Couple arrested after 36-pound ten-year-old son found searching for food: Police
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A Georgia couple was arrested after police say their ten-year-old son, who weighed just 36 pounds, was found badly emaciated walking to the grocery store.
Tyler and Krista Schindley have been charged with attempted homicide in the second degree and attempted malice murder, according to WANF. They also face charges of cruelty to children in the first degree, second degree, and third degree, battery, simple battery, and false imprisonment.
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Police said they received calls from concerned residents in the Atlanta suburb of Griffin, Georgia, who reported a boy wandering the neighborhood. Officers said they immediately noticed he was “thin with discolored skin and visible injuries.” The boy reportedly told police he had escaped his home, was hungry, and asked them to “please not make” him go back.
He was rushed to the hospital to be treated for malnutrition and a low heart rate.
Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Marie Broder called the starvation case one of the worst she has seen.
“As a mother, I can’t comprehend it. As a human being, it breaks your heart,” Broder said, per Fox 5 Atlanta.
“We aren’t releasing any photos of this child for obvious reasons, but I will tell you, the photos are absolutely horrible, and anybody with a human heart, who looks at them, should be shaken to their core.”
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Police said their investigation into this case is ongoing, but the couple’s four other children are in the custody of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services.