In Grand Junction, Colorado, John Wilson, 40, and Kristie Moore, 35, were charged with felony child abuse for handcuffing Wilson’s 15-year-old son to a rail in the living room. They also whipped the teenager with a belt and denying him food and bathroom breaks. Moore is Wilson’s live-in girlfriend and police consider her the boy’s stepmother.
The couple were arrested on charges of felony child abuse, complicity, sexual abuse of a child by a person in a position of trust and false imprisonment. All of these charges are felonies and they are both being held without bond.
They would also beat the boy with a black belt the couple kept in the kitchen. Above the belt on a hook the couple kept the keys to the handcuffs. On time, Wilson kicked his handcuffed son in his groin. He would also make the teen do jumping jacks and stair stepping for hours to burn off his energy and anger.
Moore’s 16-year-old daughter was also abused. She told police she had been struck with the same black belt. She was grounded for a year and forced to sit at the kitchen table from the time she returned from school until she went to bed at night for stealing food. Also, she was not allowed outside or to have contact with friends.
Records show that family members reported the couple to the Denver Department of Human Services. Since the family moved nothing was done. The teens were removed from the house in July 2006. But records don’t show what happened after that.
In fact, there’s a huge gap and a delay in follow up and arrest. Two more kids who have fallen through the cracks. How sad.
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