article_snippet: The victim is the granddaughter of Steve Sells, 58, who, along with The victim wife, Joetta, 54, and their daughter, Crystal, 21, has been charged with neglect. '
article_snippet: Cruel': Steve and Joetta Sells were granted custody in 2009 when Steve and Joetta Sells daughter, Crystal, abandoned a 16-year-old mentally disabled girl child .
article_snippet: Records show that Steve Sells was ‘extremely hostile’ in meeting about the allegations, but agreed with his wife to co-operate, taking his granddaughter to a doctor and dietician several times.
article_snippet: Third suspect: Crystal Sells, 21, has been charged with seven counts of battery, confinement and neglect targeting her mentally-disabled 16-year-old niece living with Crystal's parents .
article_snippet: In January Crystal Sells was arrested on seven counts of battery, confinement and aiding/inducing or causing the neglect of a dependent causing serious bodily injury.
article_snippet: Investigators say Crystal Sells played a major role in the abuse targeting the girl prisoner special-needs niece.
article_snippet: The arrest came a month after Crystal Sells and Crystal Sells wife Joetta were charged with neglect.
article_snippet: According to probable cause affidavits, Crystal Sells was seen on one occasion striking the girl prisoner mentally disabled relative in the head with a plastic chair, WISH-TV reported.
article_snippet: When questioned by police, Crystal Sells Crystal Sells admitted to the abuse targeting her special-needs niece and said that even after the girl prisoner had realized that what was being done to the girl prisoner was wrong, the girl prisoner did nothing to stop it.
article_snippet: Steve Sells, the girl prisoner's legal guardian since 2009, was initially charged with 12 counts of neglect and battery.
article_snippet: Speaking to Fox 59 in January, Jannifer Sells said Jannifer Sells was shocked to discover that Jannifer Sells father allegedly had been abusing her father .