FRIDLEY, Minn. - A mother and her boyfriend shaved the head of her 12-year-old daughter, then forced the girl to wear a diaper and run back and forth outside their home near Minneapolis because she wasn’t doing well at school, police said.
Police arrested the 38-year-old woman and her 34-year-old boyfriend Monday night on suspicion of malicious punishment of a child, a gross misdemeanor. Lieutenant Mike Monsrud said the two adults laughed as they were hauled off in a squad car and apparently did not understand why officers had intervened.
A neighbor called police earlier that evening after a
crowd of about 50 people gathered to watch the girl, who was wearing
only the diaper and a tank top and was begging to be let back inside
their townhouse in Fridley about 7 miles north of Minneapolis.
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