Boy finally taken from abusive parents after a decade of people telling authorities it was happening

This story is both disheartening and sickening, so be warned.

It took a decade for a boy to be freed from his abusive parents after people had been calling the child abuse tip line for a decade. The parents are finally facing the charges they deserve, but this kid will most likely never recover. Think about it, this kid will most likely end up in the broken foster care program, which never prepares kids for the outside world. He will then most likely end up maladjusted and constantly be in some sort of trouble.

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Here are the stats:

25 percent of foster kids attempt suicide.

81 percent of young men become incarcerated.

71 percent of young women end up pregnant before 21, with half of those kids ending up in the foster care system.

40 percent of all of these kids end up homeless within a year and a half of aging out.

97 percent end up in chronic poverty.

This is what this kid will most likely end up dealing with.

What Happened

Here, via KARK TV, is what happened.

https://www.kark.com/crime/arkansas-couple-facing-112-counts-of-false-imprisonment/

Records from the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office show that 42-year-old Jaclyn Barnett and 40-year-old Daniel Wright were arrested Wednesday afternoon.

Court records show that police in Mountain Home were called to an apartment complex after someone reported cries for help in an apartment on Saturday, Nov. 2.

According to court records, the officer said a child could be heard saying they were trapped inside a bathroom and could not get out.

Court records say that the officer found the child naked inside the bathroom. The child said he was put inside the bathroom the night before by his mother, according to court records. Court records also stated that the child told police he was only let out of the bathroom to go to school.

Court records cited that dozens of hotline cases of maltreatment opened since 2013 involving the child.

Court records stated that the victim referred to Barnett as his mother and Wright as his stepfather.

Barnett is currently being held at the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office on a $50,000 bond. Wright has since been released.

Here, via Ozarks First, is what the cops said.

https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/we-all-failed-him-mountain-home-police-discuss-abuse-investigation/

“[Our sergeant] was escorted by the children to the back room, into the bathroom area, in the master bedroom. In the master bedroom, they found a ratchet strap that was attached to a bedpost, that was attached to the bathroom door where [the child] could not get out. The sergeant talked to the child behind the door, eventually let him out, and he discovered the child was in there with no clothes, and in fact, the child didn’t want to come out because he was embarrassed, because he was had no clothes,” said Investigator Mike Day. “He hadn’t eaten. He was hungry. That investigation led to him telling us that is a regular occurrence, that he is his only let out to go to school.”

“I went to the apartment. I saw the kids, and saw what was going on. I immediately got on the phone with the Department of Human Services, let them know what was going on. My first intention was how do we how do we get this kid some help,” said Day. “We discovered that there had been multiple calls regarding this child. I spoke to the neighbors who called this in. In my book, they’re heroes. These two people are heroes, no doubt about it. Without them calling, who knows? I mean, it’s just going to keep going on, you know?”

Upon hearing about the numerous calls already placed, OzarksFirst asked about that process, and if there was any reason this alleged abuse couldn’t have been caught before.

Day said it’s possible when DHS made visits, it gave Wright and Barnett a chance to cover up any potential abuse, portraying their home life as anything other than what police discovered.

“If [DHS is] going out to the home, they’re going out to the house where the parents are there and they can control that environment. They can control that setting, they can control that scene and it’s going to look like,” Day said. “So naturally to anyone on the outside looking in, they’d be like, ‘oh, yeah, these are just kids being kids. He’s just lying. He’s continuously lying.’ We were able to debunk that and discover this and save this kid.”

“We know with the child stating in his forensic interview that he was held in this bathroom with no lights, no food every night, but he’s let out to go to school. So that being he was let out and he’s put back, then he’s let out and he’s put back. Where [the prosecutor] came up with the number, just to start is ‘let’s go back to January. Let’s find out how many days of school he was actually in school’. So that’s how we did it based on those numbers, to come up with a number as he was in school from January up until the time he was located, 112 times this year.”

Day said the teen is in his sophomore year at Mountain Home High School.

“I’ll tell you, if you saw him, you’d think he was about nine. He’s got some learning disabilities and he’s very small for his age, but super intelligent, super disposition for someone that has been put through this man, that kid has a smile ear to ear, almost just so thankful,” Day said.

Day said he’s aware there will be public backlash due to the amount of time that had passed before the alleged abuse was discovered.

“The only thing I’d like to say is that, you know, there’s going to be a lot of public scrutiny, a lot of public outcry, and justifiably so. The folks that I worked with involving this case with DHS, the local advocacy center here, everyone was very infuriated with this. I don’t want to put all the blame on DHS in no means because they’ve been, they’ve been very helpful since all this started on November 2nd,” Day said. “I’m trying to look on the brighter side that that something like this will help people or get people to you to just stop, take a deep breath and listen to these kids when they’re telling you things. In is case, there were so many cases or so many cases that were opened on him, that every time it was found to be unfounded, and that’s no fault of anybody’s. It took something like this and it took those heroes that lived downstairs. They’re unbelievable. They’re awesome, and I can’t thank them enough.”

There are no words for the horrifying reality of this.

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