Please explain, the story is not clear. It’s just that the girl was locked in under the staircase and in this “day and age” that is not good. I apoligize for jumping to conclusions but I still DO NOT understand. I do still want three acres and razor wire.
Precisely.
Unlawful restraint sounds to minor a charge to indicate any real evil intent. It sounds as though a non-custodial parent restrained the girl from going where she wanted to go, but maybe not with the intent of harming her. It doesn’t indicate that she has been kept in that space under the stairs for any length of time. It doesn’t say unlawful imprisonment or any other kind of abuse. It could be that they hid her there only when they thought that someone was coming to look for her. Maybe she had run away and was living on the streets. Maybe she was doing drugs and was being restrained in order to keep her off the drugs. There just isn’t enough information, and the charges don’t sound like the police have much to charge the people with.
It’s possible that she was already a ward of the state and in a situation that the parent thought was worse than the home that she was removed from. I’ve seen that happen, a thirteen year old girl sent to a foster home with a fourteen year old foster boy, with whom she immediately began a sexual relationship.