WARREN, Ohio -  A Warren man has been sentenced to eighteen years in prison after police found an emaciated five-year-old boy being kept in a basement and bruised from head to toe.

James Jethroe, 34, appeared in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on Friday, where he pleaded guilty to eight counts of child endangering.

Judge Wyatt McKay immediately sentenced Jethroe.

Canchata Allgood,31, is already serving an 18-year prison term after pleading guilty last year to eight counts of child endangering and was immediately sentenced by Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Ronald Rice.

Allgood and Jethroe were charged in 2020 after police investigated reports of a child being kept in the basement and rarely fed at their shared Austin Avenue home.

Police removed five children from the home after finding the 5-year-old boy in the basement with cameras installed to send alerts if the child tried to come upstairs.

Officials described the 5-year-old as just skin and bones, with bruising and injuries all over his body.

At the time of the arrests, a relative told 21 News he was unable to recognize the boy because of his condition.