Gran keeps girl in cage

A GRANDMOTHER and a man are accused of keeping her nine-year-old granddaughter padlocked inside a wire dog kennel in the basement of a house in Wisconsin.

Racine County sheriff’s deputies and social workers investigated the home near Wind Lake after a teacher made a child abuse complaint.

Gail D. Lalonde, 46, and Dale A. Deavers, 48, were each charged with causing mental harm to a child, false imprisonment, manufacturing marijuana and maintaining a drug trafficking place.