Sentenced: Couple Abused, Used Stun Gun On Malnourished 14YO Special Needs Son They Adopted As An Infant

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Stacey Lynn Myers was sentenced to 11.5 months to 23 months behind bars and Todd Myers to five months to 23 months for abusing their special needs adopted son.

After their jail time, both will be required to serve 5 years of probation.

The couple got custody of the boy through the foster system when he was six months old. They adopted him three years later, shortly after he was diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder and pervasive development disorder.

Because of his special needs, the couple received a $40-per-day subsidy for the child, which they tried to challenge in court in 2016. The couple wanted $70 per day, even though they made $45,000 each year along with the non-taxable $14,400 subsidy and the child was on Medicaid. The request was denied.

In March 2021, Children and Youth Services (CYS) called state police to help investigate the child’s conditions after Stacey Myers denied CYS entry into the home.

They found the couple kept the 14-yar-old teen in the basement, in what police called “a storage room with a bed in it.” The room had a surveillance camera and no heat or air conditioning. The teen was locked there for hours.

The boy weighed 77 pounds and appeared so underweight that police called an ambulance to take him to a hospital. Doctors said he was seriously malnourished, which was a sign of severe neglect.

The teen said he wasn’t given food because “the other kids needed it more.” He also said he stopped drinking Pedialyte because insurance would no longer cover it.

Stacey and Todd Myers would hit the teen with a board, sometimes with nails in it, and Stacey would grab him by the neck and throw him down the steps to the basement, the boy said. She also tasered him on various parts of his body, the police report said. Police confiscated a Taser from the Myers’ kitchen.

The teen wore adult diapers 24/7, did not have access to a bathroom and had a broken finger but did not know how it happened, police said.

The boy developed PTSD from the trauma he experienced at the Myers’ hands, the police report said.

This statement is bullshit - they got a slap on the wrist.

“This jury verdict holds these two defendants responsible for the reprehensible way in which they abused their child,“ Adams County District Attorney Brian Sinnett said after the convictions.

Couple who abused, used stun gun on 14-year-old malnourished son sentenced to jail

Stacey and Todd Myers adopted the boy as a toddler. He now has PTSD, police said.

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