A 4-year-old Arkansas girl who was taken into protective custody after being zip-tied to her bed as punishment by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend thought her name was “idiot,” police said.

Jennifer Diane Denen, 30 and Clarence Eugene Reed, 47, were arrested last Friday on suspicion of domestic battery, permitting the abuse of a minor and endangering the welfare of a minor.

Hot Springs police officers responded to Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center after human services workers and center employees examined the girl and determined she had been abused, according to an arrest report.

The Sentinel-Record reported that the child had deep purple bruising on her bottom, lower back and legs along with a black eye, swollen right cheek, a bruise on her forehead, healing scars across her back and dried up blood in the corner of her mouth.

There were also marks on her wrists that indicated she had been restrained somehow. The girl also looked malnourished, according to the paper.

When authorities asked the girl her name, she responded, “idiot,” according to the police report. Police questioned a juvenile at the girl’s home and the person told police that she was commonly referred to as “idiot.”

Hot Springs police spokesman Cpl. Kirk Zaner told The Washington Post that there were a total of six children who lived at the house. Another 11-month-old was also with protective services and four other siblings were with their biological father.

Denen and Reed were both at the hospital when police arrived and were taken to the station for questioning. Denen told police that she saw Reed strike the child with a plastic baseball bat and another juvenile told authorities that both Denen and Reed had zip-tied the girl to a chair.

Denen admitted that she failed to seek immediate care for the child and that Reed referred to the girl as “idiot,” according to The Sentinel-Record.

Reed told police that he did refer to the child as “idiot,” but insisted it was only a joke.

The paper reported that the pair were being held on $500,000 bond and are set to appear in Garland County District Court on Aug. 23.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/18/4-year-old-arkansas-girl-found-abused-told-police-her-name-was-idiot.html

There's a special place in hell for people like this. I hope the convicts in jail give these two a very warm welcome!

If the Buttholes had tied each other to the Beds with Plastic ties and called each other idiot,it might have been a Joke!
But doing that to a defenseless Child is way beyond the Pale!

That really is the least of the accusations. The child has been beat, bruised, mentally abused among many other things.

OP i wonder if obama had anything to do with this

This article when I read it on the news, just made me cry. This poor little girl, must not have had any compassion or love in her young sweet life. The mental and physical affects she has endured. I cried for what she has yet to endure to find recovery and be able to accept love or to be able to trust. I still just cry thinking about it. I only hope and pray she can love and trust one day.

I don't mind the law handling this. Do you realize what happens to these a$$holes in prison? A constant a$$ beating.

That is just so sick. I mean really sick. What kind of a mind could do that to a defenceless child? That poor child is going to need years of therapy, love and kindness to overcome what she has been put through. When the parents are convicted I hope they put them in with the general population of the jail and not segregate them. The parents also need some kind of mental evaluation and treatment because they are definitely sick!