Posted on 01/02/2012 9:26:16 AM PST by billorites
An Arizona couple has been arrested for allegedly posting photos of their two young children bound by duct tape and, in one photo, hanging one of the children upside down from exercise equipment.
Kayla Almunia, 19, and Frankie Almunia, 20, told police that the images were meant as a joke, but authorities aren’t laughing.
“I don’t know how anyone can rationalize or believe that this behavior is in any way funny or a joke,” Coconino County Sheriff’s Commander Rex Gilliland told ABCNews.com. “Law enforcement believes that this is an act of child abuse.”
In the photos, the 2-year-old and 10-month-old are allegedly bound with duct tape around their wrists and ankles. Their mouths were also closed shut with duct tape. Police said one of the children was hung upside down on an exercise apparatus.
Police say Kayla Almunia allegedly posted the photos on Facebook on Wednesday night. Soon after, an anonymous caller reported the images to the police and provided authorities with the couple’s names and address.
Gilliland said police obtained 10 photos from Kayla Almunia’s cell phone of the bound children. All of the photos appeared to have been taken at the same time.
While police said there were no indications that the children had possibly been abused in other ways, the bondage appeared to be traumatic.
“In one photo, the child did appear to be extremely frightened and fearful and in a later one appeared to be crying,” Gilliland said.
The children were initially taken into custody by Child Protective Services but have since been released to what police deemed to be “suitable family members,” Gilliland said.
Gilliland said that the anonymous tipster is the person to thank in this case and encourages others to be similarly vigilant.
“We encourage people to pay attention..."
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The human race is a wasteland.
Okay, that was really creepy.
That’s how I looked this morning!!
2 year old and 10 month old, with two idiots as parents. Those two need to go to the vet and get fixed.
The vet don’t fix that sort of thing ... cyanide does, though.
I wonder if these are the type that should be home schooling
Hell....Michael Jackson could hang his kid over a balcony and child care investigators said that was fine.
Respectfully,
Wintertime
Dang, I though animal behavior deserved a vet.
Looking at the perps' faces, I'd say they have a perverted sense of humor, if any.
I have no desire to see that female Damian reproduce again and the idiot that fell into bed with it is complicit by just being an asshole.
oops ... can I SAY that ?
Maybe this country deserves to go to hell in a handbasket. Maybe they deserve a homosexual America-hating Muslim-loving pissed-off marcissist for President. Maybe it’s almost time for God to come down here and kick someone’s a$$.
ROFLOL
Vets are experts at making steers.
What’s your problem with home schooling?
>>I wonder if these are the type that should be home schooling<<
Got a problem with Homeschoolers?!?
They're just doing their best to prepare them for the *real* world of public education. That way when their teacher does it to them, they won't think it's so unusual and complain about it.
I am convinced of one thing and that's if they had been homeschooled, the article most certainly would have stated so since the MSM never misses a chance to publish a hit piece on homeschoolers.
Must be, then, that they're your typical public school graduates.
Got a problem with Homeschoolers?!?
No problem at all with home schooling, I am all in favor of it, as well as Charter schools, and parochial and public and private schools.
I do have a slight issue with certain individuals that think that homeschooling is the be all end all and that every parent should do it.
Obviously this pair should not be homeschooling and probably should not be reproducing
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