Florida AG seeks death penalty for couple who allegedly held 4 children in ‘rolling prison’ for nearly 7 years

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says his office will seek the death penalty for the two adults who allegedly confined four children to the cab of a tractor-trailer, some for more than six years, and sexually abused them.

Keisha Monique Epps, 51, and Tamra Marshon Stewart, 37, have been charged with sexual battery, molestation and neglect of two girls and two boys — two 5-year-olds, a 6-year-old and a 9-year-old, Uthmeier said.

Epps and Stewart, who has been identified as her fiancé, had been living in the cab with the children.

Epps worked as a truck driver, frequenting a route between Miami and Atlanta, according to court documents.

FLORIDA COUPLE ALLEGEDLY HELD FOUR CHILDREN IN TRACTOR-TRAILER CAB FOR NEARLY SEVEN YEARS "These children were trapped in a rolling prison and abused by the adults who were supposed to protect them," Uthmeier said.

"We will pursue with everything we have the death penalty.

We will seek executions, if you want to come in here [in Florida] and you want to physically molest, abuse, and violate our little kids." Florida law allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty for adults convicted of sexual battery against a child younger than 12.

The two girls were sexually abused by Stewart for years, Uthmeier said.

When the two boys witnessed sexual abuse and confronted Stewart, he "beat them by punching them in their heads," reports show.

The children told authorities that they had told Epps about the sexual abuse and saw her witness it.

She called one of the children "derogatory names" and continued to leave them alone with Stewart, reports show.

Stewart told investigators he had committed three sexual batteries against one of the girls, according to Uthmeier’s office.

One of the children was found to have an untreated sexually transmitted infection, Uthmeier’s office said.

But the horrors allegedly went far beyond sexual abuse.