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Police found the child behind the home on Coston Drive around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday night. The boy told officers the alleged abuse started since he "got out of school for this corona thing."
The child's grandmother Esmerelda Lira, 53, and her boyfriend, Jose Balderas, 66, were arrested.
The child told child abuse detectives during a forensic interview that whenever his grandmother left the home, she put him in the shed, tied him up and told him he was bad. He also said Lira bathed him outside by spraying him with water.
He had been tied up and locked in the shed around 10:30 p.m. the night of the arrests.
The child told police he was always left in the backyard and not allowed to come inside the house. He would be locked up during the night and let out in the morning and given a plastic bag for if he needed to go to the bathroom.
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Balderas told police he was aware of what Lira was doing to the child and did not want to be apart of the situation. He said the child was locked in the shed at least two weeks.
Bond for Lira is set at $100,000 and Balderas' bond is also $100,000.
They both facing felony charges of endangering a child for placing him in imminent danger.
Two other children were removed from the home and placed in CPS custody.
Reader Comments
Only because he's male.
Invert the genders and the F wouldn't be arrested.
Now, what is the other situation, with the arson kid? Did this happen to you? That mom has as much to answer for as any abuser. And should take the consequenses, although I know the system works against you in this case.
If I could, I would personally string up all child abusers. I know that harm.
As re ME? I'd have likely HURT some people BEFORE I called the Nazi Family Enforcement service.*
BUT, that should/must! be a matter between one's self and one's consciousness; not between:
A) one's self & consciousness, AND ALSO,
B) Those concurrently wrestling with the fear that if they do not report the matter, someone else will, and that they will then be at risk of being in trouble for not reporting it earlier!
That is (sadly) the super-typicall human tendency! Look at how an official snitch culture has arisen in six weeks! That is a far greater evil than our concerns that one of ten neighbors might ignore such evil. Most worthwhile folks (which are most folks) would NEVER IGNORE SUCH!; LAWS BE DAMNED!
All the above proves an old truism: Another angle: what individual behavior should be:
a) ignored?
b) shamed?
c) governmentally punished?
And, IF SO,
1) Civilly?; or
2) Criminally?.
My best recommendation is start with JS Mill, 'On Liberty', [free at [Link] ] and work forward.
Please also remember this: 'Our' (sic) "Modern Morality Analyses' (a.k.a., ‘PC Morality Analyses'’) routinely forgives behaviors 10K times worse!; (But wise folks know that those 'philosophers' (sic) have got their heads out of reality and up their asses.)
I am not speaking down, not being denigratory, et al.
This world ain't perfect. It is insanity to have GOVERNMENT demand some 'perfect' legal system. That’s the excuse currently being applied to justify a lifetime lockdown!
R.C.
*With an open mind, NO ONE would - nor should - even CARE if someone makes (or does NOT) that statement!
RC
(Why? Nothing wrong with the 14 year old! Rather, they'd complained to their neighbor, POLITELY asking her to stop having her dog walks end with her dog taking a sh*t on their lawn.
A week later, the bitch phoned in the CFS complaint!
What happened? The pigs get there and they ask my client (who had NO LEGAL RELATIONSHIP with that child) 'What's going on here?"
Client answered: "Nothing at all!"
Pigs: Bring out the kid!
Client said: "Not my kid!"
Pigs: You gonna help us?
Client said: (politely) "No. I don't have to, do I?"
PIGS THEN smacked that person down with batons, hog-tied them (cuffs on ankles, and cuffs on wrists, and both tied together) locked them in the back of their squad car, no engine running, no air conditioning.
It was August in Florida at around 4p. 'Heat Index'? around 110F.
They were taking that person tojail and realized that they were 'non responsive'. Took them to E.R. They ALMOST DIED!
NEXT DAY? OFF TO THE FUCKING JAIL!
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IN THE REAL WORLD!
R.C.
RC
Like the Edward Abbey quote. Don't like house arrest. And yes, they are setting us up for a lifetime of this. Our local cops are really good. Nice living in a very small community.
'I' didn't!
RC
Everyday I am more and more disappointed in humanity.