Toddler 'Cantu' - 3 yo - Marietta GA

3-Year-Old Nailed Inside Bedroom

The Marietta mother and her boyfriend are in jail on charges of cruelty to the boy.



A Marietta woman and her boyfriend were arrested last week and accused of nailing a 3-year-old inside a bedroom.
Cindy Marie Cantu, 24, and Kyle Erwin Skinner, 23, were being held in the Cobb County jail Sunday. Her bond is set at $15,000; his is $25,000.

Cobb County police had to kick down the locked, nailed bedroom door
Monday at Cantu's home in the 900 block of Millwood Drive and found the
3-year-old boy wearing a soiled diaper and suffering from a severe rash
while being cut off from food amid filthy conditions, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The home is off Austell Road south of the Windy Hill-Macland Road Connector.

Cantu was arrested that night at WellStar Kennestone Hospital
and charged with felony cruelty to children through negligence and two
misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor,
according to Cobb County Sheriff’s Office booking records.

Skinner was arrested at his home in Woodstock on Tuesday morning, the
booking records say. In addition to being charged with one felony and
two misdemeanor counts of cruelty to children and two misdemeanor counts
of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, he faces charges of
battery and assault on an unborn.

He is accused of pushing and hitting Cantu, who is pregnant, resulting in her trip to Kennestone Hospital, the AJC said.

It is the second case in less than a week in which a mother who lives
south of Marietta was arrested and charged with locking up her children.

Yolanda Mendez, 35, was arrested Nov. 18 and accused of locking up her four children, ages 16, 13, 9 and 3, for three days while she used meth.
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