Man Tied Up Kids to Watch Basketball

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Las Vegas, NV (LasVegasNOW) -- For more than two hours, two toddlers were bound and gagged in an apartment complex garage, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.

Twenty-year-old Jonathan Weaver remains behind bars, accused of tying up and gagging two kids he was supposed to be babysitting. He tells police he left the boys so he could go watch the second half of the NBA championship game at a local bar.

"I have seen just about everything, this is the first time I have ever seen anything like this. This is tragic, it was terrifying, it was horrific," said Metro Lt. Ray Steiber with the Special Victim's Detail.

The arrest report says Weaver told police he was upset his girlfriend asked him to watch her 1 and 2-year-old children while she attended night school. According to the report, Weaver didn't think leaving the boys in the garage was a big deal because they had been on garage "camp outs" before.

The report says he strapped the toddlers in their car seats and played with them for 20 to 30 minutes, and then left to meet a friend after the boys fell asleep.

Police say Weaver drove one mile down Silverado Ranch to a PT's Pub. They carded him and kicked him out because he wasn't 21 yet. So he drove another two miles to a PT's at the corner of Eastern and St. Rose Parkway. There he watched the entire second half of the NBA game between the Lakers and Magic.

When the game was over, he drove back to the garage and that's when police arrested him.

The boys were found with a torn piece of long-sleeve shirt in their mouths, and then gagged with duct tape.

Weaver is not the father of the children, but according to the arrest report, their 20-year-old mother is now pregnant with his child.

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At least they were alive.

[Bethany Rockafella]

1. Sick bastid!

[ThomCat]

2. She's going to have this asshole's child?

Damn.

It sounds like she's got an uphill struggle raising two, soon to be three, kids by herself while she goes to school and probably works too. :(

It would be nice her boyfriend was responsible enough to help her, instead of neglecting and abusing her kids and making it harder for her. x(

She has to be thinking that life really sucks right now.

[ORDagnabbit]

3. and this is why every child should be snipped at birth and then have to pass

a test before being given reproductive rights...

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. He's a very lucky guy.

If either of the kids had a sniffle, with their mouths gagged and noses stuffy they could have suffocated - and he'd be in jail for murder instead of child endangerment.

[Lance_Boyle]

5. For a frikkin NBA game?

NCAA I could almost understand...

[Arkansas Granny]

6. So is strapping babies in a car seat and covering their mouths with duct tape

now considered a garage "camp out"? This guy is really sick.

[kiva]

7. A more detailed description of the scene:

"Police and firefighters removed the garage door and found the toddlers strapped in car seats. They were bound with twine and gagged with parts of a ripped T-shirt. The 1-year-old boy had a shirt wrapped tightly around his head. Both boys had white rope wrapped three times around their necks."

Frankly the rope wrapped around the neck part make me wonder exactly what he wanted to happen while he was off watching the game. Sick bastard.

[Berry Cool]

8. Maybe he was trying to make them "Boy Scout kerchiefs" for their "camp out."

Oh man.

I am a defender of human rights for all, but stories like these try my patience because they really do tempt me to believe there are some people in this world too stupid/evil to be permitted to reproduce.

The woman in this situation is too stupid, and the man is too evil.