Miami, United States.
A waitress at a restaurant Orlando (Central Florida) probably saved the life of an 11-year-old victim of torture and abuse in getting the minor, at the table with his pairs, He responded with secret signals that he needed help, a local media reported on Thursday.
The events took place on January 1 last year restaurant Mrs. Potato, When two adults and two minors sat at a table and one waitress, Flavine Carvalho, He went to take their order and noticed that the boy had multiple bruises and bruises on his arms and face.
After checking that the father was not ordering any food for the boy, he looked at the visible ones blue and to see in the child a timid attitude, was that the woman decided not to stand idly by.
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Carvalho wrote a note that said “DO YOU NEED HELP? OK” help?, OK) and showed it to the child while he was standing behind the man so he couldn’t secure it.
The boy refused with a signal, perhaps frightened, but continued to stare at the woman, so Carvalho he asked again without needing help with another note, and this time the boy nodded, picked up the June News channel.
This was reported very nervously by the woman, in a five-minute conversation, to the police officer who answered her call to the line of emergency 911 and that he decided to send a patrol to the restaurant to investigate the case.
In an interview with the detectives of the Orlando PoliceThe boy reported incidents of abuse and torture by his parents, such as being strapped to his ankles and neck and hanging upside down from a door.
They also handcuffed him, hit him with a broom and tied him to a rolling platform.
The child’s parents, Timothy Wilson and Kristen Swann, Were arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse and child neglect.
“To say abuse is to say something light, it was a torture what this child has gone through,” said the detective of the Police Erin Lawler“And the child had all kinds of bruises at different stages, it was not an isolated incident. There was continued abuse and torture.”
the Orlando Police he praised the courage shown by Carvalho and the care towards a child he did not know. “We’re proud that someone like her lives and works in our community,” she said.
Authorities said the two children were removed from their parents’ custody and are currently “very well and very happy.”
Multiple cases of child abuse and torture have shocked Florida. One of the most notorious has been the death in 2011 of an adopted girl and the torture of her twin brother.