Adnan, 30, was keeping an eye on the children, who were living at the motel with their mother, while she was at work in Blue Hill, according to court documents.
The youngest child, who is 6, alleges that in August, Adnan tied her hands behind her back, her feet to each other, covered her mouth with duct tape and then hung her upside down in the motel office, according to court documents. Adnan also is accused of spanking the girl’s 10-year-old brother with “a stick with a nail in it” and of assaulting her 11-year-old sister.
The 6-year-old girl told police that Adnan “put her inside a ‘stinky fridge’ and wouldn’t let her out,” Bucksport police Detective Sgt. David Winchester wrote in an affidavit. “She said that he was tipping the refrigerator back and forth while she was inside.”
Police and officials with Maine Department of Health and Human Services interviewed the children after receiving a complaint. The youngest girl had bruising on her face, neck, wrists, legs and buttocks, Winchester said.
“I observed bruising all over these parts of her body,” he wrote in the affidavit. “Her buttocks were completely black and blue from being struck.”
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