Richard Collins Charged with Chaining Runaway Son to Car Bumper

• I think children should get into trouble if they act up. The dad was just trying to protect his son. Every kid does stupid things but they also have to pay the price. If grounding don't work or taking things away then u gotta do something before the child gets to much to handle or does something stupid.

• I guess my Tough Love of my then 16yr was child abuse! I couldn't handle him and i was tired of the drugs and crap in my house. I took his clothes and put them on the walkway. I took his house key away. And i gave him the phone. Told him to call someone or call the cops. He call the cops. When they got there, i told them what i was doing. And they told my son to pick up his stuff and get walking or he would be arrested for trespassing. I was so sad. I cried for days not knowing where he was. But i did find him. Now he tells me that was the best thing i could ever do for him. he stayed with some friends. he went back to school and graduated. And we now have a much better relationship. I have noticed that his 13 yr is starting to try and back him into a wall. But not happening. He's to strong of a person for me tough loving him, that he will be able to handle what his kid is hashing out. and what this dad did is NOT child abuse. but he may have gone the wrong way to do it. I would have had him put into the prison program where wanna be gangers are sent. They stay for 24 hours with a group of prisoners who were gangers. At least here they have the program. they do 5 kids at a time. and they are on a block of 5 guys. so it's one on one The kids sleep in 2 cells and the cons sleep in the other 5 cells. I have seen some amazing turn arounds come out of there. My nephew was one of them.

• That is a gud example of what I would do to my kid. I would probably go one step farther tho. I would get on of thos hard metal chairs and make him sit on it longer than 30 min. I would then take him to a local juvie hall with permission of course and let som of them talk to him about what they have been thru and seen. U would be surprised at who would actually talk to a young child I would also take him to a prison with permission again of course and have him go thru the booking process and sit in a cell for a little while and talk to the inmates that would be willing to talk to him. My parents did it to me and it scared the poo poo out of me. I was left alone with inmates at least they was nice. I was 16 when they did that to me and that was just telling them I wanted to quit school and get my GED. I finished school needless to say.

• That is crazy! This should not be considered child abuse! When I was 5, my dad poured gasoline on me. When mom and her lawyer told the judge, the judge said it wasn't abuse unless he lit a match near me!!! Now that's abuse, loose chains to keep a bratty child from running away isn't abuse! The dad should have reversed the locks on the door instead though! ha

• Maybe the dad was not only trying to keep his son safe but trying to keep society safe from his son. A parent who lets their child run with gangs deserves a child endangerment charge more than a dad who cares enough to restrain his child in an attempt to keep him from them. I really think in this case DHS got in the way and just sent a strong message to that delinquent teen that he's the one with the power. The bumper didn't endanger him or injure him. I feel really quite sorry for that father and the uncle. It's a case that will have a chilling effect on parental discipline of out of control teenagers. Maybe if those kids who killed Kim Cates were chained to a Camaro bumper, she'd still be alive.

• My kids called the police and reported me for child abuse. The cop came out, found no marks on the kids, and when the kids told him they wanted to go to juvenile hall (they knew what was going to happen to them after the cop left) the cop laughed his ass off at them and basically told them to go to hell. When the cop left I told them that if they wanted me to go to jail, then they needed to know what jail was like. I confined them to their rooms for a week with no tv or phone use, and fed them stale bologna sandwiches and little cartons of orange juice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For a week straight. Needless to say they never called the cops again.

• What the father did is less than what would happen to him in jail. Its funny that a father can be arrested, yet once the kid ends up in jail it's alright for the guards to mistreat the kids. No wonder they are never reformed. When I was a kid if I got the belt on my behind I learned, as I got older, I wanted the belt as my Dad was a lecturer, and as you can imagine, teenagers can't take the talking, just give me the belt and lets move on. Parents need to discipline their children in the manner they choose. To have some third party call police because a mother or father is spanking their child is just wrong. We have become a nation that places more importance on what someone wrote in a book rather than just getting out of our everyday life.

• No that is in no way Child Abuse. Unfortunately children/adolescents can call 911 and the Parents are Guilty until proven innocent. I remember my Identical Twin boys coming home from 2nd grade in 1988 and telling me they were told at School they could report me for Child Abuse for spanking them. The next time I disciplined them I took the phone and announced to them "Go ahead call 911 to report me, I will get 3 hots and a cot and you will get put into Foster Care" needless to say no one called 911 and my sons have turned out to be great sons that love and respect their Mother.

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