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The Las Vegas woman charged with failing to protect her child and six stepchildren from her husband’s abuse says she could not intervene because she was also a victim of his “violent” personality and was “scared for [her] life.”

“I was scared for my life and my other kids and my family,” Amanda Stamper, 33, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal of why she allegedly did not stop her husband, Travis Doss, from abusing her stepchildren and the child they share.

“It’s hard for people to understand that unless you’re in that situation.”

Stamper was arrested alongside Doss, 31, on child abuse charges on June 11, when Stamper called police from a drug store to report that she was scared of her partner, the Review-Journal reported.

Police subsequently found six children – aged 2 through 11 – injured, starving, and alone in their one-bedroom apartment, where two of the older boys were locked in pet kennels.

Stamper is now facing seven counts of child abuse and neglect.

“I was dealing with a monster,” she said in a conversation with 8NewsNow.

“{Doss] would use my children, and my family. Like if I was ever to call the police, like, you know, go find my family and my kids. He’s just really a violent person.”

Stamper testified against her husband at the grand jury hearing, the Review-Journal said.

The would-be musician, who also goes by the rap persona “Trap Montana,” is facing 33 counts of child abuse and two kidnapping charges, in addition to separate charges of sex trafficking and living off sex work earnings through force or threat.

According to Stamper, the couple moved from Atlanta to Las Vegas in January 2018 in order to earn money in the sex work industry.

The would-be musician, who also goes by the rap persona “Trap Montana,” is facing 33 counts of child abuse and two kidnapping charges, in addition to separate charges of sex trafficking and living off sex work earnings through force or threat.

She added that she felt like she had no choice but to participate in Doss’ schemes, because he would beat her and threaten to take their young child away from her if she refused.

“It’s always been pretty bad. Anytime I tried to stand up for [the children] though he would lash out at me,” she alleged on the stand, according to the Review-Journal.

Despite the charges against her, Stamper continued to insist that she had no part in perpetuating the abuse on the children.

“I’m sorry but I didn’t do it. I had no control over him,” she added to 8NewsNow.

“I just wanted them to be safe in the end…I wanted everybody out of it. I just wanted him incarcerated, I just knew if he was incarcerated that everybody will be safe.”

On the day of their parents’ arrest, investigators spent at least 10 minutes convincing the terrified children to allow them in the apartment, chilling body camera footage shows.

When they gained entry, officers saw the 11-year-old and 9-year-old boy in the dog crate.