Mother pleads guilty to tying up her 2 young sons so she could sleep better

An Orange County mother pleaded guilty Friday to beating, starving and tying up her two young sons so  she could sleep better at night.

According to the Orange County district attorney's office, Cheryl Ann Stuart, 26, of Santa Ana and her boyfriend, Mario Alberto Colin, 31, pleaded to two felony counts of child abuse and one felony count of corporal injury on a child.

Police alleged that Stuart had tied her sons, ages 2 and 5, to their crib and bed with ace bandages and shoelaces so "she could sleep well" and not worry about them running around.

Prosecutors said that Stuart and Colin were sentenced to 270 days in jail and three years of formal probation for the June incident.

-- Shelby Grad

 

Comments

[Astonished]

Part of that sentence should have involved sterilization for both of them!

[username111]

She is going to do how much of the 270's days for a felony? I bet she get the kids back.... look down the road in 20 years these kids will be in jail. Parents like that don't recover they just keep abusing one way or another.

[Reddbeard]

That's it ? 270 days...why not 270 days tied up in ace bandages and shoelaces ?

[planetnymph]

I don't see a problem with this. Mind you, I don't have children but I can understand the need for sleep. I don't know how you women with children do it. I am unwilling to sacrifice my life in this way.

[David]

I only hope they took the kids away from them so they don't kill them after they serve the twenty days of their 270-day sentence.

[Rich]

This is really going to hurt Cheryl Ann Stuart's chances at winning mother of the year.

[vitriolic]

Both of these people should have parenting classes in prison and be made to experience what it was like 4 the children....the children inevitably will feel it is their fault because now there is no mother, the children will need counseling also.

[Inkspots]

270 DAYS for repeated, violent child abuse against two children? And will the happy family be reunited when the leave of absence ends? It will take those children a lot longer than that to recover from their psychological wounds. Are children's lives particularly cheap in Orange County?

[Luffs]

Only 270 days? Who is this idiot of a judge? Whoever it is, he/she should be pulled off the bench, tied up with ace bandages to a crib, beaten and starved. As far as the mother and boyfriend...I say put them in jail for 20 years at a minimum.

[sailbyme]

270 days? I hope they tied them to their cells. Scumbags.

[AKV]

They should give her the same treatment while she's incarcerated.

[Adrian_Dallas]

All I know is that I'll sleep much better knowing those monsters are safely behind bars, even if it is only a 270-day nap.

[L]

I have compassion when I read stories like this. I hate that as a society we don't have a cheap economic outlet for family members to take a day off from the realities of parenting so such parents can do chores, or go and get good sleep. If this couple had such an outlet perhaps the children and similar children like this would not have to suffer so much. Prayers for the family.

[Reality Chick]

I hope the kids aren't going to be waiting for her to come home after the 270 days are up.

[Jane]

They need to rip her overies out while they're at it so she can't produce more kids that she'll end up abusing too!! I hope they take these two little kids away from her forever and find them a good home. People like this woman make me sick. Don't have kids if you can't handle them!!!

[Jane]

@planetnymph--I'm glad there are people like you who decide not to have children because you know you won't be able to handle it, that is very unselfish of you. Although it concerns me that you didn't see a problem with what these people did. These kids were abused! If they would have done that to the family dog they would have been given a 25 year sentence rather than a nice little 270 day vacation with free lodging, food and entertainment; oh and time away from the kids!