Illinois couple charged after children found bound and blindfolded in Lawrence

[proud2BlibKansan]

A husband and wife arrested in Lawrence after two of their children were discovered bound and blindfolded outside a Walmart were charged today in Douglas County District Court.

Illinois residents Adolfo Gomez, 52, and Deborah Martha Gomez, 43, were each charged with two counts of abusing a child, and five counts of aggravated endangering a child. Aldolfo Gomez received an additional count of interfering with law enforcement. A Douglas County judge set a $50,000 bond for each defendant.

On Wednesday morning, Lawrence police responded to a call from a Walmart customer who had seen a blindfolded boy, with his hands and ankles tied, sitting on the ground outside a van in the parking lot of the store, on Congressional Drive.

Police said they responded and found a man, later identified as Aldolfo Gomez, standing next to two bound children, a 5-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl. When the man fought police and tried to get into the vehicle, police said, they restrained him with a Taser. Officers located and arrested a woman inside the store.


Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/14/3658937/illinois-couple-charged-after.html#storylink=cpy

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It seems the parents have a history of mistreating their children, according to the story.

Those children need to be removed from that household and hopefully placed as a group with a good family, one that will really nurture them.

I wonder what on earth possesses people to mistreat their children like this.

[lookingfortruth]

2. NO words can express my anger at these parents.

[pnwmom]

3. For once, a taser was used appropriately. n/t