Parents Forced Daughter to Live in Woods After Eating Pop-Tart: Police

[joeybee12]

Two South Carolina parents were arrested this week after forcing their 14-year-old daughter to live in a tent in the woods because she ate a Pop-Tart without permission, authorities said.

The Sumter County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday James Driggers, 33, and his wife Crystal Driggers, 36, had been denying their child entrance to their home for two days — and she was expected to remain away from the home for a week.

The child was ordered by her parents to set up a tent — in a wooded area known to have wild hogs — and was provided with only a roll of toilet paper, a flashlight, a whistle, and a watch, police said.

The teen girl was allegedly told by her parents to meet "someone" at a fence on the family's property at specific times during the day if she wanted to receive any food: Her brother delivered her an open can of Spaghetti-Os with a plastic spoon one afternoon, authorities said.

The child was also left to fend for herself during severe thunderstorms that hit the town Thursday night, police said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parents-force-daughter-live-woods-after-eating-pop-tart-n387591

[hobbit709]

1. Why do I get the feeling they're good bible thumpers?

[joeybee12]

2. My first thought was that she kept disrupting...

their meth lab...I bet more comes out.

[get the red out]

6. Not mutually exclusive

Meth labs and bible thumping aren't mutually exclusive.

[el_bryanto]

4. That doesn't seem that good to me; that seems bad.

Why would you describe them as good?

Bryant

[Nitram]

15. "good" attached to "bible thumpers" is an example of irony, bryant

[el_bryanto]

16. Ah. Because they seem bad to me

But there are of course some good believers as well as bad believers.

And my name is Bryant.

[get the red out]

5. You beat me to it

I wonder what denomination? Was my first thought.

[B2G]

11. Based on what?

Because it's wrong to stereotype people, isn't it? Oh I forgot. They're white and from the south, so that's OK.

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"On a Facebook page that appears to be Crystal Driggers’, the married couple are active in the body-building world and have many photos of weight-lifting and dieting. Driggers says she is a coach at a company called “Beach Body” and the couple appears to have a gym set up in their home, according to the Facebook profile and photos."



http://wkrn.com/2015/07/05/s-c-parents-banish-daughter-to-live-in-tent-for-eating-a-pop-tart/

[logosoco]

14. If this is the parents, I think the appropriate punishment

would be that they have to live in the woods for three weeks with nothing to eat but pop tarts and canned spaghetti.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

17. I figured they were health nuts

Although the Spaghetto's make no sense.

[restorefreedom]

3. get social services involved now

wtf is wrong with people? i am for freedom in parenting, but this is insane. and i also would not be surprised if they are devoted "spare the rod" types.

[onehandle]

7. Pop-Tarts and Spaghetti-Os.

I see diabetes in this family's near future.

[Orrex]

8. Their parenting style might be described as "in tents."

[Aristus]

9. South Carolina: The US's version of that creepy, Bible-thumping neighbor

with the scowl, the wagging finger, and the padlocked basement door.

[missingthebigdog]

10. Getting to live in the tent

Instead of with her nut job parents might not be so bad.

The spaghetti-o's, however, should definitely be considered child abuse.

[vankuria]

12. Hope this poor kid is taken away

and the parents face charges, what horrible people.

[closeupready]

13. Reasonable parents, seems to me.

I mean, seriously, what horrible people.

[GreatGazoo]

18. Pop Tart? ---> pup tent n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. omg. poor girl

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. after cops talked to.parents they sent her back outside! they hate their kid

The girl's grandmother called police after hearing she was outside Thursday. The grandmother went in the rain to take the child to her own home right around the corner, authorities said.

After the child was returned home later Thursday night and police talked with the parents, the child was sent back outside.

In a follow-up Friday afternoon, police discovered the girl had been sent back to the tent, more than a quarter-mile from the home.