Overview

• Brian and Jill Griffeth along with their adult children Dallin and Liberty face aggravated child abuse charges and are each held on $500,000 bond
• Authorities secured a court order to remove all five biological and four adopted children—ages 7 to 16—from the Fort White home
• Investigators documented punishment methods that included plywood cages under bunk beds, vinegar sprayed in the face, beatings with a cane and forced medication
• Department of Children and Families found adopted children subjected to chores and denied schooling while biological siblings were allowed leisure activities
• The probe began after a mandatory reporter’s tip from a local church and a stun gun incident involving one of the children at a church camp