2 moms and dads in Kentucky have actually been detained after they whipped and tortured their five-year-old boy for coloring outside the lines on his research job, authorities state.
Ricky and Nichole North, 27 and 24, respectively, were implicated of “penalizing” the young kid with physical abuse. The set were detained on March 30, following an examination by Middlesboro Authorities Department.
According to authorities, the examination exposed that they deliberately abused Ricky North’s five-year old kid “by duct taping his limb, penalizing him with cold showers, punching and slapping him in the head and face, choking and body knocking him.”
Authorities included that the kid had actually been whipped “for coloring beyond the lines on research/ schoolwork.”
He had actually likewise supposedly been held “by his ankles” and had his head knocked into the flooring “various times.”
“The kid went through this abuse, vicious confinement, and vicious penalty on various events while in Mr. and Mrs. North’s care,” detectives specified.
The Norths were charged with first-degree criminal abuse, damaging proof, strangulation and failure to report kid overlook and abuse.
According to public records, both are being hung on $100,000 bond at the Bell County Detention Center. It is uncertain if they have actually gotten in pleas.
Examinations into the event stay continuous.