STEPfather forces 12-year-old stepdaughter to pick up garbage wearing a diaper because she got an F

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By RACHEL QUIGLEY and DAILY MAIL REPORTER, PUBLISHED: 16:25 EST, 29 October 2012 |

A stepfather accused of forcing his 12-year-old stepdaughter to run outside in a diaper with her head shaven as punishment for a bad grade has pleaded guilty. 34-year-old Darnell Alan Landrum on Monday answered to the charge of gross misdemeanor aiding and abetting malicious punishment. He also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic assault case from 2010 for repeatedly hitting the girl in the legs with a belt. Landrum is facing up to two months in jail over the abuse.

It comes one week after the girl's 38-year-old mother, Ann Broten, pleaded guilty to gross misdemeanor malicious punishment of a child over the same incident. She could be jailed for up to a year. The couple were arrested after Broten shaved her daughter's head and forced her to pick up garbage from the street while wearing nothing but a diaper and a tank top.

She said it was punishment for bringing home an 'F' on her report card. Fridley police were called to the home they shared by concerned neighbors in May of this year. She told officers it was her third time on 'diaper duty', the Star Tribune reported. When they arrived they found a crowd of about 50 people watching the young girl, who was hysterical and begging to be allowed back into the house.

Officers were told the 12-year-old was outside for around half an hour before they were called. They arrested the couple on suspicion of gross-misdemeanor malicious punishment of a child. According to the Pioneer Press, they told police they were punishing the girl for not bringing home good grades from school and for failing to do her homework.

Fridley Police Lt Mike Monsrud said: 'They told her if she didn't, they would shave her head and put her on "diaper duty", which I guess meant running up and down the street and cleaning up trash as a form of public humiliation. 'Through the whole contact, and even on the way to jail, both were laughing and thinking it was ridiculous police would get involved in what they said was their parental decision.'

The 12-year-old and the woman's three other children were placed in foster care. Child Protection Services have been called to the home before after reports of 'physical abuse'. None of the children had any signs of physical abuse on this occasion. Witness June Campbell told the Star Tribune she saw the girl standing at her backdoor crying, saying, 'Can I come in? Can I come in' but the mother just looked at the girl.

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