Photo: Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
A court hearing has been pushed back to June 24th in the so-called "Boy in the Box" case surrounding a Jupiter mother accused of locking her adopted teenage son in a box-like structure for hours at a time.
Tracy Ferriter was in court today for a plea conference and her attorneys made a counter-offer to the deal the state was offering her. Details of the offer and counter-offer are limited but it's been reported that the defense wants only probation for their client.
Her trial is scheduled for early next month.
Prosecutors say they need time to consider the counter-offer.
Tracy's husband, Tim Ferriter, was convicted of child abuse and false imprisonment back in the Fall and those are the same charges Tracy is facing. Tim got five years in prison.
During Tim Ferriter's trial, his lawyers claimed the teen suffered from a condition called Reactive Attachment Disorder and that the Ferriters were at their wits end in trying to deal with his violent tendencies.
If Tracy Ferriter does go to trial, her defense team, which is different from her husband's, will introduce jurors to a doctor who did not testify at Tim's trial.