Florida Man Timothy Ferriter Was Forced to Make ‘Tough Choices’ to Control Son’s Behavior: Defense

[@dr.g3860]

Should have taken the plea offer for 2yrs in prison. Too late now.

[@BabyBoy_Milo]

He had a plea offer for 2 YEARS and he turned it down????

[@redcharm6173]

He’s such a fool .

[@abelis644]

​@@BabyBoy_Milo Yup. lol 2 years and 5 years probation, and he said no thanks!!!😅😅😅

[@mhizzcatia9511]

Yup he should have

[@dianesquires9987]

Please send this guy to prison.

[@Chris-Truth-Seeker]

The victim becomes the victim again in court this time by what we call "Lawyers". Disgusting!

[@LdnLady]

Secondary victimization

[@LSarah36]

All that she cares for is 💰💰💰. If I was a lawyer I would be a starving one, I could never represent criminals, abusers, murderers...

[@damhood2033]

That's the job. They probably deal with guilt for saying things they don't really believe.

[@mhizzcatia9511]

That is their job... y ate ya'll blaming the attorneys fr doing a job they're being paid to do...make it make sense

[@ACB2K]

They should have given him back to his owners. He wasn't as good as y'all want to believe..I am not adopting any child...My brother and his wife adopted a child, it was the worst mistake ever..

[@junelepley502]

Unbelievable..noway under no circumstances a parent should do this..the boy needed help he should have got him help..so disturbing a parent could do this..😡🤬

[@Jackie_blue_12]

Forced to put a young boy in a box with a bucket? This is not good parenting, this is @buse.

[@jeanataylor6864]

But yet , NEVER. take him for help during ALL of this ? I do not understand WHY they didnt seek professional help from ANY childcare agency , doctor, psychologist to help handle him if he was SO difficult ?

[@WhitneyBrock88]

This is the only video I've watched of this case so far, but I'm definitely going to lol a lot more into it. So I am not up to speed on everything, but I heard the defense attorney say they had the child in and out of many many many pediatricians, psychologists, therapists and never could find anyone that actually helped. Now, I'm in no way defending his actions, but I'm confused by your comment because I heard her say that several times.

[@pamelastevens1609]

People just want to rant at a 30-second clip - they don't actually listen to anything that's being said in the actual video.

[@WhitneyBrock88]

@pamelastevens1609 Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. She clearly said they tried so many different doctors, therapists, etc to get him help with no success.

[@Swt5ihrok]

Here in Australia there are a multitude of disability services available for families requiring them. Respite care family intervention etc. They obviously have the means/income to investigate services available to them. Don't understand why this family wasn't supported in this way. Something is amiss!!!

[@WhitneyBrock88]

@InsideandOut7799 yes! That's what I was saying. I'm not sure the OP actually watched the video before posting.

[@kathleendavenport4988]

The tough choice would have been to remove your child for treatment to change his behavior. You DO NOT torture your child to make them better.

[@formhubfar]

Hey lets all give a round of applause for SUPER MOM here!!!!!

[@tinadavis566]

The lawyer is getting on my nerves I mean come on you lock the boy up in the room did something a parent should never do.

[@slconley]

I don’t like this lady’s argument. There is no excuse for the father’s actions, get outside help.

[@SpitefulAZ]

kid had it coming

[@abelis644]

​@@formhubfar Hey let's all give a round of applause for SUPER CLOWN here!!!

[@cynthiah.3015]

Victim blaming is not a defense. They are both guilty the minute that box was built

[@geoffpoole483]

@@InsideandOut7799 Why didn't they do that? However bad the child's behaviour, that does not justify locking him in a room for hours on end, with no plumbing facilities.

[@chrisbogart7345]

Yup they should have just abandoned him. The parents would have been better off.

[@paisley1134]

@@chrisbogart7345or maybe just let him become a Jeffrey dahmer

[@sashamulligan2993]

@@InsideandOut7799 you are minimizing what these parents did. They didn’t just put him in a room for a couple hours a day. He didn’t have access to food and water at times, he was harshly disciplined by corporal punishment. He had to urinate in a bucket and leave the bucket in his room. He had no control over the temperature or lighting. It is horrible what they did to this poor child.

