Teen tied to tree overnight dies

[Liberal_in_LA]

I'm calculating the amount of time this boy was tied up.. from Wednesday night (say 9pm) to Thursday 4:30pm. That's 19 hours with no food, water, or anyone checking on him? What the hell?



http://www.gantdaily.com/news/35/ARTICLE/22859/2008-06-13.html

The youngster was tied to a tree Tuesday night for disobedience, authorities reportedly said Friday. The teen was released Wednesday morning, then tied to the tree again Wednesday night.

Temperatures climbed into the 90s on Thursday and when his step-mother checked on him at about 4:30 p.m. she found him lying on the ground unresponsive.




http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3039098/

Teen tied to tree overnight dies


Posted: Today at 10:09 a.m.
Updated: Today at 7:14 p.m.

Macclesfield, N.C. — A 13-year-old boy who was tied to a tree two nights this week died Thursday, and his father and stepmother have been charged with murder, authorities said Friday.

Brice Brian McMillan, 41, and Sandra Elizabeth McMillan, 36, both of 1110 Felton Farm Road in Macclesfield, have been charged with first-degree murder and felony child abuse. They were being held Friday in the Edgecombe County Detention Center without bond.



The father said he untied the boy Wednesday morning and allowed him back into the house, but he was tied to the tree a second time that night when he started acting up again. The boy remained tied up until his stepmother found him unconscious at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.

[Fuzz]

1. The dog was probably in the house.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Simple punishment: Tie THEM to a tree.

I read stuff like this and I have to go grab a cat to hold or put on some calming music or I swear I'm gonna blow a valve. :grr:

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. They are homeschoolers. Perhaps if this kid was enrolled in public school authorities would have

noticed the abuse

[ironrooster]

8. I hope your post isn't an indictment

of homeschooling - there are many sane and reasonable homeschooling families out there. These people are CRAZY which is a completely different issue don't you think?

[crikkett]

11. the piont being made is, the isolation of a child in private tutelage/homeschooling

allows abuse to go undetected.

And a kid acting up sounds like a socialization problem, common among homeschooled/tutored children.

It's not just homeschooling, socialization is also a problem for kids who are privately tutored because they're acting or doing some other artistic/athletic work.

[noamnety]

15. " a kid acting up sounds like a socialization problem"

you DO realize kids act up in public schools, right?

you're pulling a bit of a Dr. Frist here.

[Ghost in the Machine]

17. Shhh... don't spoil the hyperbole with facts or anything... :-)

[crikkett]

37. fair

[DBoon]

19. if the OP doesn't indite homeschooling

then I will.

Allowing parents to pull their children out of a system that allows for supervision of their children for third parties is an open invitation to abusive, sadistic parents to torture and kill their children and get away with it

And I don't care how many home school trolls I offend

[Athens30603]

27. Come on, now...

A person disagreeing with you about homeschooling doesn't make them a "troll".

[ironrooster]

28. I think if you check my other posts you will find them rather

un-troll like. What about folks in public schools that are deteriorating - but are unable to move elsewhere? So yes, although my children are in public school - homeschooling can be a legitimate choice. What we need are left leaning homeschooling curriculums.

[liberalhistorian]

29. Well, whatever great and wonderful

school you attended sure didn't do its job since you can't even spell "indict" correctly. And you sure learned to paint with a broad brush there, too, didn't you?

[leftofcool]

31. As a retired teacher, I have seen many gifted, talented,

and socially well adjusted home schooled children.

[kath]

38. Thanks for saying it.

I've got two of them right here in my house. And I know lots more...

[crikkett]

18. .

Sorry, I continue to self-edit.

[Canuckistanian]

14. I say go all British Navy on their ass

Tie them AND the boy's body to the tree - with the parents face-to-face to the boy.

[madeline_con]

34. Better yet, hang them from it. eom

[lonestarnot]

4. WTF!

Sons of a bitches!

