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MILWAUKEE, July 24 (UPI) -- A lawyer for a Milwaukee woman convicted of locking her son in his room with a bucket for a toilet during football games suggested a poetic punishment.
Melanie Hardrath and Scott Scherer were found guilty of repeatedly locking Hardrath's young son in his room with nothing but a bucket for his natural needs while they watched Green Bay Packers games at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday.
"What do you do?" Hardrath's defense attorney, Richard Johnson, asked Judge Jeffrey Wagner. "Maybe this coming football season, lock them in a room with a bucket and make them watch (Chicago) Bears games."
Instead, the couple faces several months in jail for the offense.
Investigators found the two could easily have afforded a babysitter. Their home was stocked with nearly $1 million worth of Packers memorabilia.
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