The Clayton County father and stepmother accused of holding a boy captive for four years are due in court Tuesday morning.
Gregory Jean, 37, and Samantha Joy Davis, 42, were arrested and charged with false imprisonment and child cruelty after the 13-year-old was found late last month hidden behind a wall in the couple’s Jonesboro-area home. The pair was denied bond at an initial court appearance.
The boy led police by cell phone texts to his mother to a tiny crawl space between the garage and attic of his father's Jonesboro home — even as his father and stepmother denied knowing the boy, according to Officer Joanne Southerland with Clayton County police. Officers found the boy in a space behind the linen closet early Nov. 30 after returning to the house for a second time to find him.
The boy went missing in 2010 shortly after visiting his father, a U.S. citizen from Haiti. The boy’s mother, who is not from the United States and is apparently unfamiliar with U.S. protocols regarding missing children, called child services about the situation instead of the police, police have said.
The boy was reunited with his mother in a tearful reunion, but remains in state custody.
Jean and Davis are scheduled to be in court at 8 a.m.
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