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NC couple charged with murder
Macclesfied residents in court Monday
AP
Issue date: 6/18/08 Section: News
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Attorneys appeared Monday with Brice Brian McMillan, 41, and his wife Sandra Elizabeth McMillan, 36, of Macclesfield.
"It's a sad case," defense attorney Allen Powell, who represents Brice McMillan, said after the hearing. He declined any further comment, and the two did not enter a plea.
The county sheriff's office has said Brice McMillan told a deputy the teen was being disobedient and was forced to sleep outside last Tuesday while tied to a tree. The teen was released Wednesday morning, but again tied up that night for bad behavior.
Sheriff James Knight has said the boy was left tied to the tree until the following afternoon, when his stepmother found him unresponsive. Authorities believe the boy was bound to the tree with plastic ties and possibly other kinds of material.
Arrest warrants for both McMillans said the child sustained "bruising to the wrist, cuts to entire body, missing flesh from buttocks, results from being tied to a tree for approximately 18 hours resulting in death."
The warrants didn't reveal a specific cause of death. An autopsy is pending at the state's chief medical examiner's office in Chapel Hill.
Two other children living in the McMillans in the home, ages 7 and 9, have been placed in the custody of the Department of Social Services, authorities said.
Macclesfield is about an hour east of Raleigh.
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Darby Welker
posted 6/18/08 @ 6:09 PM EST
They should be tied to a tree themselves! It sickens me that there are so many loving families out there who cannot have children, and yet there are families like this phyically abusing the rite to even be a parent! I hope they get the death penalty. (Continued…)
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