Brown County Circuit Court Judge Kendall Kelley fully admitted that raising a child is difficult and challenging. But when Kelly Johnston punched her teenage daughter in the face and head before handcuffing her to a bed for stealing from her marijuana stash, the 36-year-old Green Bay woman sank to a new level of cruelty.
"You have treated your child worse than most people treat a disobedient dog," Kelley said. "Worse yet would be a mother who would do this to hide her own criminal activity."
Johnston was arrested in March 2005 after her then 15-year-old daughter called police and said she had been beaten and chained to a bed for 17 hours without food or water. Prosecutors charged Johnston with child abuse, false imprisonment and marijuana possession, but later dropped the child abuse charge as part of a plea bargain.
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