Mom Beat Son With Cables For Using Facebook
An Apopka, Florida mom beat her son with a computer cables after she was notified by a friend that he had posted a cryptic message on his Facebook profile.
An Apopka, Florida mom beat her son with a computer cables after she was notified by a friend that he had posted a cryptic message on his Facebook profile.
Althea Ricketts, 62, received a phone call from a friend last Friday evening, who had stumbled across a disturbing Facebook status update that had been posted by her son. The child’s name and age are being withhheld by police.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, the boy’s status update read as follows: “I broke a glass on purpose and kept a piece to play with it later.”
Allegedly, a neighbor stated that the child has a history of being a cutter, inflicting injuries to himself.
Ricketts,
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