Pop-Tart, authorities say.
Crystal and James Driggers were arrested Friday and charged with neglect after police say they found the couple’s 14-year-old in a tent about a quarter-mile from their rural Dalzell home. The girl’s grandmother had called police, according to the arrest report.
The Driggers, who were released after a bond hearing on Monday, did not respond to requests for comment.
“They were upset because the child ate a Pop-Tart,” Braden Bunch of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office told The Daily Beast.
On Thursday morning, according to the sheriff’s office, the iron-pumping parents banished the girl to the nearby woods, which are stomping grounds for wild hogs. They allegedly provided her only with a roll of toilet paper, a flashlight, a whistle and a watch for her outdoor sentence, which was supposed to last a week.
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