Posted on 10/13/2006 2:16:45 AM PDT by Sherri-D
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A father was arrested and charged with keeping his 9-year-old son locked in a bedroom for much of the past three years and watching his every move with surveillance cameras.
The home of Randall Warren Piercy, 41, was like a prison that had cameras in almost every room, with the father monitoring the boy on TV and computer screens, sheriff's Lt. Annie Smith said Thursday.
Over the past three years, the boy did not attend school, receive medical attention or have contact with people outside the family, Smith said. Authorities said he was home-schooled but could not read children's books.
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The kid was abused....not homeschooled.
yeah but they just had to get a slam in against homeschoolers.
How do you figure that?
He was abused. Pure and simple.
Because homeschooling was irrelevant to the issue. The guy is deranged and abusive.
Homeschooling is a threat to the liberals as it doesn't allow them to indoctrinate our kids.
Right. If he was homeschooled he could read. He wasn't homeschooled, he was abused.
Just heard some brief comments from Mom on the radio. She tearfully said they weren't abusive just protective, very very protective. Thats what she said.
Why isn't she in jail as well?
That's a question for investigators.
Florida * Absolutely * Sucks.
Been there and done that. They keep telling me what a "good man" Jeb Bush is. Perhaps. But not much of a governor.
I think "DHS" should read "DFS." They have changed their name a time or two in the past decade and adopted some harmless looking logo's in order to soften their image.
The child was homeprisoned.
On the other hand, maybe it was like a city with cameras on almost every street corner, with the police monitoring the 'civilians' on TV and computer screens?
Seems there are more people on this thread concerned about protecting the concept of homeschooling than the obvious abuse of this child by his insane parents.
I didn't see it that way at all. I saw various people ticked that homeschooling parents were being subtly portrayed as abusers - as if that were relevant to the story. I think this board has always been pretty consistent that this type of abusing parent should be buried in a desert anthill up to their neck in the heat of the day with syrup poured all over their head.
Interesting how bad teachers are only in the public schools. A blatantly bad home teacher emerges and many here get a case of chronic denial.
Has the man given any real indication as to why he was performing this odd and abusive experiment on the child? Or why the mother allowed it? Best guess is that she was intimidated and abused by her husband.
I devoutly hope that somebody locks up the man and focuses a camera on him 24/7, allows him to use the bathroom once a day and all the rest of the stuff he did to the child.
This boy is very lucky he had a grandfather who cared. So many children don't have that. I hope they look into the mother too. She may also have been abused by the father or could be just another nutcase. I hope the boy turns out alright after going thru all this. Prayers for him. Anyone know if there were any other children?
To be blunt, yes. And why is that a problem for you? This poor kid has taken his lumps. He's now about to go into the tender ministrations of our government-run foster care system, which will be about as bad as what he got at home. It sucks and he probably has a really messed up life ahead of him.
Some of us are still trying to raise our children in a reasonably sane manner during the last decades of Western Civilization. That means, first and foremost, keeping them out of the government schools. Believe it or not, that means a lot to us. It's our kids and they haven't been ruined yet. Much of the education establishment wants to force them into government schools. This type of news item is a part of that campaign.
So go ahead and pontificate about how concerned you are about a kid who has had a miserable time. None of us on this thread have ever met him or his parents. Nor have we any control whatsoever over his life. No crocodile tears or posturing on this forum will make any difference in this poor child's life. So go ahead and feel good about how much you care for this child. It's cheap.
But homeschooling still has some time left and during that time, my boy can get a good education and a good upbringing. That's not cheap--it means a much lower standard of living and a lot of work. But I do have control over that.
So I will fight visciously and unfairly in every place to prevent the state from taking control over my kid. If that mean offending sensibilities on a forum I love, so be it.
Part of that fight is to humbug the notion that homeschoolers are likely to be abusers, which has been the new mantra of the Old Media in the past couple of years. This article is just one of many in which the Old Media continues to float that idea out. Unfortunately, a small, but not trivial, group of conservatives seem to feel that it has some merit.
Were the media neutral on this issue, each time a government school child is abused, they would report that he is a government schooler. Have you EVER seen such a report?
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