Cops: Boy locked in room, door nailed shut

ATLANTA - Police accuse a Georgia couple of locking a 3-year-old boy inside a bedroom by nailing the door shut.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the boy didn't have any food and was surrounded by filth at the Cobb County home in northern Georgia.

Officers found the boy after a pregnant woman went to the hospital, saying her boyfriend had hit her.

Police arrested the woman, Cindy Marie Cantu, 24, at Wellstone Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, where she had gone for treatment of injuries allegedly inflicted by her boyfriend.

Kyle Erwin Skinner, 23, was arrested the following day.

They are charged with cruelty to children and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Skinner also faces battery and assault charges.

The Journal-Constitution reports Skinner's arrest was his third in the last month in Cobb County, according to jail records.

Cantu and Skinner were in the Cobb County jail on Friday night. It was not clear whether they had attorneys.

Cobb County sheriff's spokeswoman Nancy Bodiford didn't immediately return a telephone message.