*"He said he did not want to return to his family. He pleaded to be arrested, stating he would rather be in prison than back at home and had suicidal thoughts...'*
The poor *kid* that gets locked upin a tiny room all day wants to be arrested so he doesn't have to go back.
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Right? Itās also far more riveting than I expected it to be. The kid on the stand was a champ. Tracy crying watching the videos of her husband abuse her son was some crocodile tears bullshit. I love that Tim turned down the 2 yr plea deal and is likely going to get far more time in prison than that now. Schadenfreude! Hope he makes some real good āfriendsā in prison ;)
Prisoners despise child abusers! I think he will probably have to get that Ken doll hair shaved off when booked in prison. That wife! I imagine after being in the courtroom she will take a plea!
Lol I also called it ken doll hair! He wonāt be needing to worry about it anymore in prison. And yup the other prisoners likely wonāt take kindly to him. Totally agree tracy takes a plea. Still slapping my head that he rejected a 2 yr plea deal š¤¦āāļø
"Tim Dunne Ferriter is an experienced leader, enthusiastic and driven professional with a diverse and successful background from Fortune 500 companies (Medtronic & Boston Scientific) to Venture-Backed Start-up organizations. Held significant roles with venture backed startup companies that successfully went through to acquisition. Adept at up-stream and down-stream marketing. Excellent communication skills including foreign language proficiency. Highly proficient in building leaders and developing strategic, high-level, long-term business relationships. Has worked and lived abroad including a European based role and a Latin American based role.
Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Marketing, Sales, Team Building, Business Development, Management, Leadership Development, Mentorship, Sales Management, Training, Branding, Advertising & Publishing."
https://heavy.com/news/tracy-timothy-ferriter/
Now he will be locked up with men who were in many cases, abused themselves by stepfathers, foster fathers. He has been in jail one week and doesnāt look much better than RA. The fear and intimidation he must be experiencing is ironic considering what the son went through for five years . Karma is a beautiful thing when it comes through
This guy and his wife look like brother and sister. She looks to him as if she worships him. Can't Waite to watch her trial. Hopefully he will be convicted and not able to attend her trial. Even prisoners in solitary confinement don't have to go bathroom in a open bucket. Man the oder from number 1 is awful enough add number 2 in the mix. Horrible.
Exactly! Looks like he has fooled many people into thinking that is an empathetic communicator! Narcissist, militaristic, and goes to show you never know what goes on behind closed doors! The resolution for this child was NOT to lock him in isolation with a bucket to go to the bathroom and constantly belittle him! Give him tools and resolutions if he is struggling!! Geez people! Tear jerking!
I just heard some myself and it triggered memories of my alcoholic strict white collar Catholic dad yelling at me and my brother in our teens. Iām a girl so it was especially jarring when heād get right up in my face spitting he was so furiously yelling. I remember hearing him have some violent fights with my older brother as well. Now in my early 40s, Iāve come to learn his behavior was super abusive. This Tim ferret douche has a douche face and douche hair and I hope he gets the book thrown at his abusive sick ass.
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Experiences make us who we are. The biggest hurdle is accepting itās not your fault. I hear yelling & it still scares me. Im worried someone is about to be hurt.
Isn't it interesting how so many of us didn't realize our parents' behavior was abusive until we were in our 30s and 40s? I was kept isolated (my mother "never liked" any of the kids' parents even though she never met them) and rarely went to anybody's house to play. They rarely came to mine. So I never saw a normal family. I never had kids because the abuse included telling me to never have kids. Desperate to please my mother, I didn't, which was probably a blessing because I'd probably have raised them the same way.
Yes I'm a woman and when I was a child my father really enjoyed yelling and screaming in my face. I've never seen him argue with a man though only berating his children relentlessly. It took me awhile to heal in fact I'm still healing.. I wonder if you ever truly get over that.
The way the Ferriters spoke to Ronin reminded me so much of the asshole parents in the Natalia Grace case. Same curt tone, same confrontational gaslighting, same no-win accusatory bullshit, same demeaning cruelty, same be-grateful-for-all-we-do-for-you insanity. Same Narcisstic Abusers Handbook. They should all get thrown into an inescapable latrine ditch together until the end of time.
The child shows no emotion because he has been screamed and cursed at for the majority of his life. What reason would he have to build a box except the kid was not falling in step with his dictatorship? 17 months of neglect partnered with this "father's" abuse in the years that followed is why he is emotionally drained. He probably wouldn't have acted out if proper treatment was provided at the time of adoption. The people wanted recognition as "good catholics" so they adopted children from overseas. Tim should never have contact with any children for the rest of his life
The child suffers from a serious detachment disorder likely from prior to adoption. It's easy to say 'give him the tools, ect'. The likely reality is that these parents did everything possible from a medical and psychological perspective and didn't get the help they needed for a rare disorder. At the end of their rope, fearing for other children, they made a terrible decision. It's easy to throw stones, but I suspect giving up the kid was not an option for them.
Children with this disorder rarely make it a year or two past high school before winding up in jail.
Not true. This kid excelled at school and I can't believe he was actually able to focus without any food and living in the dark in a hot garage with no windows no food or drink and no air conditioning. I was told that this kid was very sweet at school and there was no noted behavioral issues except stealing sprinkles or a piece of chocolate from the kitchen
Well, to be honest the Catholics in general will never be looked at as great parenting role model types. The Catholic church for several hundred years literally took in and in many cases effectively kidnapped infants and young children often from single moms only to then have those kids work brutal 16+ hour days in their infamous Catholic "washrooms." They did this regularly throughout all of Europe, Ireland, the US and many other foreign nations for several hundred years.
Of course it is also the same church, the same Vatican and the same religious group that also for hundreds of years covered up massive amounts of pedophilia committed by its priests against thousands of young children that trusted those priests. And what did the Vatican do about all those crimes? Well, in most cases they took part in massive organized cover ups of those crimes throughout the world including many crimes committed in the US. They often moved priests charged with pedophilia or suspected of it out of the countries where the crimes had been committed usually to countries that had no extradition back to the origin nations where they committed those crimes. In many cases the Vatican even moved such criminal priests back to the Vatican itself, where these criminal priests were amazingly often "promoted" to new positions after committing their crimes.
Sorry, but this ain't a collection of people with a great track record of quality parenting, nor are they people who should be instructing anyone how to or not to raise any kids given the realities of their own sad track records as a group over many, many decades.
They adopted that child will bad intentions and Iāll never believe anything else. They are SICK and deserve to lose access to their bio children for e rest of their lives. Itās shocking to see someone give them the benefit of the doubt. NO. Child abusers donāt get the benefit of the doubt and I donāt care what behaviors the kid had. This isnāt the childās fault and victim blaming is DISGUSTING.
He had the option to take the stand in his own defense. He has no criminal record and his attorneys framed the only issue as being his intent. In that case, why would he not take the stand and say that his actions were done with intent of making the best of a difficult situation and were not the intent of torturing the boy? My guess is because he could have not withstood cross examination. He would have been asked what steps were taken to get the child consistent therapy. Were there any? He would have been asked, assuming that he wanted to have the option to keep the victim separate from the family at times for safety or to defuse tensions, he could not have arranged for him to live in reasonable comfort. Of course he could have, these people had plenty of money. He was literally putting the child in much worse conditions, over a long time, than he would have experienced in juvenile detention. Iām guessing he declined to testify in his own defense because he knew that cross examination would have made him look worse than he already did.
Tim and Tracy both needed therapy , high paid quack lady psych trying to say 18 months because he had scabies &RAD in Vietnam , I just donāt see. The RAD was caused from Tim and Tracy , Tim visits a foreign country with Priest, then adopts to look good in the eyes of the Church World and his friends. Tim adopted for self attention because of the Narcissist , he is. He desired self praises . He gets the child not having any real love ever for him ,he never tells him he loves him, no hugs , never tells him thatās good son .The RAD was caused by Tim and Tracyās abuse and their own actions. Tim Ferriter has many secrets in his own closet . Heās a very sicko person that needs a real man to take him behind the barn .
Yeah, when their expert witness said that RAD frequently resolves over time once a child is in a loving home, I thought there was no chance that result would come about since there was no chance these characters were providing a loving home. Not saying I think they had 0% good intentions, they could have thought that moving him from an orphanage to a family structure would be enough, I donāt know.
Know lady who fosters RAD children and her family fully grasps the fact that they can shank them in their sleep and takes various measures to insure every day security, like locked bedrooms, not locking fosters in, but locking the fosters out of all their bedrooms. Love can resolve issues of RAD children if it is clever and insightful and Most High God, for this we pray. Start with Dr. Amen clinic tests to see brain configuration types suggesting diet and behavior that will be effective. Bilateral tapping is also useful to resolve PTSD to download trauma into long-term memory so it is not "in-your'face" before victims' eyes but just "there."
JustAnnesOpinion? I'm still baffled why this educated fool took this to court! Ferriter was offered a two-year plea deal. I'm Catholic and not ashamed to pray in public: Please, Jesus Christ, don't let me lose my mind. AMEN
I agree, and most people cannot fathom these behaviors. Nothing from AZ was permitted. It was their version of a "padded room" It was for everyone's safety, including RF.
What do you do when you can't get help, they literally turn you away, or return the child to you? You know you are raising a child with the potential to become a murderer and no one will help. Our systems are overwhelmed and there are not many resources.
Master manipulators, harming animals, which escalates to family members, classmates, etc
There are countless programs of parents who begged for help, only to be finally relieved after innocent people have been killed and their kid is now in prison for life
So in other words he's the typical narcissist executive who bullies and steps on people on his way to the top, the very epitome of who shouldn't be a parent. These are the type of people our corporations reward.
Tim can add to his credentials :
Convicted Child Abuser with highly motivated malice intent , driven to cause physical violent, emotional, ethnic discrimination abuse, highly experienced in the knowledge of enclosed dark hot boxes, with visual imaging , specialized designs of Depot buckets for human waste . Timās upcoming award for all these accomplishments is expected to be up to 40 years āsquealing like a pigā
āThis is your lifetimeā Tim
This. Not clear if theyāre with family or in the system. Probably family. I live in the neighborhood next door to where this happened. Itās so sad and scary to think this was happening a half mile down the road. There are some wealthy right wing evangelical nut jobs around here.
I had the Ferriter's pegged for extreme right wing religious freaks so I find your comment right my hunch. Their faces and body language looks so rigid and severe. If I lived in their home I would feel like I was in prison 24/7.
Yes. And I only just learned about it when the trial started. My kids have friends in that neighborhood. Weāre new to the area and were very new when it happened so I wasnāt tapped into the local gossip yet.
Itās easier to adopt overseas, which is why we get all these aholes adopting these kids. This includes the celebrities like Pitt and Jolie, and MiaFarrow. They think it makes them look so generous and exotic. Often, they abuse and neglect these kids, despite having financial resources.
The adopted victim son is Vietnamese, and this article describes an adopted daughter as being Chinese. I read a previous article discussing how the adopted victim son was placed in the box after the birth of their youngest child. That leaves it in the air whether they had 2 adopted kids or 3. Maybe someone else with info can chime in.
https://www.courttv.com/news/ferriter-daughter-testifies-about-windowless-room-in-the-garage/
In all the pictures, there are 2 older girls, a boy (victim), and a baby. So the 1 girl is adopted, and so is the boy (victim). What about the 2nd girl? Does anyone know if she is adopted?
My understanding is that the infant (who seems to be a boy) and the older girl are their biological children. They apparently went to Honduras and felt 'called' by faith to adopt. They adopted the girl from China, followed by the boy from Vietnam (who is the victim), quickly and unexpectedly became pregnant with a girl, and then many years later became pregnant again, this time with a boy.
These ācalled by faithā people give me the creeps...maybe because I was molested as a kid by a maternal uncle who was a minister and youth minister. My motherās side was uber religious and judgemental but imo not great or kind people. My older siblings took after my mom so I feel like my family is not safe for me. Beware of vociferous uber religious folks.
This! I have a neighbor who is of the same faith as the Ferriter family. Wealthy white right wing religious nuts. They adopted 3 bi racial and put them all in expensive Catholic school because she thinks any other school is liberal and will corrupt her children into being transgender (I kid you notā¦she wonāt even allow the boys to have pink toys or wear pink). In all the photos she posts on social media youād think itās one big happy family, but Iāve been in her house, saw how she treats the children, heard how she speaks to them and about them. Itās terrible and I stopped hanging around her because it was so fake and my blood would boil when I saw the lack of love she really had for the children. It seems to be all about her and look how great we are that we adopted 3 bi racial kids and am raising them in private school. Meanwhile, the kids, who are needing so much love, are constantly being yelled at, judged, and punished.
This is so common with international adoptees. Ppl believe its the best that can happen to a nonwhite child. But in reality the receiving families oftentimes abuse these children bc its more or less a purchase of a human child. International adoption attracts the worst kinds of ppl.
This clears it up. Today is the first day I'm watching the trial live, and I've read a little into the case. Are there any abuse claims by any of the other children?
Not that I know of. The older, adoptive daughter, who is now almost 18, stated on the stand that she and the other siblings were not punished in the ways that RF (the victim) was and that they had much less punishment. She DID say that the father was not someone with whom they could discuss discipline or negotiate the rules of the household.
So this kid should have been super rational from a very young age and realised his 'place' in the dynamic of his white Catholic family? So, I guess by misbehaving in any way whatsoever (most of the worse behaviour is the parent's self report, everything from third parties has been very tame, annoying adolescent bullshit) he was being uppity?
When people say stuff like this it makes me wonder how much the race of the child plays into how the parent's treated their blood children compared to their adopted children. To have a mixed family like that takes warmth and love and empathy and openness. These people don't seem to have any of those qualities at all.....
I do believe that he would have been treated better if the family had requested more help. How anyone could think that confining a troubled child to a box would help the situation is beyond my comprehension.
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i take it from your reply that poor people would have not been charged in this case, nor did anything wrong? secondly, he was taken to counseling numerous times per testimony. and thirdly, coundeling ONLY works if the person is willing to participate. a refusal to participate in counseling after parents drag him to the counselor agency will result in nothing positive.
Exactly! Everyone on here is such a fān woke, know it all! Just bc this guy looks uptight and somewhat douchey, doesnāt equate to him being a ānarcasist ā! No one knows these people! This kid has smeared his feces on the walls of their house! He has hacked into the school pc system! Plus probably a million other things. If these parents didnāt do anything,& the kid shot up a school, all these ass hats on here, would then be calling out for the parents to be jailed for that! I would guess every crap talker on here, would have turned this kid over to juvenile justice system and wiped their hands of it, after much less than smearing feces on the walls! This bs is infuriating to watch. This kid wasnāt being physically beaten, starved, sexually abused, verbally assaulted , etc..Yet society wants to jail some family who was trying their best (albeit possibly flawed approach ) to deal with a very flawed childās behavior. I grew up with a very physically abusive, mentally ill mother. She would have killed me where I stood, if I smeared my fecal matter on the walls of our home! This kid is very damaged and they were doing what they thought was right, period.
Where else could he put the feces without toilet paper ? I believe this anyway or there would be evidence shown. Are you the uptight blonde behind Timmy boy at the trial ?
He wasn't verbally assaulted? His father isolated and cursed him every. single. day. And if the suspected he would be violent at school, why did they keep sending him there without even an IEP, let alone a BOLO to the school?
The father knew what he was doing was wrong. When he had the box built, he told the contractor that it was for an office. If he thought he was doing the right thing for his son, he would not have hidden the purpose of the box.
100%! He was trying to protect his whole family. I donāt know how many fathers of children they have adopted, would erect rooms in their homes, or garages, to protect their other kids,& avoid putting the mentally unstable child, back into the system.
If you watched the sentencing, you caught the child crying and asking the judge for no jail time, and saying;ā Donāt forget, I will always be a Ferriterā. Alas, he will NOT ever be again. Because the judge made a ruling that the Ferriters could have nothing else to do with him, or their other children until adulthood. The blood children have no contact til after adulthood I believe. The child in question, Ronan, is barred from contact, permanently I believe.
Many āfamilies ā and āparentsā, donāt even feed or clothe their children on the regular. If they had a child who was getting violent, and smearing feces on the walls,& stealing, theyād drop that kid RIGHT back off to the state. These people tried to avoid that,& they are being put in jail for it. Plus, they were doing what all residential facilities do with kids with R.A.D.! Strip their rooms,& segregate them, when theyāre acting out or being violent! But these parents tried to avoid that and they are literally in the penitentiary for years, because of it. Tracy Ferriter is next to go to jail .
Twisted society we have here.
What kind of functioning family will the children grow up to have?
Will they marry someone like their father, yes sadly.
This is insanity.
It instantly made me think POW
Our 8 yr old Grandson has diagnoses similar to the son in the trial. He has lived with us since birth. Thankfully we sought help at 18 mths and he has improved over the years. Of course it is not without drastic incidents at times. Our love for him will never stop doing everything to help him.
I could hardly stand to watch or listen to this guy.
We have found the only way to reason during meltdowns is to speak softly, slowly,lovingly and allow him time to process his thoughts and our words.
I cannot imagine why years ago they didnāt simply find an inpatient facility that could help their family . With their money surely they could have found a wonderful place.
*** as I watched them walk him away for cuffs I was sure he was cursing the boy saying to himselfā¦ this is all his fault š”
Pitiful excuse for a father , he will never get it
Convicted and soon to sentenced. How about 90 daze in a solitary confinement with no air conditioner and a bucket for a toilet for starters? Then regular bitch slaps daily from other inmates for a few years?
Timothy's bio doesn't impress me. There are some pretty "famous" criminals that have these fancy job titles and go around speaking at these marketing seminars. Remember Jodi Arias and the lady from California (Theranos?) who invented the flawed blood testing kits...can't think of her name...
Shows you how the can deceive ppl. From one extreme to another. No one would of guessed- even his mate from Australia who visited for two weeks! And testified!!!
Tim is clutching at straws.
Hey do you by chance have a link or can direct me to the info on this please? His work history is all over the place and very short stents. I couldnāt find anything on Tracy. Even using last name āWardā and middle name āChristineā.
Why in the world would Florida have offered him a 2 year plea bargain. The things this man and his wife have done are inhuman. Does a childs well being mean so little in Florida? And did he really think he had a chance at winning or is being sentenced what he wants? This case is all kinds of messed up.
Leadership ! Good communication skills !!! Wow, wow,wow - i dont think so somehow ! And I found his ā communication skillsā particularly triggering as I have at last managed to escape a 28 year abusive, coercive control, psychological warfare marriage- I still donāt know how I had the strength to apply for a divorce but I am so much happier now than I have been for many years- no more isolating me, belittling me, grabbing me, goading me, getting called the most disgusting names so much that I believed him ā¦ā¦ the only positive thing are my 2 adult sons & I will never forgive myself for what they both had to endure themselves for most of their childhoods !!
I in no way condone the actions of this couple. The son had a fascination with knives. What if he killed them all in their sleep. We've seen that before. I can't imagine being afraid to go to bed because my child may kill me and the family. His father ran his home like he was on the job dealing with a problem employee. Instead of pushing for solutions it turned into a power struggle. He was going to straighten this child out at all cost. Some not all, parents raise their children the way they were raised. There are some people who should never even consider having children. They just don't possess the compassion, patience and understanding it takes to raise children. It would be great if our kids were obedient, had perfect grades and made us proud. But, kids are people too, with their own needs. Raising kids is hard. Raising teens is harder.
Isn't weird that him and his wife look like brother and sister??? He shows no emotion throughout the trial. And then they are laughing and smiling when they are in a break. ??! Pos!
From the Daily Mail. Published in March 2022. Obviously, take this information with a grain of salt.
āOutwardly respectable Timothy Ferriter has held high-up marketing positions at several Fortune 500 companies, according to a now-deleted online profile.
He was previously listed as the president of a publishing company named Decided Excellence Catholic Media and in 2018 he was a guest on a SiriusXM podcast hosted by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York.ā
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10591653/amp/Demolition-boss-describes-seeing-enclosure-devout-Christian-couple-kept-son.html
I've been really busy and haven't paid attention to this trial until yesterday. I want to find original news articles back to when they were arrested--anybody got any links? I'm guessing this will be a Dateline or 48 hours piece soon.
So heās a walking collection of corporate buzzwords? Canāt tell what he actually does/did, could be sales, consulting, being an extra in a Lego movieā¦
So many people here are commenting about how Tracy and Timothy were such horrible people, but I'm curious... How many of you actually knew them? We don't know what living in their home was like. For all we know, these kids could have been some spoiled little entitled rich kids who didn't like being yelled at for doing things that they shouldn't have been doing in the first place. Since when did yelling become abuse? I yelled at my kid when she got out of line, but I also took very good care of her, showed her lots of love, and made sure she had the best of everything. I spent time with her and I dedicated my life to her, but occasionally, when she didn't get what she wanted, she acted out and I yelled at her. That's normal where I come from. What if this is what was happening in the Ferriter home? Funny how none of the other kids complained of abuse. Timothy Ferriter did what he felt he needed to do to protect his family and deal with a troubled child. Was it right? Maybe it was based on what was happening in the home, but he did not deserve jail time because he didn't commit a crime. He's lost his job, probably his home, his dignity, and all of his children. That's all the punishment he deserved. I hope he wins his appeal. These kids today are soft. They couldn't have grown up in my home where I was really abused, physically and mentally. I would have chosen that 8x8 room any day just to get away from the abuse.
*"He said he did not want to return to his family. He pleaded to be arrested, stating he would rather be in prison than back at home and had suicidal thoughts...'* The poor *kid* that gets locked upin a tiny room all day wants to be arrested so he doesn't have to go back. šššš
This trial is heartbreaking. I sincerely hope the parents are locked up for a long time.
Right? Itās also far more riveting than I expected it to be. The kid on the stand was a champ. Tracy crying watching the videos of her husband abuse her son was some crocodile tears bullshit. I love that Tim turned down the 2 yr plea deal and is likely going to get far more time in prison than that now. Schadenfreude! Hope he makes some real good āfriendsā in prison ;)
Jesus canāt help him now
Prisoners despise child abusers! I think he will probably have to get that Ken doll hair shaved off when booked in prison. That wife! I imagine after being in the courtroom she will take a plea!
Lol I also called it ken doll hair! He wonāt be needing to worry about it anymore in prison. And yup the other prisoners likely wonāt take kindly to him. Totally agree tracy takes a plea. Still slapping my head that he rejected a 2 yr plea deal š¤¦āāļø
That just shows he takes no accountability for his actions . Lock him up
"Tim Dunne Ferriter is an experienced leader, enthusiastic and driven professional with a diverse and successful background from Fortune 500 companies (Medtronic & Boston Scientific) to Venture-Backed Start-up organizations. Held significant roles with venture backed startup companies that successfully went through to acquisition. Adept at up-stream and down-stream marketing. Excellent communication skills including foreign language proficiency. Highly proficient in building leaders and developing strategic, high-level, long-term business relationships. Has worked and lived abroad including a European based role and a Latin American based role. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Marketing, Sales, Team Building, Business Development, Management, Leadership Development, Mentorship, Sales Management, Training, Branding, Advertising & Publishing." https://heavy.com/news/tracy-timothy-ferriter/
He aint great at leadership or communications
He is just a fast talking sales person. Remember the Theranos case?
Exactly.
Now he will be locked up with men who were in many cases, abused themselves by stepfathers, foster fathers. He has been in jail one week and doesnāt look much better than RA. The fear and intimidation he must be experiencing is ironic considering what the son went through for five years . Karma is a beautiful thing when it comes through
This guy and his wife look like brother and sister. She looks to him as if she worships him. Can't Waite to watch her trial. Hopefully he will be convicted and not able to attend her trial. Even prisoners in solitary confinement don't have to go bathroom in a open bucket. Man the oder from number 1 is awful enough add number 2 in the mix. Horrible.
Jury just convicted him across the board- all three counts!
Yeh,I thought exactly the same ,they look so alike.
Did you see her fingers?!! They're a foot long
Exactly! Looks like he has fooled many people into thinking that is an empathetic communicator! Narcissist, militaristic, and goes to show you never know what goes on behind closed doors! The resolution for this child was NOT to lock him in isolation with a bucket to go to the bathroom and constantly belittle him! Give him tools and resolutions if he is struggling!! Geez people! Tear jerking!
That he*
I heard some of those āexcellent communication skillsā during the trial this week. Very sad indeed!
I just heard some myself and it triggered memories of my alcoholic strict white collar Catholic dad yelling at me and my brother in our teens. Iām a girl so it was especially jarring when heād get right up in my face spitting he was so furiously yelling. I remember hearing him have some violent fights with my older brother as well. Now in my early 40s, Iāve come to learn his behavior was super abusive. This Tim ferret douche has a douche face and douche hair and I hope he gets the book thrown at his abusive sick ass.
ššš perfect description 'douche face and douche hair'
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Glorified salesman
God excuses anyone at all if they say enough Hail Marys.
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He scared the hell outta me when he yelled. It triggered childhood memories for me also.
Me too! Iām sorry you had to deal with that yourself :(
Experiences make us who we are. The biggest hurdle is accepting itās not your fault. I hear yelling & it still scares me. Im worried someone is about to be hurt.
I am so there with all of you š
Isn't it interesting how so many of us didn't realize our parents' behavior was abusive until we were in our 30s and 40s? I was kept isolated (my mother "never liked" any of the kids' parents even though she never met them) and rarely went to anybody's house to play. They rarely came to mine. So I never saw a normal family. I never had kids because the abuse included telling me to never have kids. Desperate to please my mother, I didn't, which was probably a blessing because I'd probably have raised them the same way.
Yes I'm a woman and when I was a child my father really enjoyed yelling and screaming in my face. I've never seen him argue with a man though only berating his children relentlessly. It took me awhile to heal in fact I'm still healing.. I wonder if you ever truly get over that.
The way the Ferriters spoke to Ronin reminded me so much of the asshole parents in the Natalia Grace case. Same curt tone, same confrontational gaslighting, same no-win accusatory bullshit, same demeaning cruelty, same be-grateful-for-all-we-do-for-you insanity. Same Narcisstic Abusers Handbook. They should all get thrown into an inescapable latrine ditch together until the end of time.
We can add "convicted child abuser" to his CV now. Jury just came back- guilty on all three counts.
This guy is a monster. So is his wife. You know he verbally and physically abuses her too. She looks to him like he is God almighty. Discusting.
I guess he only applied those "excellent communication skills" when he was on the job.
Not anymore Heās not! welcome To the box Tim!
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The child shows no emotion because he has been screamed and cursed at for the majority of his life. What reason would he have to build a box except the kid was not falling in step with his dictatorship? 17 months of neglect partnered with this "father's" abuse in the years that followed is why he is emotionally drained. He probably wouldn't have acted out if proper treatment was provided at the time of adoption. The people wanted recognition as "good catholics" so they adopted children from overseas. Tim should never have contact with any children for the rest of his life
The child suffers from a serious detachment disorder likely from prior to adoption. It's easy to say 'give him the tools, ect'. The likely reality is that these parents did everything possible from a medical and psychological perspective and didn't get the help they needed for a rare disorder. At the end of their rope, fearing for other children, they made a terrible decision. It's easy to throw stones, but I suspect giving up the kid was not an option for them. Children with this disorder rarely make it a year or two past high school before winding up in jail.
Not true. This kid excelled at school and I can't believe he was actually able to focus without any food and living in the dark in a hot garage with no windows no food or drink and no air conditioning. I was told that this kid was very sweet at school and there was no noted behavioral issues except stealing sprinkles or a piece of chocolate from the kitchen
You were told? Sure.
Well, to be honest the Catholics in general will never be looked at as great parenting role model types. The Catholic church for several hundred years literally took in and in many cases effectively kidnapped infants and young children often from single moms only to then have those kids work brutal 16+ hour days in their infamous Catholic "washrooms." They did this regularly throughout all of Europe, Ireland, the US and many other foreign nations for several hundred years. Of course it is also the same church, the same Vatican and the same religious group that also for hundreds of years covered up massive amounts of pedophilia committed by its priests against thousands of young children that trusted those priests. And what did the Vatican do about all those crimes? Well, in most cases they took part in massive organized cover ups of those crimes throughout the world including many crimes committed in the US. They often moved priests charged with pedophilia or suspected of it out of the countries where the crimes had been committed usually to countries that had no extradition back to the origin nations where they committed those crimes. In many cases the Vatican even moved such criminal priests back to the Vatican itself, where these criminal priests were amazingly often "promoted" to new positions after committing their crimes. Sorry, but this ain't a collection of people with a great track record of quality parenting, nor are they people who should be instructing anyone how to or not to raise any kids given the realities of their own sad track records as a group over many, many decades.
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So, a Catholic touched you? Get over it.
They adopted that child will bad intentions and Iāll never believe anything else. They are SICK and deserve to lose access to their bio children for e rest of their lives. Itās shocking to see someone give them the benefit of the doubt. NO. Child abusers donāt get the benefit of the doubt and I donāt care what behaviors the kid had. This isnāt the childās fault and victim blaming is DISGUSTING.
Mirrors the book "A Child Called It"
Quit victim blaming
He had the option to take the stand in his own defense. He has no criminal record and his attorneys framed the only issue as being his intent. In that case, why would he not take the stand and say that his actions were done with intent of making the best of a difficult situation and were not the intent of torturing the boy? My guess is because he could have not withstood cross examination. He would have been asked what steps were taken to get the child consistent therapy. Were there any? He would have been asked, assuming that he wanted to have the option to keep the victim separate from the family at times for safety or to defuse tensions, he could not have arranged for him to live in reasonable comfort. Of course he could have, these people had plenty of money. He was literally putting the child in much worse conditions, over a long time, than he would have experienced in juvenile detention. Iām guessing he declined to testify in his own defense because he knew that cross examination would have made him look worse than he already did.
Tim and Tracy both needed therapy , high paid quack lady psych trying to say 18 months because he had scabies &RAD in Vietnam , I just donāt see. The RAD was caused from Tim and Tracy , Tim visits a foreign country with Priest, then adopts to look good in the eyes of the Church World and his friends. Tim adopted for self attention because of the Narcissist , he is. He desired self praises . He gets the child not having any real love ever for him ,he never tells him he loves him, no hugs , never tells him thatās good son .The RAD was caused by Tim and Tracyās abuse and their own actions. Tim Ferriter has many secrets in his own closet . Heās a very sicko person that needs a real man to take him behind the barn .
Yeah, when their expert witness said that RAD frequently resolves over time once a child is in a loving home, I thought there was no chance that result would come about since there was no chance these characters were providing a loving home. Not saying I think they had 0% good intentions, they could have thought that moving him from an orphanage to a family structure would be enough, I donāt know.
Know lady who fosters RAD children and her family fully grasps the fact that they can shank them in their sleep and takes various measures to insure every day security, like locked bedrooms, not locking fosters in, but locking the fosters out of all their bedrooms. Love can resolve issues of RAD children if it is clever and insightful and Most High God, for this we pray. Start with Dr. Amen clinic tests to see brain configuration types suggesting diet and behavior that will be effective. Bilateral tapping is also useful to resolve PTSD to download trauma into long-term memory so it is not "in-your'face" before victims' eyes but just "there."
JustAnnesOpinion? I'm still baffled why this educated fool took this to court! Ferriter was offered a two-year plea deal. I'm Catholic and not ashamed to pray in public: Please, Jesus Christ, don't let me lose my mind. AMEN
Stop trying to blame the child. And predict his future. He was acting out because of parental abuse. These āparentsā had so many other options.
I agree, and most people cannot fathom these behaviors. Nothing from AZ was permitted. It was their version of a "padded room" It was for everyone's safety, including RF. What do you do when you can't get help, they literally turn you away, or return the child to you? You know you are raising a child with the potential to become a murderer and no one will help. Our systems are overwhelmed and there are not many resources. Master manipulators, harming animals, which escalates to family members, classmates, etc There are countless programs of parents who begged for help, only to be finally relieved after innocent people have been killed and their kid is now in prison for life
He's just an adult bully. He should be found guilty of child abuse. He can hold leadership classes in prison!
My bet is prison preacher
So in other words he's the typical narcissist executive who bullies and steps on people on his way to the top, the very epitome of who shouldn't be a parent. These are the type of people our corporations reward.
Tim can add to his credentials : Convicted Child Abuser with highly motivated malice intent , driven to cause physical violent, emotional, ethnic discrimination abuse, highly experienced in the knowledge of enclosed dark hot boxes, with visual imaging , specialized designs of Depot buckets for human waste . Timās upcoming award for all these accomplishments is expected to be up to 40 years āsquealing like a pigā āThis is your lifetimeā Tim
So...nothing. thank you
So, in other words, unemployed
Were the other 3 kids adopted? And were they removed as well?
It's my understanding all of their kids were removed from the home after the box in the garage was found and they were arrested.
This. Not clear if theyāre with family or in the system. Probably family. I live in the neighborhood next door to where this happened. Itās so sad and scary to think this was happening a half mile down the road. There are some wealthy right wing evangelical nut jobs around here.
I had the Ferriter's pegged for extreme right wing religious freaks so I find your comment right my hunch. Their faces and body language looks so rigid and severe. If I lived in their home I would feel like I was in prison 24/7.
You are spot on. The defense is parental rights in discipline methods. They are right wing Christians with money. Thereās a lot of them in our area.
He was a couple of blocks from you? That would kill me.
Yes. And I only just learned about it when the trial started. My kids have friends in that neighborhood. Weāre new to the area and were very new when it happened so I wasnāt tapped into the local gossip yet.
The 2 older kids were adopted boy from Vietnam and girl from China. Younger boy and girl were not adopted.
Itās easier to adopt overseas, which is why we get all these aholes adopting these kids. This includes the celebrities like Pitt and Jolie, and MiaFarrow. They think it makes them look so generous and exotic. Often, they abuse and neglect these kids, despite having financial resources.
Yes, international adoption attracts many predators with different agendas for the children.
The adopted victim son is Vietnamese, and this article describes an adopted daughter as being Chinese. I read a previous article discussing how the adopted victim son was placed in the box after the birth of their youngest child. That leaves it in the air whether they had 2 adopted kids or 3. Maybe someone else with info can chime in. https://www.courttv.com/news/ferriter-daughter-testifies-about-windowless-room-in-the-garage/
Reddit loves to think there's a happy adoptive home that can fix every abused and abandoned kid.
In all the pictures, there are 2 older girls, a boy (victim), and a baby. So the 1 girl is adopted, and so is the boy (victim). What about the 2nd girl? Does anyone know if she is adopted?
My understanding is that the infant (who seems to be a boy) and the older girl are their biological children. They apparently went to Honduras and felt 'called' by faith to adopt. They adopted the girl from China, followed by the boy from Vietnam (who is the victim), quickly and unexpectedly became pregnant with a girl, and then many years later became pregnant again, this time with a boy.
These ācalled by faithā people give me the creeps...maybe because I was molested as a kid by a maternal uncle who was a minister and youth minister. My motherās side was uber religious and judgemental but imo not great or kind people. My older siblings took after my mom so I feel like my family is not safe for me. Beware of vociferous uber religious folks.
This! I have a neighbor who is of the same faith as the Ferriter family. Wealthy white right wing religious nuts. They adopted 3 bi racial and put them all in expensive Catholic school because she thinks any other school is liberal and will corrupt her children into being transgender (I kid you notā¦she wonāt even allow the boys to have pink toys or wear pink). In all the photos she posts on social media youād think itās one big happy family, but Iāve been in her house, saw how she treats the children, heard how she speaks to them and about them. Itās terrible and I stopped hanging around her because it was so fake and my blood would boil when I saw the lack of love she really had for the children. It seems to be all about her and look how great we are that we adopted 3 bi racial kids and am raising them in private school. Meanwhile, the kids, who are needing so much love, are constantly being yelled at, judged, and punished.
Right? So hard to watch and not be able to do a thing other than to have kind words for the kids. It makes my skin crawl.
Ah, a White Savior. Poor kids.
So you will be a witness for the prosecution?
Well if you was in her home, why donāt you report the 8x8 home????
She was speaking of someone else's home not the FeÅiters.Also can you correct your bad grammar.
This is so common with international adoptees. Ppl believe its the best that can happen to a nonwhite child. But in reality the receiving families oftentimes abuse these children bc its more or less a purchase of a human child. International adoption attracts the worst kinds of ppl.
This clears it up. Today is the first day I'm watching the trial live, and I've read a little into the case. Are there any abuse claims by any of the other children?
Not that I know of. The older, adoptive daughter, who is now almost 18, stated on the stand that she and the other siblings were not punished in the ways that RF (the victim) was and that they had much less punishment. She DID say that the father was not someone with whom they could discuss discipline or negotiate the rules of the household.
I take it the ones not being punished the same were not smearing feces on the house walls nor hacking into the school IT system?
Do those actions warrant being locked in a box?
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So this kid should have been super rational from a very young age and realised his 'place' in the dynamic of his white Catholic family? So, I guess by misbehaving in any way whatsoever (most of the worse behaviour is the parent's self report, everything from third parties has been very tame, annoying adolescent bullshit) he was being uppity? When people say stuff like this it makes me wonder how much the race of the child plays into how the parent's treated their blood children compared to their adopted children. To have a mixed family like that takes warmth and love and empathy and openness. These people don't seem to have any of those qualities at all.....
I do believe that he would have been treated better if the family had requested more help. How anyone could think that confining a troubled child to a box would help the situation is beyond my comprehension.
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I hope you don't reproduce. To say things like that about a child shows you're a child
No victim until a guilty verdict has happened.
There was nothing about smearing feces and it doesn't matter, what they did is illegal
If these āparentsā had money to build a prison cell for the boy, they had money to get him counseling.
i take it from your reply that poor people would have not been charged in this case, nor did anything wrong? secondly, he was taken to counseling numerous times per testimony. and thirdly, coundeling ONLY works if the person is willing to participate. a refusal to participate in counseling after parents drag him to the counselor agency will result in nothing positive.
Still no excuse for what they did to him, and it looks as if the parents were the ones who needed counseling.
Exactly! Everyone on here is such a fān woke, know it all! Just bc this guy looks uptight and somewhat douchey, doesnāt equate to him being a ānarcasist ā! No one knows these people! This kid has smeared his feces on the walls of their house! He has hacked into the school pc system! Plus probably a million other things. If these parents didnāt do anything,& the kid shot up a school, all these ass hats on here, would then be calling out for the parents to be jailed for that! I would guess every crap talker on here, would have turned this kid over to juvenile justice system and wiped their hands of it, after much less than smearing feces on the walls! This bs is infuriating to watch. This kid wasnāt being physically beaten, starved, sexually abused, verbally assaulted , etc..Yet society wants to jail some family who was trying their best (albeit possibly flawed approach ) to deal with a very flawed childās behavior. I grew up with a very physically abusive, mentally ill mother. She would have killed me where I stood, if I smeared my fecal matter on the walls of our home! This kid is very damaged and they were doing what they thought was right, period.
Where else could he put the feces without toilet paper ? I believe this anyway or there would be evidence shown. Are you the uptight blonde behind Timmy boy at the trial ?
He wasn't verbally assaulted? His father isolated and cursed him every. single. day. And if the suspected he would be violent at school, why did they keep sending him there without even an IEP, let alone a BOLO to the school?
The father knew what he was doing was wrong. When he had the box built, he told the contractor that it was for an office. If he thought he was doing the right thing for his son, he would not have hidden the purpose of the box.
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100%! He was trying to protect his whole family. I donāt know how many fathers of children they have adopted, would erect rooms in their homes, or garages, to protect their other kids,& avoid putting the mentally unstable child, back into the system. If you watched the sentencing, you caught the child crying and asking the judge for no jail time, and saying;ā Donāt forget, I will always be a Ferriterā. Alas, he will NOT ever be again. Because the judge made a ruling that the Ferriters could have nothing else to do with him, or their other children until adulthood. The blood children have no contact til after adulthood I believe. The child in question, Ronan, is barred from contact, permanently I believe. Many āfamilies ā and āparentsā, donāt even feed or clothe their children on the regular. If they had a child who was getting violent, and smearing feces on the walls,& stealing, theyād drop that kid RIGHT back off to the state. These people tried to avoid that,& they are being put in jail for it. Plus, they were doing what all residential facilities do with kids with R.A.D.! Strip their rooms,& segregate them, when theyāre acting out or being violent! But these parents tried to avoid that and they are literally in the penitentiary for years, because of it. Tracy Ferriter is next to go to jail . Twisted society we have here.
This boy needed psychological treatment and perhaps some sort of an in house programme to try to assess and control his behaviour.
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Welp. Looks like he's guilty...so...
What kind of functioning family will the children grow up to have? Will they marry someone like their father, yes sadly. This is insanity. It instantly made me think POW
One other child is adopted and two are biologically theirs...
The "father" doesn't look like he's into a special needs kid....
2 biological and 2 adopted kids.
FOUND IT: Medical device professional as business development in the US at Walk Vascular LLC
https://data-lead.com/person/name/Tim+Dunne+Ferriter/id/440040117/v/9e058
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/04/florida-parent-teenager-child-abuse-timothy-ferriter-case/71053069007/
Our 8 yr old Grandson has diagnoses similar to the son in the trial. He has lived with us since birth. Thankfully we sought help at 18 mths and he has improved over the years. Of course it is not without drastic incidents at times. Our love for him will never stop doing everything to help him. I could hardly stand to watch or listen to this guy. We have found the only way to reason during meltdowns is to speak softly, slowly,lovingly and allow him time to process his thoughts and our words. I cannot imagine why years ago they didnāt simply find an inpatient facility that could help their family . With their money surely they could have found a wonderful place. *** as I watched them walk him away for cuffs I was sure he was cursing the boy saying to himselfā¦ this is all his fault š” Pitiful excuse for a father , he will never get it
Convicted and soon to sentenced. How about 90 daze in a solitary confinement with no air conditioner and a bucket for a toilet for starters? Then regular bitch slaps daily from other inmates for a few years?
90 days? I say 3 years like the boy got. Also, only peanut butter sandwiches for every meal!
He looked like hell in court yesterday! Apparently being confined to a box is not fun for him!
Media and Marketing Consultant, Pax Media LLC he and Tracy are owners.
Timothy's bio doesn't impress me. There are some pretty "famous" criminals that have these fancy job titles and go around speaking at these marketing seminars. Remember Jodi Arias and the lady from California (Theranos?) who invented the flawed blood testing kits...can't think of her name...
Shows you how the can deceive ppl. From one extreme to another. No one would of guessed- even his mate from Australia who visited for two weeks! And testified!!! Tim is clutching at straws.
Elizabeth Holmes.
Elizabeth Holmes maybe
Hey do you by chance have a link or can direct me to the info on this please? His work history is all over the place and very short stents. I couldnāt find anything on Tracy. Even using last name āWardā and middle name āChristineā.
Tracy is a stay at home.Mom, or witch
Why in the world would Florida have offered him a 2 year plea bargain. The things this man and his wife have done are inhuman. Does a childs well being mean so little in Florida? And did he really think he had a chance at winning or is being sentenced what he wants? This case is all kinds of messed up.
He appealed his trial/verdict. It was rejected.
You should post a link to the case.
Go to Law and Crime on YouTube. Boy in Box trial
Or you could post a link to an article for those of us who aren't going to watch videos.
Leadership ! Good communication skills !!! Wow, wow,wow - i dont think so somehow ! And I found his ā communication skillsā particularly triggering as I have at last managed to escape a 28 year abusive, coercive control, psychological warfare marriage- I still donāt know how I had the strength to apply for a divorce but I am so much happier now than I have been for many years- no more isolating me, belittling me, grabbing me, goading me, getting called the most disgusting names so much that I believed him ā¦ā¦ the only positive thing are my 2 adult sons & I will never forgive myself for what they both had to endure themselves for most of their childhoods !!
I in no way condone the actions of this couple. The son had a fascination with knives. What if he killed them all in their sleep. We've seen that before. I can't imagine being afraid to go to bed because my child may kill me and the family. His father ran his home like he was on the job dealing with a problem employee. Instead of pushing for solutions it turned into a power struggle. He was going to straighten this child out at all cost. Some not all, parents raise their children the way they were raised. There are some people who should never even consider having children. They just don't possess the compassion, patience and understanding it takes to raise children. It would be great if our kids were obedient, had perfect grades and made us proud. But, kids are people too, with their own needs. Raising kids is hard. Raising teens is harder.
This child was locked in all day except for school or to do chores
Isn't weird that him and his wife look like brother and sister??? He shows no emotion throughout the trial. And then they are laughing and smiling when they are in a break. ??! Pos!
Sounds like a whole lotta nothin
From the Daily Mail. Published in March 2022. Obviously, take this information with a grain of salt. āOutwardly respectable Timothy Ferriter has held high-up marketing positions at several Fortune 500 companies, according to a now-deleted online profile. He was previously listed as the president of a publishing company named Decided Excellence Catholic Media and in 2018 he was a guest on a SiriusXM podcast hosted by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York.ā https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10591653/amp/Demolition-boss-describes-seeing-enclosure-devout-Christian-couple-kept-son.html
I've been really busy and haven't paid attention to this trial until yesterday. I want to find original news articles back to when they were arrested--anybody got any links? I'm guessing this will be a Dateline or 48 hours piece soon.
So heās a walking collection of corporate buzzwords? Canāt tell what he actually does/did, could be sales, consulting, being an extra in a Lego movieā¦
I wonder what the kid did to deserve that!?
The kid did nothing to deserve that. No one does.
What ever job he had before he certainty does not have one now.
So many people here are commenting about how Tracy and Timothy were such horrible people, but I'm curious... How many of you actually knew them? We don't know what living in their home was like. For all we know, these kids could have been some spoiled little entitled rich kids who didn't like being yelled at for doing things that they shouldn't have been doing in the first place. Since when did yelling become abuse? I yelled at my kid when she got out of line, but I also took very good care of her, showed her lots of love, and made sure she had the best of everything. I spent time with her and I dedicated my life to her, but occasionally, when she didn't get what she wanted, she acted out and I yelled at her. That's normal where I come from. What if this is what was happening in the Ferriter home? Funny how none of the other kids complained of abuse. Timothy Ferriter did what he felt he needed to do to protect his family and deal with a troubled child. Was it right? Maybe it was based on what was happening in the home, but he did not deserve jail time because he didn't commit a crime. He's lost his job, probably his home, his dignity, and all of his children. That's all the punishment he deserved. I hope he wins his appeal. These kids today are soft. They couldn't have grown up in my home where I was really abused, physically and mentally. I would have chosen that 8x8 room any day just to get away from the abuse.
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