[babylonsister]

5. Charging them with murder sounds like a good thing. nt

[Seabiscuit]

6. And you wonder why this country is so fucked! It is awful how we abuse the old and the young. This

is truly sad. Peace to this young soul.

[MuseRider]

7. My parents used to do that

but they never left us that long. Right in the front yard next to the street. It was humiliating. That was most likely the point.

Poor kid, poor poor kid.

[crikkett]

12. Oh my, poor you.

I keep editing myself. I have no appropriate words...

[MuseRider]

26. Back then

all the parents that would drive by would wave and laugh. It was nothing like this. It wasn't right but it was nothing like this.

[ingac70]

20. Over a couple of days...

goes past humiliation.

My Dad got tied up by his grandmother when he was 4, but that was after he had run off from the yard and almost got hit by a train. He remembers it plain as day, and how mad she was. He never left her yard after that.

[MuseRider]

24. I did not mean this child

I meant when my parents did it it was for humiliation. No, I agree. This was way beyond that.

[DBoon]

21. an hour or two is humiliation

overnight is physical torture

[ingac70]

22. By his wrist and ankles, no less.

God knows what he had been through over the years before it reached this point.

[MuseRider]

25. Absolutely.

See post 24, I did not mean that this was humiliation. It was for me. He was absolutely tortured.

[jobycom]

9. They'll get food and water tied to their "tree."

If there is any decency in them at all, they will suffer worse from their own internal torments than anything the penal system can inflict on them, though.

RIP, kid. You never got a chance.

[patrice]

10. Makes me think about the spirit of such a child, his instinct to resist . . .

I don't know whether to be in awe or sorrow.

I do know that I hate fucking ignorant oppression. Some people DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to be parents.

[Poll_Blind]

13. See, I have this simple rule: Never do to my kids what I wouldn't do to an Al Quaeda member.

:shrug:

PB

[MrSlayer]

16. Nail them to a tree.

Until they expire. Nothing less than they deserve.

[newmajority]

23. As long as they don't come back in three days

...then bring on the crucifixions.

[Cleita]

30. Stupid people.

That's not how you discipline children. Also, sometimes bad behavior can be another problem. Sometimes one should take them to a doctor to rule out any illnesses or psychological problems first.

[Prefer]

32. Gouge their eyes out

and make them wander the barren land feeling for dusky roots down on their knees.

[johnaries]

33. I am reminded of a local case

where the parents of a young girl decided to make her walk back and forth on the porch for hours. When she said she was thirsty, they gave her hot sauce to drink. She died.

I can't believe the justification some people will use for their own sadistic tendecies.

[madeline_con]

35. Sounds like Ursula, and the avenging of her death.

JUSTICE, TALK RADIO-STYLE
Monday, Oct. 21, 1996 By JAMES COLLINS Article ToolsPrintEmailReprintsSphereAddThisRSSYahoo! Buzz The Russ & Bo Show, a talk-radio program broadcast in the evening over WTKS-FM in Orlando, Florida, usually concerns itself with "women and beer," as one of the hosts, Russ Rollins, puts it. But on Sept. 25, the show addressed the subject of child abuse, commemorating the death exactly 14 years earlier of Ursula Sunshine Assaid. When she was five years old, Ursula was tortured and killed by her mother's boyfriend, Donald McDougall. The murder still causes bitterness in Orlando, and on the anniversary, the Russ & Bo Show devoted five hours to it. Between phone calls, Rollins graphically described the suffering Ursula endured. Building to an emotional peak at 8:50, the time of her death, he then called for a moment of silence. As Rollins told TIME, "Dead air on a radio program is strong."

One of the people listening that night was Arba Earl Barr, 33, an inmate at the Avon Park Correctional Institution, the same prison in which McDougall was incarcerated. Barr was serving a 114-year sentence on assault and robbery charges. On Oct. 1, say police, Barr, McDougall and 200 other inmates were in the prison yard after dinner, when Barr took the steel post used in a game of horseshoes and beat McDougall to death with it.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985347,00.html

[Catherine Vincent]

36. Sick fucks!

:mad: