Spotsylvania Couple Pleads Guilty To Locking Kids in Room: Reports

Images: Conditions inside the couple’s home; Scott Suggs; Brandy Kangas (Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office).

A Spotsylvania couple who forced their three young children to live in a locked room will not serve any time in jail, after pleading guilty last week to child neglect, according to media reports.

Twenty-eight-year-old Scott Suggs and 36-year-old Brandy Kangas were charged with three counts of felony child neglect in December after police detectives found the children during an investigation at their home. A 17-month-old boy, a three-year-old girl and a four-year-old girl were confined to the sparsely furnished room that was in disarray and had stains, including those of urine and feces.

Authorities say the children were fed through an opening in a homemade “gate.” They were removed from the home and placed in foster care.

A woman who lived with the couple told WRC-TV Channel 4 on Friday that she never heard them get a bath in three months.

On March 30, Suggs and Kangas pleaded guilty to three counts of felony child neglect. They were sentenced to six years, which was suspended, 10 years of good behavior and indefinite supervised probation, according to media reports. They also must comply with the Department of Social Services foster care plan, including no unsupervised contact with the children.

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