Couple Arrested After Beaten 6-Year-Old Found Unconscious in Motel Toilet
A Florida couple is facing gruesome child abuse charges after their 6-year-old son was found unconscious with his head in a motel toilet bowl earlier this month, officials said.
The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to a Kissimmee motel after receiving reports that a child was in severe distress at the location and that his head was in a toilet, according to Local 10.
Arriving officers discovered Larry Rhodes, 22, holding the unconscious tot with badly swollen eyes and found that he had no pulse.
The boy was rushed to a local hospital where doctors discovered severe brain bleeding and placed him on life support. He remains in critical condition.
Deputies also found five other children with signs of physical abuse at the hellish scene, including burns, scars, black eyes, bleeding and extensive bruising.
Rhodes, 22, and his girlfriend, Bianca Blaise, 25, were both arrested and slapped with child abuse charges.
In interviews, the couple claimed that the various injuries were sustained during fights between the siblings.
Blaise told police that she arrived at the room to find the 6-year-old’s head in the toilet and that he appeared to be drinking out of the bowl.
She said she later realized that he was unconscious.
The couple had been staying at the Knights Inn since April.
They insisted to police that they never hit their children — but their 4-year-old told investigators that “daddy hit me.”
Rhodes and Blaise said they disciplined their kids only by having them stand in the corner of the motel room and perform exercises.
Both were held on $15,000 bond after their initial court appearance.
Blaise eventually posted bail and has been released.
Original Article: Florida couple arrested for beaten 6-year-old found in motel toilet (nypost.com)
Take those kids away from them and find them a decent home please.
Why was the mother released? I bet it was from a liberal judge. I am a firm believer, if you have to beat the elderly, animals, or children just need to be shot in the head. Why do we have to pay for their keep in prisons. Luckily the prison inmates take the justice in their hands and both of them will not survive long. This angers me beyond belief
Why was the mother released? I bet it was from a liberal judge. I am a firm believer, if you have to beat the elderly, animals, or children just need to be shot in the head. Why do we have to pay for their keep in prisons. Luckily the prison inmates take the justice in their hands and both of them will not survive long. This angers me beyond belief and know when I get ready to post my comment, this site says I already have posted this of which I never have.
I agree with you, Army Vet. Before they are released on bail, they both should be sterilized!!
Yes cut it off at the neck on that vicious subhuman.
25 years old and… FIVE kids?!? If they’ve been at motel since April, where were they before that and what condition was that home? 5 KIDS?!? It’s fairly obvious, at least with the knowledge we have here, that they’ve been using kids as playthings & punching bags. How has no ones seen this & reported it? SICK sub-humans… almost turns me pro abortion – for THEM not the kids!
What a moronic judge. He only placed a $15,000 bond on them I would have placed a $100,000 bond, pending the results of the poor child that is battling for his life and if he does survive will probably have brain damage.
I would have denied bond. Bail Bonds are NOT an inalienable right, and CAN be denied if the crime is so severe that bonding out would be inappropriate. These two are a continuing threat to the safety and well-being of their children. The courts have been too lax with their bonds for the past few years and the skyrocketing crime rate proves that.
I would be happy to throw “ the switch “ on both of these animals
Right Andy I agree. Or. Or just take both of them out to the desert and give them each a bullet between the eyes & leave them to rott
Both of them need to be in prison for life without parole on a diet of bread and water 5 days a week and no special privileges whatsoever. And every Saturday starts off with getting beaten while they are tied to a toilet bowl for approximately 1 hour and left without medical attention for a minimum of 8 hours. Am I an Asshole for being so mean. You are damn right I am when it comes to hurting children.
Too sad to read about. I think we need to bring back stocks where they stay in the public square to be openly punished by the public
I have to doubt these two would survive .
If they vote Democrat, they will be set free, all charges dropped. Thanks to liberal judges.
Shame on television an the news not reporting n this Horror,and the Judge who let them out on bail.
What the hell us wrong with the this sick evil demented judge to give these low life scums $15,000 bail? I hope they get years behind bars and the inmates put them out of their ugly cowardly minds. Get that fool judge off the bench now.
Horrific. Why only $15,000 bail?
Is this somehow of national significance?
Anybody actually believe she will show up in court? This will be the end of it unless and until she gets arrested someplace else. ,,,, I just hope it’s in state because with only a 15k bond (That she could buy for 1500 bucks) I doubt that the county would go pick the bitch up out of state.
….Maybe if we stuck the judge’s head in a toilet for just a few minutes they would get the message that beating and killing kids is NOT something you treat a DUI. What is with this joker judge. We have a 6 year old on life support that may never see 7, and if he does it looks like there was irreversible brain damage,,,,and for 15 hun the animals that WILLINGLY did it walk?
If I had my way nieth4er of these 2 bacteria would ever see the outside again….and if the 6 year old dies and they can catch them after letting them go on bond, I may just get my wish.
My prayers go out to the boy. This whole mess in God’s hands now.
6 children with a couple aged 22 and 25? When will the abortion haters step up and take care of these unwanted children? When will the abortion haters actually help those who were so unlucky as to be born to sadistic, insane, violent scum? This is a despicable case, and I’ll bet most of those children are starving as well. Time for society to start sterilizing worthless scum like these two.
Wow…what a limited thinker you are. These children are wanted by many who cannot have their own and would be adopted if made available. It is not our place to exterminate life unless we are nazis or communists (or democrats?). With proper parenting, how many potetially great minds anhave been lost because they were not convenient. Remember, money is not the root of all evil, it is just one part of the true root which is self centerness. I have known some women that have had abortions and they were all soory as they matured. On the other hand, too bad some of the mothers of these pro abortion “ladies???” didn’t be;ieve in abortion. Abortion is all about me first and $$$$$$$.
If that child lives he will be brain dead. Better that he not survive. Both those sub humans should be put away for life. Better yet doesn’t Florida have the death penalty?