John Kinser said his neighbors, Russell D. Terry and Jamie M. Curnell, had a “normal, happy family,” even if their house wasn’t in good shape.

A few months ago, he found their 4-year-old daughter sleepwalking outside at 5 a.m. and made sure they knew she had gotten out of the house.

Now, he fears that might be the reason Terry and Curnell have been arrested.

Earlier this week, deputies arrested the couple on kidnapping and child endangering charges after they discovered the child’s bed wrapped in welded wirel mesh and equipped with a sliding latch and a screen-door latch. Terry, 34, and Curnell, 32, of Pleasantville, were arraigned Thursday on the charges, which are second- and third-degree felonies.

“I was surprised to (hear about this.) I’ve known (Terry) since kindergarten,” Kinser said. “They’ve come over to swim in my swimming pool.”

Deputies say a 4-year-old was kept locked in the bottom bed of the bunk bed because she would get up during the night. Fairfield County Sheriff Dave Phalen said the parents told deputies they had kept the child in the enclosure during the night for the past three months.

Deputies found the enclosure when they responded to a domestic violence call at 1:34 a.m. Tuesday. Deputies entered the residence along the 8000 block of Lancaster-Thornville Road and found the steel wire fencing around the bed, according to a sheriff’s report.

Phalen said the house was “filthy” and the mattress was bare. Phalen said the child was not in the bed when deputies arrived.

there are lot ways to protect the little girl from rounning round or sleepwalking,such as put her in a toddler bed and lock the door.find other ways to cure sleepwalking .anyway it is illigeal to restrict someone's liberity.also it may leave a shadow in her heart,which is bad for her future.