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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Andrea Cavallier

Mom who kept her adopted son locked in a ‘box’ avoids prison after admitting to her crime

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A Florida mother accused of locking her adopted teenage son in a box will not serve any prison time after pleading guilty to a slew of child neglect charges.

Tracy Ferriter, 48, and her husband, Timothy Ferriter, allegedly kept the boy, who was 14 years old at the time, in a windowless 8-foot by 8-foot box in the garage of their Jupiter home with only a bed, a bucket and a camera. The only time he was allowed out was to go to school.

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