{"id":37229,"date":"2015-10-01T18:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=37229"},"modified":"2015-10-01T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:30:03","slug":"lehigh-acres-mom-ties-up-child-threatens-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/10\/lehigh-acres-mom-ties-up-child-threatens-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Mom Ties Up Child, Threatens Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News-Press is reporting:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37230\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-37230 \" title=\"Andrea McFarland\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Andrea-McFarland-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Andrea-McFarland-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Andrea-McFarland.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea McFarland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A\u00a0Lehigh Acres\u00a0mom has been arrested on charges of child neglect after she texted out photos of her son tied-up arm and leg and threatened\u00a0suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea McFarland, 26,\u00a0of Lehigh Acres, was found in a darkened, rear bedroom at a Southwest Fifth Street\u00a0address with her son by\u00a0Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office\u00a0deputies after\u00a0family members reported\u00a0McFarland\u00a0texted out photos of her son, bound with packing tape on his wrists and ankles and covering his mouth. \u00a0Deputies\u00a0had to force their way into the home.<\/p>\n<p>When found the son was not bound with tape.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Family members also showed deputies texts from McFarland giving them several hours to get her son or she was going to put him up\u00a0for adoption. She texted family members &#8220;&#8230; he is not safe around me and I am going to\u00a0seek help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A search of the home found tape matching that seen in the photo of McFarland&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Florida Department of Children and Families\u00a0made an emergency response and placed the son in the care of a family member. McFarland was Baker Acted, a state law that allows someone to be placed in involuntary mental health observation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News-Press is reporting: A\u00a0Lehigh Acres\u00a0mom has been arrested on charges of child neglect after she texted out photos of her son tied-up arm and leg and threatened\u00a0suicide. Andrea McFarland, 26,\u00a0of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}