Deputies: Oregon couple accused of chaining up child inside their home

A Washington County couple faces felony mistreatment expenses following reviews {that a} youngster had been held captive in chains of their house, sheriff’s officers mentioned Thursday.

The kid was chained to an object for greater than 12 hours a day, apparently as a punishment for taking meals and drinks from the house’s kitchen, sheriff’s officers mentioned in an announcement. They declined to launch the age or gender of the kid.

The abuse included being hit, kicked, strangled and referred to as slurs and lasted for almost a 12 months, authorities allege in an announcement.

Ana M. Miranda, 67, and Charles “Randy” Ward, 74, have been arrested April 27, reserving data present, after a raid of their house in unincorporated Tigard, the place the husband and spouse have been dwelling with 9 kids and two younger adults, in response to the sheriff’s workplace.

Miranda is suspected of abusing different kids through the years, the sheriff’s assertion mentioned, whereas the indictment expenses her with mistreatment way back to July 2019.

Washington County sheriff’s Sgt. Danny DiPietro mentioned not one of the kids within the house have been positioned there by the foster care system however declined to launch additional particulars, citing privateness issues.

“Everybody inside that house, particularly the children, are (now) in a protected place with accountable adults,” DiPietro mentioned. “We’re working with the kids and adults in that house, speaking to them, to find out if there have been every other crimes through the years.”

Miranda is charged with eight counts of first-degree felony mistreatment, plus one rely of strangulation in opposition to a baby, in response to the indictment.

She can be charged with second-degree assault with a pair of metallic pliers and illegal use of a weapon involving a second one who was a baby on the time of the allegations, in response to DiPietro.

Miranda stays in custody and should submit 10% of her bail, $2,500, to be launched, data present.

Ward is charged with 4 counts of first-degree felony mistreatment and should additionally submit 10% of his bail, $1,500, to be launched from the county jail.

DiPietro mentioned detectives are nonetheless investigating doable earlier situations of mistreatment and requested anybody with info to contact authorities.

— Zane Sparling; zsparling@oregonian.com; 503-319-7083; @pdxzane

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