A Missouri woman has been arrested after allegedly trading her foster child for an exotic monkey. Brenda Ruth Deutsch, 70, of Lincoln County, was taken into custody this week following an initial ...

A woman has reportedly swapped her adopted daughter for a monkey to boost her exotic animal collection. Brenda Deutsch, aged 70, has been charged with child abuse and endangerment in relation to ...

Investigators are now looking into "a decade’s worth of allegations of abuse" against a Missouri foster mom Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019.

A Lincoln County woman is facing multiple charges after police ... allegations that she traded the girl in exchange for a monkey. "A witness who had come forward with some information regarding ...

A longtime foster mother has been arrested in Missouri on child abuse allegations, and authorities reportedly say they're looking into claims that she may have traded her foster daughter for a monkey.

The woman told a detective she was friends with the girl's adoptive mother and took her in to give the pair a break from each other. The girl stayed there for over a month, Wood said.