[@sashamulligan2993]

@@chrisbogart7345 well right now I’m not too concerned about the parents. The child would’ve been much better off without those monsters.

[@chilikonkarma]

Anyone would have behavioral problems and problems with emotional regulation with a controlling parent locking you up in a room with a bucket

[@ConnorMiller417]

Every child deserves parents but not all parents deserve to have a child. He’s one of them. No child deserves to be treated like that!

[@alyssawssinging4039]

yup exactly

[@ElkeSiegburg]

That is truly wise spoken👌

[@Hunnie_B]

This attorney will NOT convince me that what Ferriter did to this teen was acceptable behavior......he was TORTURING HIM!!

[@NYC2023-du8mg]

I agree. I doubt anyone with children on the jury will buy the defense argument if they are a decent human being.

[@abelis644]

​@@NYC2023-du8mg I never had children and I know this freak tortured the boy. You don't need kids to know you shouldn't treat them as Ronan was treated.

[@NYC2023-du8mg]

​@@abelis644 Good point..thanx.

[@AstroTheLazyMoon]

I bet when he’s walking through your kids school shooting it up you would. There’s no help for kids with behavior issues. I have a son that has severe behavioral issues. You don’t have a clue

[@Nurturing2]

7:32 Defense attorney just made the state’s case. He suffers from a neurobiological condition and therefore “wired” in such way that caused the behaviors referenced. It was NOT his fault and punishment would NOT resolve the underlying issues. Sadly, these parents escalated the punishments because they weren’t getting the outcome they wanted. Ignorance is no excuse!!! This is disgusting!!! 💔

[@susanhales2730]

They should have gave the child up..... just awful. 😔🙏

[@labitcoineragt3596]

They should have, but some other family would have dealt with the psycho child

[@susanleblanc3944]

No

[@forensicbadassprofiling]

Bad parenting is criminal. Period. And when a defense attorney is victim shaming a child, that alone is Criminal. Period.

[@missy8867]

Agreed! Kids with behavioral issues need more support not isolation. Her defense is ridiculous. Mhy on Earth would they adopt an infant if they are already experiencing issues with one child to the point that they don't know how to manage it?

[@1986Dams]

I agree about the first part but everyone is entitled to a zealous defence no matter how contemptible - and in fairness she says in her statement that the choices he made weren't the right ones. (NB: I also think the choices he made were criminal and I hope he's found guilty)

[@jennymelville6738]

@@InsideandOut7799Thank you for your honest and highly commendable comment. Some people in these comments wouldn’t be capable of handling this truth.

[@geoffpoole483]

@@InsideandOut7799 Good point, but this was an overseas adoption so failed adoption procedures could be difficult.

[@forensicbadassprofiling]

@@InsideandOut7799 That still doesn't excuse a grown man for sticking a child in a box as punishment. Sick parenting. Sick judicial system. And again, no justice for the victim. Only a strong defense for the criminal.

[@221BBakerStreet]

She's actually using this as a DEFENCE? 😳 That he had a choice to make and he chose to keep his child in a cage for most of the day? I guess I shouldn't be surprised since she's expected to defend the indefensible. But this is just beyond the pale. 😒

[@Jo-yp8wy]

Victim blaming. Disgusting and disgraceful.

[@Temulon]

She's just doing her job. Everyone deserves to be represented by an attorney, and his attorney is trying to cast doubt and make him seem the innocent party.

[@abelis644]

"​Trying" and hopefully failing.

[@babs3652]

Not be able to switch on/off the light, have to use a bucket instead of a toilet, a locked door, no daylight from a window, lack of proper food and water. I don't think those things did anything to improve his mental state.

[@Star-hk6gc]

I’m sorry but what does his brain development or anything about him have ANYTHING to do with keeping him in a cage????

[@slconley]

There is no excuse for this fathers behavior.

