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"Police said two people face charges after they forced hot sauce and vinegar into the mouth of a 4-year-old girl as punishment.Mobile videoThe child's mother, 23-year-old Brittany Herbst, and her boyfriend, 29-year-old James Ford, are accused of feeding the child the spicy sauce and vinegar multiple times for nearly a year.A Mount Washington police officer said between June 2013 and May 2014, Ford \"physically forced the hot sauce and vinegar into the child's mouth as discipline.\"According to the warrants for their arrest, Herbst helped to force-feed her 4-year-old the spicy combination.\"I think most of what was going on was started by the boyfriend, but she kind of went along with it, I guess,\" said one of Herbst's Mt. Washington neighbors, Bettina Priddy.\"I'm really horrified because a child can never do anything that bad to have you do something to them like that,\" said neighbor Helen Daniels.Daniels said she occasionally saw Ford visiting the home in Louisville that is listed on Ford's arrest slip. She doesn't agree with the disciplinary technique he is accused of using.\"I've got a 7-month-old grandbaby, but the thing is when you get upset with a child, you're supposed to walk away,\" Daniels said.Priddy said she sometimes heard screams coming from two young girls living in the apartment.\"They would lay in there screaming, crying, she would come outside and she's like, 'I'm not picking them up. They need to learn now,'\" Priddy said.Herbst is also accused of punishing her child by putting soap her mouth when \"she said a bad word.\"Priddy said the little girls living with Herbst were well-behaved.\"Every time we've ever seen them, they were never doing anything. They were always very good,\" Priddy said. \"I'm hoping that this is going to keep the girls safe.\"The girl was treated for a head abrasion at Kosair Children's Hospital around May 1.Ford and Herbst are both charged with first-degree criminal abuse of a child under 12.Herbst's bond was set at $25,000, and Ford's bond was set at $50,000.According to Metro Corrections and Bullitt County Detention Center, they both posted bond and they have been released.Ford is due back in court next week. Herbst is due back in court in August. Both will appear in a Bullitt County courtroom.According to Herbst\u2019s neighbor the children are now staying with relatives."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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