Stepfather found guilty of child abuse after a Florida restaurant employee saved a boy with a note a

[Judi Lynn]

Stepfather found guilty of child abuse after a Florida restaurant employee saved a boy with a note asking if he needed help

By Jamiel Lynch and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN
Updated 4:23 AM ET, Thu June 9, 2022

(CNN)A stepfather in Florida has been convicted of child abuse after a restaurant employee last year noticed concerning signs and used a surreptitious note to ask a boy if he needed help, the Orange County State Attorney's Office announced Monday.

A jury found Timothy Lee Wilson, 36, guilty of two counts of false imprisonment of a child under the age of 13, three counts of aggravated child abuse with a weapon, four counts of aggravated child abuse, and one count of child neglect, a news release from the state attorney's office said.

An investigation revealed the boy was kept away from his family in a hotel room used for storage, was regularly deprived of food and drink, and was subjected to military-style exercises and other abuses, according to the release. Officers recovered multiple items used as weapons against the child, the release added.

The 11-year-old boy and his family were at the Mrs. Potato restaurant in Orlando on January 1, 2021, when employee Flaviane Carvalho noticed he was sitting secluded from his parents and sibling, was being deprived of food and drink, and was bruised and scratched, CNN previously reported.



Timothy Wilson and Kristen Swann were
arrested in January 2021.

More:
https://us.cnn.com/2022/06/09/us/florida-restaurant-note-stepfather-conviction-child-abuse/index.html

[Whiskeytide]

1. Good on the restaurant employee, but I ...

… have to ask - why isn’t THAT guy an incel?

[COL Mustard]

2. He's a stepfather.

So he very well may be!

[malaise]

3. He looks the part

Lock him up

[alphafemale]

4. Why wasn't the mother charged? She allowed it to happen if not participated.

And she is probably with another loser by now, just to have a man around.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. .

Swann is facing multiple felony abuse charges, including neglect of a child, aggravated abuse and failure to report child abuse, records from the Orange County Clerk's Office show. She has pleaded not guilty. CNN is reaching out to Swann's attorney for comment.

[alphafemale]

9. Good.

I hope someone in those children's lives is responsible.

[True Blue American]

20. I thought she pled ot Gulity

She needs to be put away. If they let those 2 go without long jail time there is no Justice. He needs a vasectomy she needs her tubes tied.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Practicing his "badass" look for his fellow inmates, I see.

Sorry, guy. It ain't gonna work.

[Raster]

11. I am not advocating any kind of prison violence, which I find abhorrent, and just stating fact...

In the penal system, men that abuse/hurt/molest children are called a "MO", as in "MOlester.

They are considered by other inmates --all across the inmate spectrum-- as the lowest of the low.
Everybody in prison is truly out to get them.

[True Blue American]

21. And make sure they do. Women will despise her,too.

[alphafemale]

12. I think that is altered mental status due to drugs, actually

Hardly "badass."

[Novara]

7. And yet banning legal abortion means more of these cases.

Unwanted children often face abuse.

[Delphinus]

15. Yes.

You speak truth.

[thesquanderer]

26. He abused the older child she'd had with another man. He didn't abuse the one they had together.

Not that your point isn't true, but there is no indication that either of these children were unwanted when they were born.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. A Marvel

[Delphinus]

16. Oh,

how beautiful! I need to save that - wonderful!

[jmbar2]

23. Profound

I'd never seen this quote.

There are angels amongst us. Casals, and the waitress.

[Easterncedar]

25. Thank you for offering the antidote

When there's a story that makes me despair of humanity - although the waitress is indeed a saving grace - a thoughtful, philosophically profound message like this helps me to hold on. I am keeping this one. Thanks again, Kid Berwyn.

[MaryMagdaline]

10. Good on the restaurant server

Not afraid to get involved.

[Lonestarblue]

13. Is it because we're a large country that we seem to have excessive depravity?

We have millions of kids in foster care because they have abusive parents. How a parent, or anyone, can abuse a helpless child is beyond understanding. Domestic abuse of a spouse or partner is often given a slap on the wrist until one of them, usually the woman, is dead.

What is also beyond understanding is that 74 million people who voted for a man so depraved that he thought it was fun to rip babies from their parents’ arms, some never to be seen again, solely because they are brown and speak another language, encouraged by another depraved soulless individual named Stephen Miller. A man so depraved he wanted officers to shoot innocent peaceful protesters simply because they were outside his house, which in reality was their house because they are citizens. A man who said journalists should be executed for criticizing him.

A population that loves guns so much that thousands of deaths are acceptable so they can carry their guns around to threaten people—and some of them to murder people.

A population where many believe LGBTQ have no right to live and should be executed.

A population that believes that women have no rights to their own bodies and must be controlled by ignorant politicians.

I know there is depravity in other countries, but we seem to have more than our fair share here. And instead of trying to lessen it, we have a Republican Party that stokes it and encourages their violence. For people who claim to be so religious, they fail to exhibit even one iota of brotherly love.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. .

Is it because we're a large country that we seem to have excessive depravity?

Nah, twas ever thus. It's just easier to hear about it now.

We have millions of kids in foster care because they have abusive parents.

It's actually less than half a million on any given day, and increasingly, kids are put in foster care because their parents are incarcerated and there's nowhere else to put them, or things like unemployment, leaving kids with an older sibling to work, or other small infraction is treated as a reason to take the kids out of their home.

A population that loves guns so much that thousands of deaths are acceptable so they can carry their guns around to threaten people—and some of them to murder people.

A population where many believe LGBTQ have no right to live and should be executed.

A population that believes that women have no rights to their own bodies and must be controlled by ignorant politicians.

These are all minority opinions in the population.

[twodogsbarking]

14. Pieces of shit. Apologies to shit.

[2naSalit]

18. +1

[gibraltar72]

17. They look pleasant.

[niyad]

22. May they receive everything they deserve.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

29. 2nd that emotion.

Thank goodness the restaurant employee knew enough & cared enough to help this poor child escape a living hell. May that youngster receive help and healing.

[BobTheSubgenius]

24. I hope they each do 200 years.

[Blue Owl]

27. K&R

Heroes among us!

[pnwmom]

28. Was he going to school? If so, did any adult there file any earlier report? n/t