A Louisa couple, Ronald Jewell, 48, and his wife, Laura Jewell, 49, has been charged with torturing their 8-year-old granddaughter.
According to Culpeper’s Star Exponent, a neighbor called 911 to report the alleged abuse. Louisa sheriff’s Maj. Donald Lowe says that the girl had bruises all over her body. One of her feet was broken and some of her hair had been pulled out. “Her ear had been partially torn. She had blood on her,” he said.
The young girl lived with her grandparents with one sister and two brothers, but they did not seem to have been hurt, said Lowe.