So they bound her head, hands and feet with duct tape, put a wool cap over her head and threw her in the trunk of their car.

As they drove away from 27th Street East on Sept. 12, the couple turned up the radio to drown out their 17-year-old daughter’s apologies and prayers to Jesus.

Somehow, the high school senior broke free from the bindings, opened the trunk using a glow-in-the dark release hatch and jumped from the moving car.

“It was never good decision, but it was never a criminal one,” Young said.
Tears ran down family member’s faces as the verdict was read. Arms were placed around Peggy Ingram.

Ingram pleaded no contest to a false imprisonment charge and was sentenced to 18 months of probation. Under a plea deal with prosecutors, she agreed to testify against her husband.

The couple walked away from the courthouse with their arms encircling each other.

Prior to Sept. 12, the teen had been acting out, Young said. Her parents learned she’d become sexually active and had gotten pregnant by an older man, known only as Eddie. Lawyers did not say how old he was.
http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/story/1293280.html

What a crock of shit. I can’t believe he was found not guilty. If the child had died, would the jury outcome be the same? At least now I know I can throw the kids in the trunk and drive them around when they misbehave. Wow, utterly disgusting.

I think if we had lived in a place with a different layout than we did, I probably wouldn’t even have taken that advice. As it was, the living room faced her bedroom… maybe 7 or 8 feet distance. In a 2 story home? Would’ve asked the counselor for “Plan B”.

With teens… I think that alarm idea would be worth looking into.

Once she understood that bedtime was bedtime, I no longer locked it.

I assume they weren’t just neighbors, but friends of the parents who recognized when their daughter was busy doing something she wasn’t supposed to be. Heck, for all we know it was a sociopath of a boy her parents had been struggling to seperate her from. Eh, can’t duct tape them and toss them in a trunk, but people always seem to want to hold you criminally liable for any crazy thing your teen does, lol. Locking them in their room, btw, is also illegal.

Even if he were some sociopath her parents didn’t want her seeing… it’s not like she was home alone and snuck out… she was with her Godparents and left. If the parents had a problem, I’d think the FIRST to know would be the Godparents who were in charge… not the nosy neighbor across the street. Just my 2 cents.

As for locking kids in their rooms being illegal… where? Since when?

When my daughter was 5, she flat out refused to stay in her room. Night after night after night I would put her back in and try to hold the door closed (any idea how strong a 5 year old can be when they want to win?? Fuck!) I lost quite a few of those tug of wars! lol
Eventually, I asked her counselor about this (daughter was/is ADHD) She said to reverse the lock on the bedroom door! It worked, too. Of course, eventually I also had to put child safety things on her window, too. (She hated bedtime – now she lives for it!) Only things she didn’t try were boring through the walls and digging tunnels! lol. This was in Florida and it’s hard for me to believe a conselor would tell me to do something illegal.

Then you have mom and dad who, on their way to get her, stopped to pick up the duct tape? Why? Is this normal procedure in their disciplinary plans?

At least they did have a moment of clarity when they took her to the hospital! That is the ONLY thing they seem to have done right that night.

Hope the girl recovers fully and the parents are punished accordingly.

This was the first time the girl had snuck out to have a date. I guess this sort of reaction would make her consider joining a convent to prove to her parents that she wasn’t dating anyone!

Supposedly why they did what they did:

That makes a teeny, tiny bit more sense. I guess. Sort of. Maybe. WTF?

Ever heard of grounding or extra chores? She went to meet a boy? No evidence of hickeys or other hanky panky?

What do you want to bet these parents are fundamentalist Christians?

Wow man.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080915/breaking/809150268

damn, only $7000 bail?? they planned to kill her! why else would the take it that far to tape her up and blindfold her?what kind of car has a pull cord in the trunk? thats a good idea!

Being trapped in a car’s trunk (or “boot”) can be a harrowing, sometimes deadly experience. At least 300 people have died from trunk entrapment since 1970, and many more have had to be hospitalized. Sometimes a criminal will force a person into a trunk, and sometimes a person (usually a child) will accidentally get trapped in a trunk, but regardless of the cause of entrapment, a trunk is a very dangerous place to be. Some trunks are nearly airtight and present a risk of suffocation. On hot days, the temperature inside a trunk can quickly reach 140 degrees F or more, turning the storage space into a deadly oven. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to get out of a locked trunk. While some vehicles now have trunk release levers inside, the majority of cars on the road do not. So what can you do? Read on to find out.
information gathered from:
http://www.wikihow.com/Escape-From-the-Trunk-of-a-Car
If you read the tips its actually very interesting.