A police officer and his wife have been arrested after allegedly forcing their six-year-old daughter to stand outside in freezing conditions holding a disturbing sign.
Cody Scott. Credit: Cass County Jail
Cody Scott, 33, and his wife Kylie Scott, from Indiana, have both been charged with two counts of felony child neglect after a passerby saw the little girl standing in the snow with the sign and called 911 on January 19.
The six-year-old was standing in 18-degree weather holding a sign that allegedly read: “I want to stab and kill my brother — I even take an antipsychotic – If you need to give pity – then give it to the victims.”
The concerned passerby’s call was answered by Scott, as the onlooker told him: “This baby is standing out here in the freezing cold with a sign,” according to court records obtained by WTHR.
The Logansport cop then allegedly admitted to having handed out the punishment, responding: “Yup, she comes out here every 30 minutes, and she goes back inside every 10 minutes to warm back up.”
While the pair were speaking, an “older man” reportedly walked up and questioned why the child’s father was forcing her to stand outside with the shocking and humiliating sign, according to court records.
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The documents state that Scott allegedly replied: “Well sir, aside from me cruelly beating her physically, I’ve not done any other punishment that has worked for her.
“She’s threatened to kill my family, she wants to embarrass us, she wants to urinate on herself and destroy things in the house. I have a [Department of Child Services] caseworker involved, she’s been in therapy for three years, she also has the wrap-around program at school.”
Scott also claimed that his daughter had been taken to hospital on two occasions for reasons not disclosed in the court records, but was “kicked out”, claiming he’d threatened not to pick her up but relented after staff warned him that “they would call DCS on me for abandonment.”
The chilling exchange was caught on bodycam footage, which was handed over to the DCS, which uncovered that it was allegedly not the first time Scott had made his daughter hold up humiliating signs in public as punishment.
Scott’s wife allegedly told investigators that their daughter had been made to hold up the sign as punishment for “pouting” when her parents forbade her from wearing lipgloss.
Kylie Scott. Credit: Cass County Jail
She had previously allegedly been made to carry a sign to Walmart that read: “I lie to hurt other people.”
Heartbreakingly, the little girl was also allegedly made to carry a sign to school that read: “I pee on everything and cover it up like a cat.”
According to the Scotts, the six-year-old allegedly suffers from behavioral issues and several diagnoses that require medication, which an investigator said in their report that they disclosed in an attempt to defend their actions.
Following the incident on January 19, Scott was put on leave from his job “within hours”, according to the police.
He was officially put on leave without pay on March 12 after a hearing with the Logansport Board of Public Works.
Featured image credit: Cass County Jail
