# The newest trend in controlling your child.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 17, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233 "2003-04-17T03:07:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Meros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Meros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meros)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/1 "2003-04-17T03:07:35Z")
So…I’m “watching” the 11:00 news, or rather, reading the SDMB while it is playing in the background and a rather grotesque photo caught my eye. Some sick fucks decided that they were tired of their FOSTER kids rolling around and night and decided the best thing to do would be to fucking duct tape their arms and legs to their bodies. Ok, having lived through two younger sisters I know kids can be a little on the noisy side but still…DUCT TAPE!!! They actually showed pics that the investigating officer took upon arrival…these kids were wrapped up like mummies…pretty much everything was wrapped up except for their heads… Every once in a while I think I might be regaining faith in mankind, then some sick fuck comes along and does something like this. :o ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/2 "2003-04-17T04:05:05Z")
I swear I hate people. Can this be one of those times where we make the punishment fit the crime? Wrap 'em up and rip it off. ---
**Author:** ![Meros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Meros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meros)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/3 "2003-04-17T04:08:39Z")
The onnly hting I can think is thank God the kids are ok. Personally I think a fitting punishment would be to strip them down, wrap them in ducttape, set them in a nice hot room for a while then forcibly rip it from their bodies…then every time their body hair grew back do it again…for a few years…that should teach them…yeah… ---
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/4 "2003-04-17T16:11:58Z")
I saw the same new item last night (I’m in Camden County myself), and they said that the woman had been named “Foster Mother of the Year” last year! And that they were using the duct tape becuase the kids had been removing their own diapers. The 5 y.o. (their “own” child) said it had been done to him as well. The pix came from the husband, who had taken a whole bunch of them in anticipation of a divorce/custody battle with his wife, IIRC, and showed them to a friend who - thank God! - had the sense to report it. File it under WTF were they thinking! And hopefully the state will do a better job of screening (not holding breath). ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/5 "2003-04-17T16:18:21Z")
Wow, that’s pretty fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/6 "2003-04-17T16:23:23Z")
[Here’s](http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/041603_nw_childabuse.html) a link to the story, FYI. ---
**Author:** ![Meros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Meros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meros)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/7 "2003-04-17T16:30:19Z")
Thanks for the link **wireless**. For the life of me I couldn’t find one last night. ---
**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/8 "2003-04-17T16:30:21Z")
I think I had someone do that to me intentionally when I was younger… but thats diffrent… since they let me out… but it was kinda fun… ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/9 "2003-04-17T16:49:19Z")
Damn, right in my own neighborhood. No one’s ever said Levittown was a perfect little town. I guess she had stocked up on duct tape & plastic during the homeland security warnings. Can’t let that duct tape go to waste no can we. I want to know what the husband was thinking when he took the pictures. “Hmm, this is a horrible thing and something should be done. I know, I’ll take pictures for a few months and then maybe show them to someone.” Why the hell didn’t he STOP the crazy broad? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/10 "2003-04-17T18:19:15Z")
As a frustrated parent I’ve occasionally thought fleetingly of this tactic, but I’d never act on it. Foster Mother of the Year, indeed. I knew a baby who wouldn’t keep her diaper on so they regularly used duct tape on it, but that was on the DIAPER. It never touched her skin. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/11 "2003-04-17T21:59:26Z")
having been wrapped up in duct tape to make a dressmaker’s dummy, I can say that it is thoroughly unpleasant to be confined that way, even if it doesn’t touch your skin, and it is voluntary. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/12 "2003-04-17T22:30:16Z")
These people are so wrong! The right way to control a child with duck tape is fully described [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=68271&highlight=Jurassic+park+baby) , but you’ll have to scroll to the bottom of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Margo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Margo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Margo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/13 "2003-04-17T23:44:56Z")
I had a baby with severe reflux, and that child did not sleep for longer than 15 minutes at a time from the time he was 3 months until he was 12 months and I _never_ would even consider punishing him. Taking off their diapers? And they thought wrapping the children in duct tape was an ok idea? Where did this idea even come from? They are children, two and one? Perhaps the same thing should be done to those two parents to see how it feels. I cannot even fathom that someone would even consider doing that to a child. Margo ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/14 "2003-04-18T00:05:27Z")
One of the pictures is on Drudge right now and it is very DISTURBING. It is so disturbing, I don’t even care anymore. It is hard to believe creatures like that woman exist. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/15 "2003-04-18T00:19:32Z")
The headline underneath that on the Drudge report? \*\*Texas Couple Accused of Decapitating Kids \*\*. Why? ---
**Author:** ![Toddly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/16 "2003-04-18T01:28:50Z")
I too saw those stories on the DRUDGE REPORT and felt enraged. How do people do this to children?? How do they live daily without going crazy at what they have done…I cannot fathom the thought of doing harm to children no matter what the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/17 "2003-04-18T01:34:09Z")
Gaah!! I just came from the thread about the decapitated kids. Words fail me. ☹ [ever-so-slight hijack] I’ve heard of the duct tape suggestion for keeping a diaper on, but simply putting the diaper on backwards and fastening it in the back works well too. At least until the kid figures it out. [/ever-so-slight hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/18 "2003-04-18T20:15:37Z")
She should be given a _brazilian bikini wax_…using super glue instead of wax. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/19 "2003-04-18T21:18:30Z")
These people thought their kids shouldn’t ‘steal’ food. [Three Face Trial in Boy’s Duct-Tape Death](http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5665806.htm) ---
**Author:** ![chattywine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233/20 "2003-04-19T16:54:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Greywolf73 \* > \*\*[ever-so-slight hijack] > I’ve heard of the duct tape suggestion for keeping a diaper on, but simply putting the diaper on backwards and fastening it in the back works well too. At least until the kid figures it out. > [/ever-so-slight hijack] \*\* :smack: **Greywolf73** Brilliant! Thx! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-trend-in-controlling-your-child/169233.md?page=2)