Published: 11:23 EDT, 13 July 2012 | Updated: 20:31 EDT, 13 July 2012

The parents of a four-year-old girl who authorities say was confined at night in a bed wrapped with steel mesh fencing have been charged with kidnapping and child endangerment.

Fairfield County deputies found the cage-like contraption when they were responding to a domestic violence call from the family's home in central Ohio, county Sheriff Dave Phalen said on Thursday.

He said the girl was not in the bed at the time, but that when deputies questioned the parents about the fencing, they told them they confined the girl in her bed at night to keep her from getting up.

Parents: Russell Terry, 34, and Jamie Curnell, 32, of Pleasantville, Ohio, were arrested and charged with kidnapping and child endangerment

Filthy: Fairfield County deputies found this cage-like contraption when they were responding to a domestic violence call from the family's home in central Ohio

Admission: When deputies questioned the parents about the fencing, they told them they confined the girl in her bed at night to keep her from getting up

A county Municipal Court judge on Thursday set bond at $500,000 each for Russell Terry, 34, and Jamie Curnell, 32, of Pleasantville.

They remain in the county jail.

Court officials said there were no attorneys listed yet for Terry or Curnell, who were each charged with single counts of kidnapping and child endangerment.

The sheriff said the kidnapping charge involved 'unlawful restraint' of the child.

Phalen said the girl and an eight-month-old sibling were removed from the home and were in the custody of the county's child protective services.

The steel wire surrounded the lower bunk bed where the girl slept, and a door had been fashioned into the steel fence, the sheriff said.

Locked in: The sheriff said the kidnapping charge involved 'unlawful restraint' of the child. The couple are being held on $500,000 bond

It had a screen-door hook and a sliding dead bolt on the outside.

'Aside from the concern about psychological damage from the child being kept in a cage-type setting, there is also the concern that in a fire or another emergency the child couldn't get out,' Phalen said.

He described the home as 'filthy, without even a sheet on the girl's bed'.

County Prosecutor Gregg Marx said his office is considering additional charges and expects to present the case to a grand jury this month.

Pleasantville is about 40 miles southeast of Columbus.

A neighbor told 10TV.com that the couple fought all the time.

'There has been yelling before, so we really didn’t think much of it coming from that house,'  said Cassie Kilbarger. 'To know that they were doing that is just awful.'

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