Three Missouri Suspects Arrested in Connection with Claims Young Sisters Held in Dog Cages, Victims of Abuse: Police

Three people in Missouri have been arrested after they allegedly subjected as many as seven children to sexual and physical abuse and neglect, according to authorities.

On July 18, an officer from the Seneca Police Department interviewed one of the alleged female victims, who reportedly is related to 42-year-old Billy Bresee, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by KSN.

The girl told police she and her sisters were “subjected to sexual acts” by 25-year-old Codie Lee Wilder, who was staying in the home with the girls, according to the affidavit.

She told investigators she told Bresee about the alleged sexual abuse, but he responded that she should go live with a relative and “didn’t do anything about” it, police claimed in the report.

According to the affidavit, Bresee previously told the girls that “they were lying and didn’t know what they were talking about.”

The alleged victims also claimed to police that 49-year-old Holly Brewer forced two of the youngest victims to stay in dog kennels as punishment, officials said.

Brewer was additionally accused of slapping the girls' faces and beating them with a wooden spoon so hard that one broke, police said.

Authorities said the alleged victims were between 12 and 14 years old.

On Aug. 1, Brewer and Bresee were arrested in connection with the allegations. Bresee faces one count of abuse or neglect of a child and Brewer faces three counts of the same charge.

Both were booked into the Newton County jail and have each since posted $5,000 bonds.

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On Aug. 3, Wilder was arrested and charges with child molestation, sodomy, and statutory rape, officials said. He was booked into the Newton County jail, where he was being held without bond.

All three suspects are barred from contact with the alleged victims.