Prosecutors say Shane and Crystal Robertson regularly hit and whipped their children, and, in one instance, attempted to smother one of their daughters with a blanket.
The West Rockhill Township couple who police say kept their seven children in deplorable conditions inside their mobile home have been charged with assault after the children told investigators their parents regularly beat and whipped them.
The abuse included being punched and slapped by their parents, and being whipped with their father’s belt and electrical cords, the affidavit said. The daughter Robertson allegedly tried to smother told police her father told her to kill herself on two occasions, once handing her a kitchen knife and ordering her to stab herself in the bathroom. Once, as Robertson was beating one of his daughters, she was able to break free and run out of their home, the affidavit said.
Inside the Robertsons’ home on Roseann Lane, investigators were shocked to discover the conditions the family was living in. Feces from multiple animals — including the family’s prized iguana, which had its own TikTok account maintained by the couple — was strewn throughout, as was garbage. The trailer was deteriorating, police said, and Crystal Robertson told officers she had fallen through its rotted floor months earlier.
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