Tough Love Can Kill Your Child

The parents of 17-year-old Liam Ashley wanted to teach him a lesson for taking his mother’s car without permission. They charged him with theft. The judge offered him bail but his parents chose to send him to prison as a deterrent. He was strangled and beaten to death on the way to prison.

Ashley was found badly beaten in the back of a Chubb Security van on Thursday night. Although he was revived by paramedics at the scene, he died on Friday. On the trip to Auckland Central Remand prison, he was believed to have been strangled and assaulted by two others in the van. Link via

His parents have a lifetime to rue over the fact that their tough love was way too tough.