Couple Tie Up 6 Year Old, Leave Him In Hot Car While They Dine At Cracker Barrel

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Investigators found a crying 6-year-old boy tied up in a sweltering car at a suburban restaurant after employees reported seeing a man take the child outside and return without him to finish eating.

Police believe the boy, whose name was not released, was tied up for about 30 minutes while the outside temperature was in the 80s Saturday in Ringgold, Ga., about 13 miles southeast of Chattanooga, Sgt. John Gass said Tuesday.

"He was sitting up in between the two front seats and he was crying," Gass said. "He had a rope tied to one of his ankles. The child was just sweating, just soaking."

The boy's mother, Rachel Gilchrist, 35, and her companion, Raymond Minchew, 61, both of Sandy Springs, Ga., were arrested Saturday and charged with cruelty to children and concealing a weapon. Police found a handgun in the car.

Gilchrist remained in custody Tuesday at the jail in Catoosa County, Ga. Minchew was released Monday on $5,000 bail.

The couple contended the boy had misbehaved, although witnesses at the Cracker Barrel restaurant disagreed, Gass said.

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Not only could he have suffocated from the heat in the car, he could have shot himself. Poor kid.

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Oh yeah - eating at Cracker Barrel. Gotcha.

Not saying I've never had visions of tying up my own children in the car whist "trying" to dine, however thoughts and actions are two entirely different things.

I wouldn't do that to my dog.

Nevermind.

I never said anything.

Not a word...

What goes on in BNL's room, stays in BNL's room.

Geeez...

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Chicken Pot Pies.

Disgraceful.

I mean, it's Cracker Barrel after all. You gotta be armed in that place. And Shoney's.

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Now it's a Lone Star, not only their name, but their rating.

As for the idiots in the original story - the mother should lose custody of that child, permanently.

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As if that's a legitimate reason for this. :banghead:

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