“Police also have no evidence that Tennen’s mouth was stapled as he maintains, Murphy said.”
Well,,,, with my experience with staplers,,,, the kid would have to have really, really thin lips for them to be stapled shut.
Indeed.
Moreover, imagine using a Swingline stapler to staple the lips shut of someone resisting it being done to them. It takes both my wife and I to administer one single pill to an 18 pound housecat, with me pinning the little bastard down like I'm an NFL outside linebacker trying to strip the ball fat the bottom of a dogpile, so you know trying to staple the lips of a grown man intent on preventing it from happening would be harder than trying to pour a whole bottle of Robitussen down the throat of a harbor seal.