Overview

• Parents Brian and Jill Griffeth and their adult children Dallin and Liberty were arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse for alleged mistreatment of nine minors in Fort White.
• Authorities say the children — ages 7 to 16 — were locked in plywood cages beneath bunk beds and subjected to beatings, vinegar sprays and nonprescribed medications as forms of punishment.
• Four privately adopted children were forced into chores and kept ignorant of their own names or birthdays while their biological siblings were allowed leisure time.
• The case was triggered by a mandatory reporter’s concerns at a local Latter-day Saints church and the discovery of a working stun gun at a church camp.
• Investigators from the Department of Children and Families have interviewed the children and are reviewing out-of-state adoption records as the inquiry continues.