They also were "severely malnourished," weighing 50 and 60 pounds when they and their 15-year-old sister were removed from the family's home on Feb. Prosecutors and law enforcement have said an 11-year-old boy and his 11-year-old sister suffered brutal, religiously fueled beatings with a cane and a board. On Wednesday, Harvey County District Judge Joe Dickinson released the arrest affidavit, which details the claims against the couple.Īttorneys for the Nachtigals, who had opposed releasing the document, either declined to comment or failed to return messages left on Thursday by The Associated Press. He was fired soon after charges were filed. Until the couple's arrest in February, James Nachtigal was CEO of Kansas Christian Home, an elderly care facility in Newton. James Nachtigal and his wife, Paige Nachtigal, both of North Newton, each are charged with a dozen felony counts accusing them of child abuse, aggravated battery and child torture. Two of three children adopted from an area of Peru where a Kansas couple worked as missionaries were routinely beaten with a wooden spoon and suffered broken bones at the hands of their adoptive parents, investigators said in a court document released this week.
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They are free on bond and are scheduled to appear back in court on Aug. The Nachtigals were each charged with 12 counts of child abuse, aggravated battery and child torture. He told the teacher that he was forced to scrub the garage floor with his head. The couple was arrested in February.Īccording to the document, a teacher reported the abuse to the Department for Children and families after one of the children came to school with scars on his forehead and in to his hairline. James worked in Newton as the CEO of Kansas Christian Home, a care facility for the aging. The adoptive parents, Paige and James Nachtigal, did missionary work there. In the affidavit, investigators tell of beatings, starving and other abuses to two of three children who had been adopted from Peru.
An arrest affidavit has been released by Harvey County District Judge Joe Dickinson detailing abuses of two children by their adopted parents in north Newton.
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