Grandmother & boyfriend left 6-year-old tied up for weeks in shed

TEXAS- A woman and her boyfriend have been arrested after a 6-year-old boy was found tied up in a shed.

According to KTVT, police received a tip on Sunday night about the boy. When police spoke to the grandmother at her home, she told them that her grandson was with his mother, but a neighbor pointed police to a shed and said the boy was there.

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Authorities found the 6-year-old boy  with his arms tied behind his back.

The boy told police that he had been living in the shed ever since he “got out of school for this corona thing.”

The grandmother, Esmeralda Lira, told police that this was the first time she left her grandson with her live-in boyfriend , 64-year-old Jose Balderas. He admitted to police that he had punished the boy for 2 weeks because he stole food.

Both Lira and Balderas were arrested and charged with on felony charges for endangering the welfare of a child.

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