‘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.’
Those are the shocking words scrawled in blue ink across a handmade cardboard sign a six-year-old girl was forced to stand holding for hours in the snow.
Her parents Cody Allen Scott, 33, and Kylie Jo Scott, 34, were arrested after horrified passersby in Logansport, Indiana, called 911 on January 19.
Cody, a Logansport Police officer, brazenly confessed the crime when he responded to the report himself, claiming it was the only punishment that worked on her.
The girl was earlier forced to take another sign to school reading ‘I pee on everything and cover it up like a cat’, a Howard County DCS caseworker told police.
Another time she had to walk around Walmart carrying one that read, ‘I lie to hurt other people’, according to her school.
Cody confronted the 911 caller near where his daughter was standing in 18F weather, who told him ‘this baby is standing out here in the freezing cold with a sign’.
‘Yup, she comes out here every 30 minutes, and she goes back inside every 10 minutes to warm back up,’ he replied, all caught on his own bodycam.
A six-year-old girl was forced to stand holding this sign for hours in the snow in 18F weather
Her father Cody Scott, a Logansport Police officer, brazenly confessed the crime when he responded to the report himself, claiming it was the only punishment that worked on her
Cody Allen Scott, 33, and Kylie Jo Scott, 34, were arrested after horrified passersby in Logansport, Indiana, called 911
Then another passerby, an older man, arrived and asked, ‘I just wanted to know why she had to stand out here like this?’
‘Do you want the short version or the long version?’ Scott told him.
‘Probably the short version is probably best,’ the man replied.
‘Well sir, aside from me cruelly beating her physically, I’ve not done any other punishment that has worked for her,’ Scott explained.
‘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 DCS caseworker involved, she’s been in therapy for three years, she also has the wrap around program at school.
Both parents were charged with two counts of neglect of a dependent, a level six felony, and pleaded not guilty
‘She goes in every 30 minutes to warm back up, she’s bundled up very warm and then she’ll come back out.’
Both parents were charged with two counts of neglect of a dependent, a level six felony, and pleaded not guilty.
They face court again on May 8 ahead of a trial on September 22.
Cody was put on paid administrative leave since his arrest, and Logansport Board of Public Works and Safety Committee later unanimously voted to stop paying him.