A father accused of making his daughter live in deplorable conditions outside despite having a large home won't be going to jail.
Philipe Mathieu took a plea deal Monday that results in him serving three years probation despite originally facing 863 counts of child neglect against his 16-year-old daughter.
The girl lived outside the family's four-bedroom, two-bathroom Little Haiti home for eight years before investigators finally arrested Mathieu and his wife, Sherrine, in May.
Mathieu's attorneys argued that he was also a victim and that his wife wore the pants in the family. She forced him to live outside, too.
The girl told police she was forced to eat, sleep and bathe outside and was rarely allowed inside the house. She urinated in cups and reused plastic bags when she needed to defecate.
The girl often slept in an old car parked on the property and was given 40 cents a day to wash clothes.
Philipe, 62, told investigators that the girl and father lived outside because his wife was a clean freak and he didn't want to upset her.
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The girl is in the custody of the Department of Children and Families.
Sherrine Mathieu, 42, still faces hundreds of child neglect charges.
