Couple seek release — and $540M

In June 2014, Therian and Recardo Wimbush turned themselves in at the Gwinnett County jail to face allegations that they locked their oldest child in a basement bedroom for months at a time.

Now the Wimbushes have delivered an unusual, handwritten “plea offer” to the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office. It asks for their charges to be dropped — and for the county to give them what amounts to more than half a billion dollars in “restitutionary redress.”

Therian and Recardo Wimbush, the latter an ex-Georgia Tech football standout, have remained in jail since their arrest. Authorities believe the couple punished the oldest of their 10 children by imprisoning him in a basement bedroom for as long as two years.

The room had only a mattress and a makeshift toilet, police have said, and the lone window was painted over.

The Wimbushes, who are serving as their own attorneys, are scheduled to have an arraignment hearing Friday morning, in which they’ll be formally charged with a new indictment filed last month.

Asked Wednesday for comment on the latest filing, prosecutor Dan Mayfield said: “I look forward to a jury trial very soon.”

The filing calls that indictment — which includes seven counts apiece of child cruelty — “false, fictitious and fraudulent.”

It asks for all charges to be dismissed and for the couple to be “IMMEDIATELY” released from jail.

It also demands “$600,000 per day for each day that they have spent falsely imprisoned in the Gwinnett County Jail.” As of Friday that would add up to more than $540 million.