[@Star-hk6gc]

@@InsideandOut7799 they had money and access to all types of help and resources and respite services. Many kids adopted through orphanages end up with reactive attachment disorder. Kids like that take work and counseling. These parents did not want to put in the work.

[@ivafrosh7675]

​@@InsideandOut7799don't know, maybe not caging him and letting him use a normal toilet would be a good start, along with therapy? 🙄🙄🙄

[@deuteronimus750]

CPS feels bad parenting is a crime.

[@BabyBoy_Milo]

“Yes your honor I locked my adopted child up in my home but what you don’t realize is he really really sucked :/“

[@bijanka]

💯💯💯. Your honor, yes, he had to use the bathroom in a bucket but did you know he MOCKED HIS SISTER?!

[@chilikonkarma]

It's really disturbing how she tries to normalise pathological behavior of the parent just like any other psychopath

[@Nancy-nx9cf]

Intent is not the question. Whether his acts were criminal is the question.

[@redcharm6173]

If you have to ask if it’s criminal than you are no different.

[@tinadavis566]

You have the nerve to say doing something like that to your child is for the benefit of the other kids and to keep them safe. 😡

[@dianep3071]

Look at all these teens who are killing their parents and siblings. I don’t know this case at all. But think about those kids and parents that have been killed by these kids

[@libertyna933]

You forgot to listen to the sibling's testimony . His sister was afraid the father would kill the son RF. She was not afraid of her brother!

[@danniieem2840]

I bet he is regretting not taking the plea deal

[@lindaouellette6656]

So I have to ask…since this boy was so bad, did they make a box-room in school for him? 😢 I had a chuckle at “bad parenting isn’t against the law” I’m no lawyer BUT!!! YES IT IS!!!!!

[@SammysMysASMR]

Bad parenting isn't locking a child in an 8x8 room to sh$t in a bucket, that's being a criminal

[@SilentThundersnow]

Yes! And bad parenting actually is against the law. They take kids every day from bad parents.

[@j.c.7555]

There are no excuses for such parenting. Victim blaming is sickening. It really is criminal what they did. How would locking a child in a room make them productive citizens? I don’t see it at all.

[@TheSlayFiles]

Maybe he was acting out because school was the only freedom he had? I mean anyone consider that?

[@scootchieandboo]

Yes his intent seems to be criminal, it is criminal to torture a child and the choice to do it is not simply bad parenting, it ended in murder, and as for his escalating behaviours, likely caused by the escalating torture. Justa horrible evil person, nothing more

[@abelis644]

No one died...

[@misswashington99]

Tim had criminal intent as soon as he hired the contractor to build the box. He knew full well exactly what that room was going to be used for...that was criminal intent right there...

[@concertvip6221]

Ridicules … wouldn’t matter if the kid was waving a loaded gun around at his siblings on a daily bases. It does not allow one to store your child in a box in your garage. Typical defense attorney when all else fails .. blame the victim. Watch his facial expressions closely even he doesn’t believe what she is saying!

[@mirandaajames]

For 3 years this child was living in a cell. At what point do you realize, ok this isn't working either, let's try something else? Sounds like intentional malice to me. Honestly, if you listen closely, every argument the defense made they contradicted with another argument

[@ruthjames4769]

Question: why didn't the parents get mental health help for this child rather than lock him up????? NOW they are turning to mental health professionals AFTER being locked up for years.

[@edwinacaparelli9911]

Ummmm.... When you can't cope with your child you need to ask for help. Just because you're struggling with your child does not give one the right to take their liberty and their rights away.

[@jadehare]

Exact. There is always help out there. People professionally trained

[@ddt67]

This “lawyer” needs to sit her butt down.

[@TaliaBSJ]

I’m curious if this female defense attorney is a mother… if she believes this treatment was appropriate for a child?

[@LdnLady]

More likely not a mother but a career chaser

[@SloverOfTeuth]

She said these were wrong decisions, right at the start. No point in commenting if you aren't even listening.

[@geoffpoole483]

@@SloverOfTeuth OOOHHHH EDGY!! Go and bash the bishop while watching Fox News.

