Overview
- Court dockets list 959 counts for Amy Billotte, 51, and 947 counts for Sarah Faber, 37, including unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, involuntary servitude, reckless endangerment and terroristic threats.
- Both defendants are being held at the Jefferson County Jail on $500,000 bail, according to court records.
- School staff alerted police on Sept. 8 after the teen appeared severely malnourished, and he was taken to UPMC Children’s Hospital where medical personnel documented signs of malnutrition and physical abuse.
- A criminal complaint describes alleged confinement with cameras and a door alarm, restricted windows, forced standing and exercise to exhaustion, and duct-taping the boy to the floor at night.
- The teen reported additional assaults and threats, including knife injuries and threats to squirt cat insulin into his eyes, and officials say he had dropped to 79 pounds before removal and has begun to regain weight.