Parents guilty of abuse in bed-cage case
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A couple accused of forcing some of their 11 adopted special-needs children to sleep in wood and wire cages were convicted of endangerment and abuse.
Sharen Gravelle and her husband, Michael, were found guilty in Norwalk of four felony counts of child endangering and seven misdemeanor counts.
Each was acquitted of 13 other charges.
The parents said they needed to keep some of the children, who ranged in age from 1 to 14, in enclosed beds rigged with alarms to protect them from their own dangerous behavior and stop them from wandering at night.
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