Watch: Police Rescue Children in Locked Cage: ‘Dealing with a Monster’
Six children were rescued last month from what the media have dubbed a “house of horrors,” a Las Vegas extended-stay hotel unit where some of them were found padlocked in a metal dog kennel and all appeared to have been abused.
A doctor told police one of the children, an 11-year-old boy, was near death when he was brought to the hospital, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday.
A nurse who cared for the boy was quoted in a police report as calling it “the worst case of abuse she has seen in 13 years,” according to the news outlet.
The children’s father, 31-year-old Travis Doss, and their stepmother,