[@SloverOfTeuth]

@@geoffpoole483 No, not "edgy", some people just can't take criticism. Go check the facts. And I prefer not to have other people's perversions projected on to me - do what your hormones force you to do, but keep it at home, don't try to pretend it is any way normal, and clean up afterwards. If you don't tell people about it, no-one will think you are a creep.

[@abelis644]

I'm not a parent, but I know that you don't treat a child like these monsters treated Ronan.

[@SimplyNailArt]

I don't know why you're all asking how this lawyer could live with herself. She's doing her JOB, she's getting paid to do this. Just like every other lawyer would. She seems like a good lawyer to me, very straight to the point.

[@bijanka]

@15:18 "Once Pierce was born, they needed a baby room so they built Ronan a room in the garage." WHAT? Keep the baby in the parents' bedroom and let the older child sleep in his own room. Is the excuse that he is a danger or that they decided to bring another child into the world?

[@johannahunderwood4596]

The Defence explained that the Ferriters had previously adopted their daughter from China, and decided to adopt this son from Vietnam as it was “culturally similar”. WTF??! No they’re not - it just sounds like a lazy euphemism of saying “all Asians look the same” and is just as insulting and ignorant.

[@richh9450]

Though he didn't react correctly, his intentions weren't criminal? Build a box to imprison a child who desperately needed his help. Oh yeah, just for the yuk yuk yuk of it, let's install an air conditioner and punish the kid for turning it on in Florida heat and humidity. Wow. Lock them up.

[@slconley]

No excuses for horrible parenting like this.

[@slconley]

@@InsideandOut7799 no I don’t have sympathy for the abuser. What the parents did was wrong and extremely abusive.

[@SharpTac]

Lock him up

[@redcharm6173]

Throw away the key.

[@capricorngirl3353]

This man is a monster !

[@sinead187]

Bravo to the builder who reported these sick monsters.

[@abelis644]

What builder? A cop reported them.

[@kendrasong8606]

She is such a horrible lawyer

[@Lizard717]

So your whole defense is victim blaming 🙄 🤔 😒

[@stephaniebaker4024]

Wrong route to go as he may or needed behavioral therapy not tortured. Put them under the prison already.

[@kaiyin3842]

Therapy is torture. And when they start, the patient has no say and no human rights. The irony!

[@mai_world]

So the answer is to lock them in a dark room w/ no windows?

[@tanneradams20]

See in the 90s most of us were beat and tossed in our rooms. If he would’ve given him a toilet I may not even think twice.

[@danniieem2840]

He was locked upto 18 hrs a day .

[@AZGriffins2U]

Listen to defence opening statement, before beginning to size up this Father.

[@Dls-e5y]

They could have made him a ward of the court I wonder if they were getting paid monthly to adopt him

[@09ChargerRT]

You do not get PAID.......to adopt, no where is this true. Get educated

[@ReginaK2]

They paid money to adopt. You’ve got it backwards…

[@pamelastevens1609]

Are you referring to when a person adopts someone from the foster system with disabilities? This is the only time I've heard of someone getting a check. This child was in an international adoption. No one but the parents pay for everything involved in international and other private adoptions.

[@Dls-e5y]

@@pamelastevens1609 I know people who adopt foster kids get paid until there eighteen or graduated

[@abelis644]

​@@InsideandOut7799 🙄 Here you go again... lol the great majority of adoptees are fine people.

[@kell_checks_in]

The boy's behavior or neurology are immaterial; what they did was obviously not appropriate and in fact the exact opposite of what they should have been doing. If they had consulted ANY psychologist, they would have immediately been informed to knock off the locked room crap. No excuse.

[@miogi0072]

It would probably kill me to look into the eyes of this child/teenager/young adult. I believe the father and anyone who knew about the boys treatment should be sentenced to live in the same size box/room under the exact same conditions and circumstances... 10 years for every year the boy was subject to such torturous acts.

