Children held in semi truck cab, abused for 7 years: ‘Rolling prison’

A trucker and her partner have been arrested and accused of confining four children to the cab of a semi truck for nearly seven years, neglecting and sexually battering them, authorities in Florida said.

Keisha (Keysha) Monique Epps, 51, and her fiancé, Tamra Marshon Stewart, 37, were arrested Aug. 7 in Jacksonville. The pair told authorities they have been living in the truck’s cab while Epps worked as a truck driver, with routes between Florida and Georgia.

An arrest report obtained by the USA TODAY Network in Florida said the children lived in the cab since December 2019, all sleeping in a top bunk so cramped they had to lie “side by side and curled up because they could not fit.” The report said they were “rarely allowed out of the cab of the truck, even if they needed to use the restroom.”

The children did not attend school, were fed poorly and did not receive medical attention even if injured or sick, according to the report. Detectives noticed the children "walking with an unnatural gait from being confined to the cab,” which they were kept in the majority of the day.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's office said two…

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