PHOENIX — A federal trial is set to begin Wednesday for an Indiana man accused of forcing his grandsons to hike for miles in the Grand Canyon without food or water in brutal August heat.
Christopher Alan Carlson, of Indianapolis, pleaded not guilty to six counts of child abuse.His grandsons, who were 12, 9 and 8 years old at the time, told investigators that Carlson hit, pushed, choked, and squeezed them, and forced their fingers down their throats to make them vomit during trips into the Grand Canyon.
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