Putnam father arrested after sons forced to sleep outside

A 33-year-old Crescent City man was arrested Tuesday on a charge of cruelty to a child after his 7- and 8-year-old sons were hit and forced to sleep on porches outside their Browns Fish Camp Road home, according to the Putnam County Sheriffs Office.

Jose Dolores Rodriguez is in jail on no bail, according to the Sheriffs Office.

Deputies were called to Middleton Burney Elementary School at 10 a.m. in reference to a child-abuse complaint and found that a 7-year-old boy had come to school with a bruise on his face, the Sheriffs Office said. The boys 8-year-old brother told teachers that their father had slapped each of them three to four times in the face for arguing, then forced one to sleep on the front porch and the other on the back porch, the Sheriffs Office said. Overnight temperatures dipped into the low 50s in that area, according to forecasts.

The father was questioned by detectives, then arrested, the Sheriffs Office said.

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Putnam father arrested after sons forced to sleep outside