FOR BUSY MOTHERS, A NEW USE FOR DUCT TAPE

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TEENAGE MOTHER JAILED FOR HELPING BOYFRIEND STICK TODDLER SON TO THE WALL WITH DUCT TAPE
　
Mail Online
September 21, 2010
　
An evil young mother has been jailed for duct taping her toddler son to a wall.
　
Jayla Hamm,18, held her son against the wall while her boyfriend Corde Honea,19, taped his wrists, legs and body.
　
Prosecutors said that Hamm and Honea, from Beatrice, Nebraska, even took pictures of the crying child and taunted him with a bottle that was held just outside of his reach.
　
Shocked friends alerted police who seized the digital camera containing photos of the 22-month-old boy.
　
Police said images showed the toddler visibly distressed and crying while pinned to the wall with the industrial adhesive tape.
　
The strips of duct tape were over his clothes but did not make contact with his skin.
　
Police said the couple taped the child to the wall for their entertainment, not to discipline him.
　
The shocking case follows a viral that swept the internet of another, un-named little girl duck taped to the wall.
　
Judge Paul Korslund sentenced Hamm to 10 days in jail and two years' probation.
　
He told her: 'What makes it shocking in particular is there's an expectation that it's a matter of common sense that a parent would protect her child from humiliation and abuse.'
　
The boy has been placed in state custody.
　
Defence attorney Jeff Davis asked the judge to give Hamm probation based on a pre-sentence investigation saying she had no prior arrests and is unlikely to reoffend.
　
He said: 'A sentence of any jail time ... runs the risk of stopping that progress that's been made between her and her son.'
　
'I think the only person that that punishes is (the child).'
　
The judge allowed her sentence to be served on weekends for the next five weeks so she can continue supervised visits during the week.
　
He told Hamm: 'I think you're going to be a good mom to your son and maybe, with time, you'll be able to help other people who get into these situations.'
　
Honea was last week sentenced to 36 to 60 months in prison for intentional child abuse.
　
He was also jailed for 24 to 60 months for a separate charge of burglary and 12 to 24 months for possession of a stolen firearm.

Those sentences will be served concurrently and he was given credit for 235 days already spent in jail.