A 2-year-old missing Oklahoma girl allegedly suffered a nightmare of abuse at the hands of her parents, who shot her with a BB gun, beat her with a paddle that had “The Last Resort” written on it and finally sold her to a meth dealer, according to local reports.
Ashley Ceejay Rowland, 39, and her boyfriend Joshua Denton, 40, were arrested on Aug. 5 in connection to the abuse against their poor tot London Kerr, who was last seen in the arms of the mother’s methamphetamine dealer in 2022, according to The Oklahoman.
Rowland confessed to police that she gave the poor child to a man identified as “Carlos” in exchange for drugs, the report stated. That man claimed that he was going to travel to Mexico with the child.
Before abandoning London, Rowland and Denton exacted cruel and vicious physical punishment on the toddler.
Teenage children of Rowland said she and her boyfriend would shoot the baby with BB guns, strike her with a wooden paddle, and lock her in a closet, the report stated, citing a criminal affidavit.
While searching the couple’s house, police discovered a wooden paddle with the phrase “The Last Resort” written on it, the report stated.
Denton’s two teenage daughters said their dad force fed London a hot pepper and poured hot sauce in the child’s eyes on more than one occasion, according to that affidavit.
One of the sick-o’s two teenage girls told investigators that Denton had previously sexually abused her, according to the report.
Authorities are renewing their search for London and hoping to find the child, who would be turning 6-years-old in September.
“Time is of the essence, still hoping for a positive turnout in this case, and we don’t have a lot to go off of right now, which makes it extremely difficult,” Oklahoma City police Sgt. Dillon Quirk told local KOCO-TV.
Rowland told cops that when she handed London to the meth dealer, the child had no sort of identifying paperwork, the report stated..
Officials first realized the child was missing during a failed Department of Human Services pickup order in April 2023, The Oklahoman reported.
Denton faces nine felony charges including six felony counts of child abuse, one count of forcible sodomy, and one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child.
Rowland has been charged with one count of enabling child abuse and faces previous charges of abandonment of child which were filed in Oklahoma County District Court last year.
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