Police: Mother Duct-Taped Children, Posted Pictures On Web
POSTED: 8:34 am EDT April 1, 2008
UPDATED: 9:00 am EDT April 1, 2008
BELLINGHAM, Mass. -- A mother who duct-taped her children to chairs and then placed their photos on MySpace.com is facing charges of child abuse.
Amber Green, 23, and her live-in fiance, Lee Smith, 29, have been charged by police with two counts of assault and battery.
"The pictures clearly depict that Amber and Lee went to the extreme in wrapping duct tape around the kids,'' Bellingham Oficer David Ayotte wrote in a police report.
Police said Green admitted to taping her 5 and 6-year-old children, they "asked to play with the tape and wanted to be tied up,'' the report said.
The tape was wrapped around the children's stomachs and chest and close to their throats, police said. The pictures show the children upset and crying.
"It is a possibility that the children may have had a difficult time breathing,'' according to the report.
Green posted the photos on MySpace for her friends to see.
They were spotted by a woman who said she saw "disturbing photos of Green's children secured and bound to chairs with duct tape'' and called police.
Both Green and Smith were freed without bail after their court appearance last month. They are due back on court Monday.
POSTED: 8:34 am EDT April 1, 2008
UPDATED: 9:00 am EDT April 1, 2008
BELLINGHAM, Mass. -- A mother who duct-taped her children to chairs and then placed their photos on MySpace.com is facing charges of child abuse.
Amber Green, 23, and her live-in fiance, Lee Smith, 29, have been charged by police with two counts of assault and battery.
"The pictures clearly depict that Amber and Lee went to the extreme in wrapping duct tape around the kids,'' Bellingham Oficer David Ayotte wrote in a police report.
Police said Green admitted to taping her 5 and 6-year-old children, they "asked to play with the tape and wanted to be tied up,'' the report said.
The tape was wrapped around the children's stomachs and chest and close to their throats, police said. The pictures show the children upset and crying.
"It is a possibility that the children may have had a difficult time breathing,'' according to the report.
Green posted the photos on MySpace for her friends to see.
They were spotted by a woman who said she saw "disturbing photos of Green's children secured and bound to chairs with duct tape'' and called police.
Both Green and Smith were freed without bail after their court appearance last month. They are due back on court Monday.
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