Trap Montanna, a rapper from Las Vegas, was arrested after police saved six children from his home, where two of them were locked in cages. The artist, whose real name is Travis Doss, was arrested on 40 charges, including several counts of child abuse, on June 11. Amanda Stamper, his wife, was also picked up and charged with seven counts of child abuse.
8 News Now says that the rapper’s wife called the police last month and said that he had threatened to kill her. The police then saved the children. Stamper made the call from a convenience store where she was hiding from her husband. She told police “there were children locked in a dog kennel” and said Doss was “violent toward all the children” and beat them with “belts, extension cords, skillets, his hands and feet,” according to documents obtained by HotNewHipHop. She also said that “all the children are covered with marks from their neck down.”
The New York Post got a copy of an arrest request that said when police went to the apartment near Flamingo Road and Valley View Boulevard, they found six children ages 2 to 11 alone with two dogs. Two of the bigger boys were found locked in a dog cage. They were 9 and 11 years old. Doss is said to have told Stamper that he thought one of the caged kids was already dead because he “kicked him in the head too hard.” Police say Stamper told them that she thought the child “looked dead for the last five days.” The 11-year-old boy in the cage told police that he had not eaten in days and had to share what little food he had with his brothers. This was shown on video of the police entering the house.
An officer told a grand jury, “He kept saying that he was always hungry, and that’s why he stole, and then he said it’s food that’s in the trash can so how is that even stealing? And he kept saying that he needed big food because he was a big boy now and that he would have to share like one large fry from McDonald’s with like all six kids, his six siblings, I mean, and just that he was never really fed and that’s why he stole.”
Doss told police that he knew he beat the child pretty hard, but he “had no choice.” He said that Stamper never hit the kids in front of him. Stamper’s public defender told the court in June that Stamper knew about the abuse, but “if she had done anything, she would have been subjected to serious, serious abuse.”
Doss was charged with 40 things, some of which were child abuse. Stamper, meanwhile, is being charged with seven counts of child abuse. In June, Judge Andrew Wong set Doss’ bail at $250,000. After he was charged, however, his bail was raised to $500,000. Both he and Stamper have said that they are not guilty.