[@sharistrazz3313]

I CONCUR AND SECOND YOUR OPINION!! 😁

[@brendamcdaniel4183]

1:32 This attorney is absolutely the perfect picture of what’s wrong with our world. She has the audacity to give these🥴🥴🥴excuses?!?!😡😡”Bad parenting does not make someone a criminal”.....she is🥴🥴🥴Well honey boo boo, in THIS case it does! She’s disgusting!

[@rulzzzzzz]

She is doing her job as a defense attorney by advocating for her client and creating as much reasonable doubt for his guilt. People like you are what’s wrong with our world. There is a reason why we have a legal system with due process and allow both sides to present their case.

[@SadieCleary]

Worst defense opener ever

[@shelaghreisner9275]

Agreed!!

[@makamurphy]

Still no excuse they couldve referred him to get help because they failed miserably

[@richardhayman4868]

1:32 Uh, excuse me...criminal parenting makes someone a criminal. You can't substitute "bad" for "criminal"; they are not interchangeable. Criminally bad parenting is a thing.

[@scp-09698]

Bad parenting!!!

[@caroleoh3466]

Why did she say they were gonna call him Tye for this case- and then she proceeds to call him Ronan and Tye. Kind of confusing

[@myrnasanjose7985]

Ask this lawyer if she'll do the same if she got a biological child with the same issue as that of the Boy. Yes, bad parenting does'nt mean you're a criminal but putting a child in a dark, hot , small, locked room without a toilet, without enough food and water is a torture Madame Lawyer!

[@stephen4782]

This defense attorney alone is enough to get him convicted 😂 He actually silently clasps his hands together and prays immediately after the judge first admonishes her. He knows it’s over.

[@nataliak1922]

There is no help for parents with troubled teen children in this country this is the truth. I witnessed this with my own family. CPS don’t care about troubled teens as they care about little children because no one wants to foster them as opposites to younger kids. Parents are left alone with all the mess… sad but true

[@valerierodger]

Wrong. They had the money to get treatment for him. They never saw it through,

[@sueashley554]

Tried this tried that, try loving him. And before anyone said's i don't know what i'm on about I me have 3 sons and never beat one of them. When his acting out try hugging him NOT beating him. My mother told me to try that and I did. She all so has 3 son's and me.

[@TheYupido]

By her logic Ruby Franke is gonna be mom of the year. That boy needed everything but a beating and being locked away.

[@bobbieswan9096]

Tim Ferriter claims he had to make tough choices to control his son. We haven’t heard any testimony which confirms those claims. Even if true, he should not have been tortured.

[@hannahwalker7221]

That defense lawyer, though…how does she live with herself having to humiliate the victim in televised court!? She should be ashamed. But she isn’t. 😡

[@coolguyenglish4484]

I’m confused because no matter what if it wasn’t her, the next defence lawyer would’ve been doing the same thing because everyone gets a lawyer.

[@NjiHyga02]

​​​@@coolguyenglish4484Exactly. If they are a competent lawyer, they will do what she's doing.

[@googleuser2226]

After the defense's cross examination of Ronan, I've changed my mind. The parents absolutely did a disservice to him by not having him arrested and jailed. The things he did were diabolical - especially to his baby brother.

[@Princessdiana30x]

They could send him to counseling and not lock a child in a box. That's beyond me you get him into programs you get him help for his behavior not do that. Horrific. I don't care how bad a child is you keep trying to get him help. They gave up and put him in a box and thought that would change his behavior umm noo. Beyond sociopathic behavior on the parents.

[@Horseymama1]

Why was the live coverage of the trial taken down?

[@vikkyvictoriaf2395]

That’s what I want to know!

[@canadianadvantage6253]

What happened to the live feed? Stopped halfway through on replay. Now it’s gone.

[@susanhoh1414]

Sure way to communicate with your kid is to keep him out of the home , in the dark and belittled everyday.

[@carolmegiveron4580]

Why didn’t one of the other kids have the box in the garage and the boy have a room in the house??????????? These parents just threw this kid away! MONSTERS!!

