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Couple Used 'Ratchet Strap' to Lock Woman's Son in Bathroom Without Food

A couple in Arkansas will spend two decades in prison after they admitted to using a “ratchet strap” to lock the woman’s 15-year-old son up in a dark bathroom, leaving him there for days at a time without food or clothes. Baxter County Circuit Judge Andrew Bailey sentenced Jaclyn Machelle Barnett and Daniel Alan Wright to each serve 20 years in a state correctional facility after they pleaded guilty to multiple felonies on Monday, May 18. Additionally, the judge tacked on a seven-year suspended sentence and noted that the couple had already served 194 days at the time of their sentencing. Barn...