Authorities say children tied to bed in Texas home
DAYTON, Texas (AP) — The eight children confined in a small, dark bedroom with a piece of plywood over the window included two 2-year-olds tied to a bed and a 5-year-old girl "in a restraint on a filthy mattress," the child welfare worker who discovered them said in a court document.
The 5-year-old was legally blind and "appeared to be in a daze," the worker said. The girl was among 11 children removed from the 1,700-square-foot home where authorities said more than 20 people lived in Dayton, about 40 miles northeast of Houston. The 10 adults in the home may have included a sex offender who listed it as his address on the state registry.
The children ranged in age from 5 months to 11 years. Two of the youngest had what authorities feared was pneumonia and were taken to a hospital, the court document said. Another child had a black eye and a missing tooth.
The children in the bedroom had been bound around the chest and tied to the bed, leaving them only 1 to 2 feet for movement, the document said. Adults in the home told investigators they "tie the children up for safety" at night and during daytime naps, but one of the children said he typically was kept in the room for up to three days, it said.
http://amarillo.com/news/texas-news/2012-02-22/authorities-say-children-tied-bed-texas-home
[font color=green]How sad and pathetic. 
The adults involved should be sent to jail and receive the same treatment as the children.[/font]
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Very sad. I just wonder how the welfare workers even found out about this torture house.
All of those children will need a lot of mental health care as well as other forms of health care. What is sad is that the State of Texas of course doesn't provide much in the case of mental health care.
I think the best you can say for their situation - is at least they were found and freed. My heart goes out to these poor kids.