[@katheryn8272]

Yes. Criminal intent

[@sharistrazz3313]

When the family MOVED AFTER the NATURAL BORN BABY was born, WHY didnt the parents BUY A HOUSE with the appropriate amount of rooms for the WHOLE FAMILY?? IMO, because Ronan/Ty wasnt their NATURAL CHILD, he was NOT ACCEPTED as 'PART OF THE FAMILY', he was more or less, a PET. 😡 I really HOPE that the 'MOTHER' TRACY is charged and convicted in this case as well!! I am only into the video as far as ' OPENING STATEMENTS' DEFENSE SIDE. Already I am appauld. This guy does NOT deserve the honor of holding the title of 'Dad, Daddy, Papa, pa,' he is entitled to the name 'FATHER' because he bought that title when he bought the baby. Tracy, is in that same catagory. She owns the right to the title of 'Mother' but nothing else. TRUE Mommies & Daddies DO NOT treat their children like animals. 😡

[@pandskocer1362]

He had no access to turn on lights ,control the temp of the room and dispose of himself in a bucket. Did he feel like a member of the family???

[@tromedl]

Tough choice...should I or should I not put my child to a box.

[@BethS-l3w]

What are the consequences given in criminal court for the crimes the son was committing?

[@timetreasures557]

What a lame and convenient defence! His attitude so amplified in how he spoke to the child says all!!! Every abuser says what they do is for the victim's good!!!

[@handsomerube]

Almost nothing following “Florida man” is good…

[@tomwilliam5118]

What a sick individual

[@SilentThundersnow]

Anyone else think he could play Darrin on Bewitched? (Irrelevant side note) But...Is 'psycho look' the only face he has? Cuz I would definitely trade that in.

[@jacqueashton]

He turned down the plea deal.... Can't wait till he is sentenced and sitting in a box for a long time....

[@cosacita]

Those parents are disgusting 🤮 only listened to the opening statements so far, but no matter the child said or did excuses locking him up in a box and torturing him. I couldn’t believe my ears listening to that lawyer.

[@elkbow]

Everyone is commenting, yet have you seen the evidence?

[@maryjane4432]

Not only that but if this child hurt someone they would blame the parents right away without evidence.

[@elkbow]

@@loveforeignaccents we've seen a lot of people charged with little evidence and lies

[@daletheriault9956]

Ok...put both parents in jail, in "the hole" for many years and that will make it even. Jail will teach them humanity!!!

[@haiku_187]

Parents too easy on these kids these days

[@pandskocer1362]

I am sick of these parents! I hope they get locked up. Why lock someone up with no one to talk to. He felt that he didn’t belong,the child.

[@ban1o]

I don't understand why they had another when one of their kids was having serious behavior issues and they apparently both work.

[@joycewedel9084]

He kept him like a prisoner of war.

[@athensmajnoo3661]

Imprisoning a child is a crime....... Whatever the f... ing intension......

[@silmaraa]

Instead of blaming the child because his biological mother dropped him at an orphanage, why the parents wouldn’t give him love and hear the kid out? He didn’t need a school to engage him more, he needed to be seen, heard and loved by the parents

[@abelis644]

Yeah, they're monsters. Pure and simple.

[@juliehubbard9752]

The defence lawyer is embarrassing.

[@ACB2K]

This boy was trouble, they should have give him back....

[@Seren1624]

What happened to the live streaming of day one?

[@J3SSxICA.]

Im wondering the same thing!

[@Seren1624]

I took a break for supper and came back to finish the day one viewing and couldn't find it anywhere @@J3SSxICA.

[@elsatorres7138]

Bad parenting who did what this Monterrey did, are criminals

[@katheryn8272]

Sick man

[@joycewedel9084]

They were raising a potential criminal & really feared him but no excuse not to feed him everyday & good nutritious meals.

[@m.w8867]

They did not try to get him help by the way they only took him to two appointments for 30 minutes

[@ewelulu]

What an absolute load of BS. Guess they are going to go the Ruby Franke route.

[@dougrees3119]

Does anyone know why they took the entire livestream down from earlier today?