> one of the children "described an existence in which she did not see or talk to anyone other than her parents including her siblings and spent virtually all of her time locked alone in her bedroom," according to a search warrant written by seminole county sheriff's deputy sean r. platter. two of the children also said they were often sent to bed, punished with a bottle of cold water poured over them, and left in that condition overnight. > the children were forced to write sentences as part of their punishments, they told investigators. a search of the house turned up over 1,100 paragraphs repeating: "my body stays flat on the bed at all times. i was never given permission to move or say anything. now i get to write about this along with everything else. i'm a fool." > the parents were arrested in 2021 after the 8-year-old was hospitalized. in addition to multiple organ failure, she had sepsis, a staph infection, black eyes, open wounds and scabs, pneumonia and malnutrition, records show.
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