Parents allegedly kept children locked up for days on end
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Left to right: Steven Griffin and Anissa Griffin (Cobb County Sheriff’s Office).

A Georgia teacher and his wife were taken into custody last month for allegedly confining their children in their bedrooms for prolonged periods and “occasionally” withholding food from them, according to the police in Peach State.

Steven Griffin, age 53, and Anissa Griffin, age 53, are each charged with one count of eavesdropping–surveillance and four counts of child cruelty in the second degree, which are both felony offenses, as per arrest documents filed in Cobb County Magistrate Court.

The husband previously worked as an English teacher at North Cobb High School but resigned in the aftermath of his arrest on April 30.

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Authorities claim the pair “consistently monitored” the activities inside the bedrooms of their four teenage children for a period covering at least 17 months, from January 2024 through the end of April this year, based on warrant information obtained by the Marietta Daily Journal and the Atlanta-based Fox affiliate WAGA.

The couple’s 18-year-old daughter said she was locked inside her room “for a month or two” and had to request permission to leave — even to use the bathroom, according to the charging documents. The 18-year-old, as well as her 14-year-old and 15-year-old siblings, allegedly said the cameras in their bedrooms made them feel uncomfortable, particularly when they were changing clothes.

Another child allegedly said he was forced to live in the unfinished basement of the family’s house on Owens Landing Trail in Kennesaw — a medium-sized suburb of Atlanta located in the far northwestern reaches of the broader metro area. The boy said the basement lacked heat and air conditioning.

The boy also said he had to request permission to use the bathroom, and was sometimes denied such permission to the point of physical pain, according to the warrants. This child allegedly told investigators his parents confined him for up to five days at a time, and sometimes denied him food.

The Griffins are alleged to have kept track of their children — and to have enforced discipline — by way of alarms on each bedroom door that alerted when they were opened, authorities claim.

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