Texas Husband and Wife have two Sons, ages five and eight.
Wife and one Son are members of the Cherokee Indian Nation.
Husband and Wife allegedly chain their five year old Son to his crib-bed overnight, every night.
Husband and Wife are arrested for false imprisonment, child endangerment, child neglect, malicious punishment.
Sons are placed in foster care.
Sons are reportedly frightened of Husband and Wife.
The child welfare agency asks the Texas family court to terminate Husband’s and Wife’s parental rights to Sons.
The court awards Husband and Wife no visitation or timesharing with Sons.
Husband and Wife then request visitation with their younger Son.
A guardian ad litem for Sons recommends against visitation with Husband and Wife’s older Son based on the Son’s expressed preferences, and recommends only therapeutically supervised timesharing with younger Son.
Sons’ maternal grandmother is willing to have Sons placed with her if Husband and Wife’s parental rights are terminated.
Read more in this Austin Daily Herald article: Visitation denied for parents who chained son and this Austin Daily Herald article: Child-chaining parents plead guilty.
