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Caretaker Charged After Forcing Disabled Man To Stand Barefoot In Red Ant Bed

September 20, 2011 at 7:08 am by  

Caretaker Charged After Forcing Disabled Man To Stand Barefoot In Red Ant BedPlant City, FL — A Florida caretaker was arrested last week after allegedly forcing a mentally disabled man to stand barefoot on fire ant hills as punishment for stealing money.

Quentin Amos, 21, a caretaker at a Plant City group home, was arrested in connection with the incident and another caretaker remains under investigation.

According to police, another caretaker at the home, Martine Florexil, reported the theft of $390 in cash and three checks back on September 8. Amos had reason to believe a 21-year-old resident of the home had something to do with the theft, so he decided to dish up some punishment.

On Sunday, September 11, Amos and another caretaker forced the victim to remove his socks and shoes and stand on the ant bed for an undisclosed amount of time. After being bitten multiple times, the victim was then forced to place his hands atop the bed. The man later told police Amos threatened to hit him if he stepped off. A second resident of the group home told deputies he was punished in the same manner.

Police say the victim did not receive medical treatment until the next day.

Florexil told police she wasn’t working when the alleged abuse occurred and said she never encouraged anyone to retaliate on her behalf. She said she doesn’t condone Amos’ actions. She has no plans to press charges against the resident, who has since been removed from the home and placed with his grandparents, and has recovered a partial amount of the missing cash.

Amos was charged with one count of abuse of a disabled adult and later released on $2,000 bond. The group home has had it’s license suspended.

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    • http://profiles.google.com/ldhummingbird Tracey Jones

      Fire ants?! Omg, I’m in pain just thinking about it.

    • Anonymous

      Bury him up to his neck in sand, pour honey on his head, release 1001 fire ants right in front of him, commence to record on your camera phone for a new youtube sensation.

    • http://tothechest.com Pete Puma

      I think Florexil is the name of the drug I’m taking for that stinging in my pee-hole.

    • http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

      These must be different then the type of ants we have around here……this sucks as a form of “punishment”, though creative, I wonder how potentially dangerous this could have been if the victim was allergic to these ants. I would imagine it would be like a form of poisoning someone.

    • Anonymous

      Did this  caretaker just leave money and checks laying around for anyone to steal?Some care taker!, abusing the patients as he sees fit…pfft!  What qualified this punk to be a caretaker? Is he a caretaker of the grounds or the patients? I have been biten at least 30 different times by fire ants. They are mean lil bastards.  Here in Texas it seems every ant is a fire ant.

    • http://www.dreamindemon.com Jaded

      I knew I could count on you, Pete. 

    • Anonymous

      It’s not the bite that bothers you its the itching for 3 weeks afterward.

    • Anonymous

      iLLusionS, if you don’t have Fire Ants where you are consider yourself lucky. They are vicious little bastards. You don’t have to be allergic to be killed or seriously hurt by them either. They swarm in such numbers that people have been overwhelmed by the amount of venom, much like killer bees. I was bitten on the foot by one single little ant two weeks ago while walking my dog and I still have a big red spot. It is a really painful sting too. Honestly, I would rather be stung by a wasp or bee. I’d like to punch him in his stupid smug face.

    • LeaveMeBe

      As Dangerous said, fireants can kill even if the person isn’t allergic. Here in Texas they kill animals frequently, wild (baby deer, birds, squirrels, armadillos, etc..) and domesticated (cats, dogs, calves and foals). I always had to carry epi pens when my children were small because they were both allergic to them. Their bite is painful and the resulting sore can last for weeks. Mine always tend to get infected too for some reason. Needless to say what the caretakers did to this man is torture, pure and simple.

    • http://tothechest.com Pete Puma

      I’ve got your back…side…always.

    • http://twitter.com/Q_Jordon Quintin Jordon

      Quentin Amos, 21, a caretaker at a Plant City group home, was taken to prison and bent over in his cell as punishment for him torturing a mentally challenged (retard) elderly man.  A plastic tube was rammed up Mr. Amos’s ass, while fire ants were introduced at the end of the tube.

      Ouchy mama!!!

    • Anonymous

      Rubbing bar soap on the bite does help.

    • Anonymous

      As a kid this happened to me various times. However I lived in PR & the fire ants aren’t big. but the number when they swarm was big. You can’t get rid of them by shaking them off, you have to run to a hose & spray them off which help with their bites.

      The rest of the day your feet itch. The problem besides being an unusual punishment & his total lack of authority in this whole incident is the amount of time the victim was made to stand there.

      With that said, why don’t we introduce him to a form of more cruel punishment? WASPS!

      Slap a big fat chunk of corned beef on his head & slather his dirty fucking ass in the syrup the soda machines use to make any sort of soda. Let’s see if he likes getting bitten by insects. All of this should happen in an undisclosed amount of time.

    • Pyncky

      I am so sorry, but the image that came to my mind was an old western town with the town bully shooting at the feet of the town nerd while yelling ‘DANCE – DANCE – DANCE”

    • LeaveMeBe

      GoJo liquid soap is what we always use and it works great both for the sting and the itch.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKSJ42VBXNAFJLOH54Y3K4KTXU Heather Habilatory

      What a raging douche canoe. I can’t believe he got another caretaker to help him do this! What is WRONG with people? “Oh hey, let’s make this retard (not the word I’d use, but they probably would) stand on a fire ant hill!” Who the hell answers with “Sure!” ?!

    • http://profiles.google.com/ldhummingbird Tracey Jones

      Fortunately they can’t survive below a certain ground temperature (it’s like 16 or 12… can’t seem to find it now) so north of a certain frost line we’re safe from them… for now.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1069158605 Randy Whisnant

      That neighbor is hot! Damn son.

    • http://www.facebook.com/dre.mosley Dre Mosley

      Oh, it’s Plant City. . . .well, that explains alot.  It’s just a series of trailers strung together.