Dad Imprisoned For Extensive Abuse On Children

December 1. 2009

Terrence Eames

Today, a 53-year-old dad, Terrence Eames, was sentenced to five years in prison, for abusing his children over the course of several years.

The abuse includes, but is not limited to, "Repeatedly tormenting his two sons and two daughters over a 13-year period leading up 2000. He dangled one of his sons, then five, over a staircase by his ankles as punishment for interrupting him while he was watching a Formula One race on television. Two years later Eames, 53, burned the son's hand by pinning it to a scalding-hot radiator. He kept all his children locked in their bedrooms for hours at a time, forcing the boys to urinate into a box, the court heard."

There is a difference between discipline and abuse. Parents need to be very careful not to cross that line. The damage it does to a child's psyche is terrible and at times long lasting. There are adults who sustained terrible abuse as children and it effects them to this day, in their relationships and friendships. Such childhood abuse often turns into serious anger management problems in adulthood and dysfunction.

Yes, parents have their problems too, but they should be very careful not to take it out on their children. Kids don't deserve that. Learn to put your problems in proper perspective. Being a parent does not give you the license to treat your children any old way you please.

Mr. Eames needs to seek God's forgiveness, change his ways and find a way to peacefully rebuild his relationship with his children. The family needs healing and restoration from years of trauma and abuse.

'Jekyll and Hyde' father who tortured four children for 13 years gained sadistic pleasure from their suffering

Last updated at 7:30 PM on 01st December 2009 - Terrence Eames has been sentenced to five years' jail for the torture and abuse of his children and former wife between 1987 and 2000

A father who brutally tormented his four children and kept them prisoners in their own home was jailed for five years today.

Terrence Eames subjected his young victims to 'appalling' sustained physical and psychological abuse for more than a decade, getting sadistic satisfaction from their suffering, a court heard.

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