Boy tied up for running away
Cops: Boy Bound As Form Of Punishment:
35-year-old Jonathan Viera and his main squeeze, 25-year-old Jennifer Terrell, were both arrested by police in Deltona, Florida for tying up Viera’s teen son on a couch with zip ties securing his ankles and wrists.
Why did they tie him up you may ask? Why for running away of course. Doesn’t that make perfect sense? If by perfect you mean no sense then yes.
The teen had help from another boy who lived in the house who cut the zip ties for him.
I wonder what they did before to make him run away in the first place.
Thanks to Marcy for the tip.
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February 5th, 2010 at 1:59 am
Tying kids up is just another one of those “trends” that people use to get out of proper parenting…like biting, starving, etc. Yeah, I was a total tomboy, built my own treehouse, but this stuff is out of a science fiction book. Can’t even make it up!
February 4th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
one of the commentors on the link posted by Trench said:
So… I don’t think that “normal” burises and scrapes on kids is a reason to call DCF (by “normal” I mean the ones kids get from normal play, bumping their shins, tripping, etc… as clumsy as I was as a child, I would have been removed from my parents care if that were the case). However, if she is right about the mom losing custody because she was in the service, that is awful. Serving our country is not “abandonment”.
I know someone who had a problem with her young teen daughter sneaking out at night to meet up with someone who was legally an adult. She found ways of handling the situation that did not involve tying the girl up (though I know the thought crossed her mind.) Tying a child up for hours is abusive… what if he has to go to the bathroom?
February 4th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
And there were 6 kids living in the house. CRAP!!
http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/01/teen-was-fit-to-be-tied.html
February 4th, 2010 at 11:56 am
He was tied up for FIVE hours. FIVE!!! Holy Hell!
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2010/02/couple_ties_up_teen_to_keep_hi.html
February 4th, 2010 at 9:20 am
I’m not quite sure how to respond here. We had custody of a teen who would sneak out at night to go party with friends. And, he’d lie about it. Of course, he left a chair under his bedroom window and was spotted a couple of times by a neighbor while climbing out of the window (oh, and back in). Almost makes me wish zip-ties were a legal form of restraint for a foster parent. But *sigh* it’s not.
Was this a first time occurrence? And, if so then the parents should be in trouble, but I think prison is a bit much. There are a lot of unknowns. The kid could be a trouble maker who’s involved in the wrong crowd. The parents could have had enough (not a justification for zip ties). Or, it could be that this kid has suffered abuse and that’s why he was trying to run away. There are too many holes in the news article for me to form any solid opinion.
February 4th, 2010 at 3:45 am
I thought that’s what those zip ties were designed for.