A Rogers County man has pleaded guilty to child abuse and neglect after putting a shock collar on a 3 year old girl and shocking her over and over on the maximum setting.
Prosecutors did not offer any type of deal to Gustus Pennington, so he’ll be sentenced by a judge in May.
Investigators told us the girl had burns around her neck and bruises on her body after Pennington and girl’s mother, Jeannette Wilson, shocked the girl so many times in one day, the battery on the collar died.
They say Wilson told investigators Pennington beat the girl with a piece of wood and his hand because the girl wouldn’t learn her ABC’s or was “disrespectful.”
They say she told them, Pennington was the “man of the house” and she trusted his “judgment.”
They say she told deputies Pennington locked the little girl in a room and gave her only a cinder block to go to the bathroom in and slipped her little pieces of food under the door, “like in prison.”
Wilson initially said Pennington threatened her and she feared for her life and the life of her daughter, but, after gathering more evidence, deputies arrested Wilson as well.
When deputies arrested Pennington during a traffic stop, they say he was wearing a holster with a loaded revolver with extra ammunition and had a knife and had packed clothes, sleeping gear and his cat.
Wilson’s next court date is in April.
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