Warrants: 'Emaciated' boys abused by adoptive parents, tied up in room for hours

Two people are behind bars in connection to an abandoned children case in the Socastee area.

Police arrested Davon Moore and Aleesha Washington on May 22 and charged them with two counts of kidnapping, three counts of unlawful conduct toward a child and two counts of abuse inflicting great bodily injury upon a child.

Arrest warrants show that around 1 a.m. on May 7, the two boys ran away from a home in the 6000 block of Spice Bush Crescent and went to a local business for help.

The two boys were taken into protective custody. Warrants state that while at the hospital it was discovered the boys had multiple fractures throughout their body, along with bruising, scarring and cuts.

According to the arrest warrants, Moore and Washington would lock them in a room all day, withhold food, clothing and bathroom privileges and would “excessively physically punish” them.

The warrants state the abuse was so bad it resulted in permanent disfigurement and that the boys could have died if they had not been treated.

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