Parents tied son to tree for 18 hours before he died.

[laureloak]

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3057890/

Callers to 911 seeking help for a 13-year-old boy who authorities have said was tied to a tree for two nights did not answer a dispatcher when asked what the teen was doing before he stopped breathing.
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Brice McMillan told Edgecombe County deputies he tied his son to a tree last Tuesday as a punishment for disobedience, Sheriff James Knight said.

He untied him Wednesday morning and then tied him for a second time Wednesday night when the boy started misbehaving again. Sandra McMillan, the boy's stepmother, found him unconscious at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

According to arrest warrants read during their first court appearance on Monday, Tyler had bruises on his wrists, cuts on his body and flesh missing from his buttocks.

Authorities have said his wrists and angles were bound with plastic wrap and that he was also tied to the tree with some other material.

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Note that NC was going through a record heat wave at the time.

[Catherina]

1. ! :( That poor child n/t

:cry:

[thereismore]

2. Jesus Christ, I hate these people. nt

[DesertRat]

3. Imagine the pain that poor boy endured before his death

"Tyler had bruises on his wrists, cuts on his body and flesh missing from his buttocks." :cry:

[malaise]

15. What the fugg is wrong with adults

Throw away the key. The poor kid already lost his mother.

[Eurobabe]

4. WTF??

Then another kid was run over on a road somewhere because he had demons? :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[niyad]

5. "there was flesh missing from his buttocks"???? the child was tortured.

I wish I believed in hell, because people like this, and that one who murdered the toddler the other day, deserve the worst that could possibly happen to them.

[rebel with a cause]

14. It is called a whipping with a belt.

A belt acts as a whip and will cut the flesh, especially if the boys pants were pulled down to expose his skin to the lashes. There are ways that you can identify the way the flesh is cut and I am sure that it will not be long before they identify the instrument used to make the injuries. Oh, the toddler was beat, kicked and stomped on the country road by his 27 year-old father. This stuff has happened before, we just hear about it more but that makes it no less horrible and shocking.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. This relates to a Lounge thread I started about a couple on Supernanny.

The Drake family was on Supernanny last week. They live in GA. They were scared to death of letting their kids out of their sight. They had a new RV and were scared to go on vacation for fear their kids would get out of their sight.

This sounds like control freak rednecks to me. They insist on imprisoning the child and abusing him to "break his will". And they consider disobedience to be normal childhood behavior, such as crying when they need food, exploring the environment, wanting to go outside and explore, wetting their pants when they are too young to control their bladders, and such.

This kind of extreme authoritarianism creates great psychological harm. Abused children pass it on to their children when they grow up. This sort of absolute obedience is what produced Hitler. Read "The Drama of the Gifted Child" by Alice Miller, and also works by John Bradshaw, Ph.D. who popularized and expanded on Alice Miller's ideas.

Oprah has mentioned the same thing in black families. She said "you were told to shut your mouth or you'd get a whipping" so you would suppress your opinions. Lots of fundies are into that sort of violence. They think you have to break a child's will. It often produces kids who get the hell out when they are 18, and they never look back.

Extreme fundie example: The Phelps family. Some of the kids have left and written about it.

What these bastards do to normal children is truly criminal. I am glad the people who tied the boy to a tree are being charged with murder.

This is so sad. :cry:

[KatyaR]

8. What was that book that was out a few years ago about "Bible-based childrearing?"

That family sounds like they've read that book.

Poor boy, what a horrible way to die, even moreso since it was at his parents' hands.

They deserve the same to be done to them.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. James Dobson. He believes in beating children and animals.

To show them who's boss. :cry: Asshole.

[rebel with a cause]

16. It use to be called respecting you elders.

I didn't agree with it then, but I think some of it today would be a good thing. Today I meet too many children that have no respect for older people, and are just as apt to curse and threaten someone as not.

My children were allowed to speak their mind to me but they were taught to respect other people and not speak out of place. I was taught the old fashion way and I never learned to not tell people what I thought(not rude, just what I thought). I got many a beating for it, but I knew I would probably get a beating for something anyway, so I picked my battles, decided what was worth it and acted accordingly. With that said, I never got a belt used on me, nor did I ever get tied up or put in danger of dying from heat stroke. I never could take heat, so I spent many a day in bed with a fan on me, kept in ice cubes broke up by my mother (the same woman that beat me).

The religious thing is "spare the rod and spoil the child". The problem with them using this is the true meaning is that you guide with the rod, not whip. The rod was used to tap on the shoulders of the animal to show them which way they were meant to go, so it is true that if you do not give guidence to a child they will indeed be spoiled and unmanagable, but that does not mean hitting. Also, disciple means rules and guidence not punishment. Parents should be educated by us elite liberals. ;)

[mzmolly]

7. "disobedience"?

Children are not freaking dogs.

How horribly sad.

[proud patriot]

9. omg that poor child

:cry:

[aikoaiko]

10. Life in prison. please.

[Deja Q]

11. Sick. Sick. Sick.

I don't know what he'd done or if he was a monster or something, but that punishment is just wrong. Never mind the other cuts and bruises mentioned in the article, yeesh...

[27inCali]

12. maybe in some cases torture is appropriate

I mean, if they can convict these people of this crime in a court of law.
They probably should be tortured.
To do this to anyone is insane, but to your own blood?
I hope they at least get the death penalty.
We gotta keep these animals from breeding.

[Lex]

13. The heat was 100+ when he was tied up.

Poor kid. :cry: