A man who went to pick up a child last week at a home on Old Washington Highway near Dayton, Tenn., found an 8-year-old boy inside — bent over, wrapped in clear packing tape, and struggling to breathe.
The tape was wrapped around his mouth and jaws and his hair and body were soaked in sweat. The man didn’t know the boy’s mouth had been filled with dish soap.
Authorities say 32-year-old Amy Oliver – charged in the investigation launched last Friday with aggravated assault, aggravated child abuse and neglect and felony reckless endangerment – is being held on a $400,000 bond pending a hearing today in Rhea County General Sessions Court.
Investigator Rocky Potter said the man who discovered the boy grabbed the child he was there to pick up and ran out to call 911. Oliver is not the parent of any of the children who were at the home last week.
When officers got to the home, the tape was gone but a sticky substance was still on the boy’s skin, Potter said.