{"id":4824,"date":"2026-05-10T23:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:38:26","slug":"locked-away-for-years-wisconsin-stepmother-pleads-no-contest-after-14-year-old-autistic-girl-found-weighing-just-35-pounds-%f0%9f%98%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/?p=4824","title":{"rendered":"Locked Away for Years\u201d: Wisconsin Stepmother Pleads No Contest After 14-Year-Old Autistic Girl Found Weighing Just 35 Pounds &#x1f628;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin stepmother Melissa Goodman, 52, entered a no-contest plea to charges including chronic neglect causing great bodily harm, emotional damage, and false imprisonment.<br \/>\nShe allegedly starved and isolated her autistic 14-year-old stepdaughter, who weighed just 35 pounds when found emaciated in August 2025, locking her in a bare room for years without food or water.<br \/>\nGoodman faces up to 46 years in prison. Sentencing is set for July 1. Her husband and other family members also face charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin stepmother Melissa Goodman, 52, entered a no-contest plea to charges including chronic neglect causing great bodily harm, emotional damage, and false imprisonment. She allegedly starved and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}