Cop parents admit to handcuffing and JAILING their sobbing toddler to 'discipline' him after he had trouble potty training - as father brands investigation into incident 'insane'
- Body camera footage reportedly shows a Florida police lieutenant bragging about jailing his 3 1/2-year-old son to teach him a lesson
- The boy was jailed for two successive days last October, and was even reportedly handcuffed, after he pooped his pants
- It remains unclear whether Lt. Michael Schoenfeld and his partner, Det. Sgt. Jessica Long, faced any discipline for the incident
Body camera footage obtained by the Daytona Beach News-Journal shows Lt. Michael Schoenbrod saying he was successful in teaching his 3 1/2 year old son a lesson when he and his partner, Det. Sgt. Jessica Long, jailed the boy at the Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department on successive days last October.
Schoenbrod even allegedly admitted to handcuffing the young boy on the second day of his 'discipline.'
'He was crying. I was getting the response I expected from him,' the lieutenant told a Department of Children and Families caseworker, according to the footage from a Volusia County Sheriff's Office deputy and seen by the News-Journal.
He said the boy promised to never again poop his pants following the intervention.
- Daytona Beach Shores Det. Sgt. Jessica Long and Lt. Michael Schoenbrod are accused of jailing and handcuffing their 3 1/2-year-old son for pooping his pants
It remains unclear if the two faced any disciplinary action for the incident
In the body camera footage, the News-Journal reports, Schoenbrod told the caseworker he had put his older child in jail before, but for different reasons, and figured he would use it again on his younger son.
He allegedly said that nearly nine years prior, he disciplined his then four-year-old son after he misbehaved in preschool.
Schoenbrod said he asked the boy whether he had hit a girl, and the boy responded that he did.
'I took him to the jail and he sat there,' Schoenbrod is said to have told the caseworker. 'And I watched him ... and he was crying and everything, and to this day, if you mention like that incident, he's just like, "I would never do it again." It was effective.
'So that's why I did it with this,' Schoenbrod allegedly continued. 'He didn't hit anybody, but I figured the same thing, discipline. And he didn't want to go back, so...'
Later in the nearly hour-long footage, Long could reportedly be heard calling the Department of Children and Families investigation into the matter 'insane,' while Schoenbrod responded: 'It's just disgusting that somebody would drag our family through the m&d like this.'
Schoenbrod's LinkedIn page lists him as an operations lieutenant, and a July 2020 post on the Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety says he was working at the time as a SWAT Team Commander after nearly 20 years on the police force.
Long, meanwhile, is a detective sergeant whose LinkedIn page says she is 'currently assigned to oversee the Criminal Investigations Unit and Background Investigations.'
The July 2020 Facebook post also notes she had been with the department for nine years and was a triple-certified public safety officer.
It remains unclear whether Schoenbrod or Long faced any discipline from city officials.
- The young boy was allegedly jailed at the Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department (pictured) on two successive days last October
A lawsuit against the couple filed by the State Attorney's Office on March 24 has also been sealed, along with any records of the investigation.
The couple are also suing state attorney RJ Larizza in a separate case filed on May 18, but details about the suit are also scarce, with the News-Journal just reporting that they are asking a judge to impose some sort of order against the attorney.
The only sign any action was taken is that they both had 20 hours of unpaid leave on their May paystubs, according to the News-Journal.
'This whole matter just does not pass the basic smell test from a transparency and governmental openness perspective,' Lonnie Groot, a former city attorney wrote to his successor Becky Vose as he tried to get answers, the News-Journal reports.
'I cannot imagine the City Commission tolerating and standing mute about a city employee bringing a child to City Hall and punishing the child in the City Commission chambers,' he continued.
'Why, then, does the City Commission act so meek, powerless and non-transparent as to this matter involving law enforcement officers?'
Michael Barfield, the director of public access initiatives for the Florida Center for Government Accountability, said Tuesday his organization is planning to file a motion seeking hearings on why the records are kept confidential.
Source:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...oddler-discipline-trouble-potty-training.html
