Indiana parents arrested for abuse after zip-tying 10-year-old son, telling sibling to beat him up

An Indiana couple is accused of inflicting "nutritional" neglect connected their 10-year-old son, zip-tying him and covering his caput with a towel truthful helium could not ticker TV and telling his siblings to bushed him up.

Melody Rose Greenwood, 38, and Adam Jon Greenwood, 36, each look preliminary charges for neglect of a dependent.

The maltreatment was uncovered erstwhile the "extremely skinny" kid was taken to Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital for an exam that revealed "nutritional" neglect and kid abuse, Muncie Police said, according to the Muncie Star Press.

The suspected maltreatment was reported to the police.

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Melody Rose Greenwood, 38, was preliminary charged with 3 counts of neglect of a dependent. (Muncie Police)

The Indiana Department of Child Services, which is besides probing the maltreatment allegations, spoke to the victim's 7 siblings, who explained that the 10-year-old was lone fed canned nutrient similar beans, tomatoes and soup, portion everyone other had "normal meals specified arsenic cheeseburgers and accelerated food," the Muncie Star Press reported.

The lad was forced to basal against a partition for up to 12 hours a time with a towel sometimes placed implicit his caput to forestall him from watching TV.

He said his siblings were told to "beat him up" if helium spoke oregon stepped distant from the wall.

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Adam Jon Greenwood, 36, was preliminary charged with 2 counts of neglect of a dependent. (Muncie Police)

The kid besides said his parent had utilized zip ties to restrain him, and the lad reported being successful symptom owed to the zip ties being highly tight. He said his parent had zip-tied his hands down his backmost 1 nighttime portion preparing for furniture and that helium had been instructed to permission them connected for the remainder of the night.

An serviceman said "scars and marks connected his wrists" appeared "consistent with restraints."

Two of the older siblings were allegedly the superior root of acquisition for the different children, and the homeschooling was reportedly constricted to speechmaking 3 chapters of a publication per time portion the parents were astatine work.

The suspects were each released connected bond. (iStock)

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Melody Greenwood was preliminary charged with 3 counts of neglect of a babelike and booked into the Delaware County Jail. She was released connected a $15,000 bond. Adam Jon Greenwood was preliminary charged with 2 counts of neglect of a babelike and was released connected a $10,000 bond.

Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman's bureau volition find whether ceremonial charges volition beryllium filed against the couple.