Overview

• Publicly released footage by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office shows Perez placing a dog leash around his 6-year-old stepson’s neck and forcing him to carry a backpack filled with rocks.
• Prosecutors say the boy suffered swollen eyes, scratches across his body and a rash on his neck after two days of alleged torture in May.
• Perez pleaded not guilty and was released on house arrest on June 10 with orders to stay at least 500 feet away from his stepson and the child’s mother.
• Since his arrest, the state attorney’s office has received new complaints of past abuse from Perez’s 14-year-old daughter and other potential victims.
• Perez’s defense maintains the boy’s mother authorized his discipline and highlights his diagnosed PTSD and service-related traumatic brain injury.