A 42-year-old Florida man and his 35-year-old wife are behind bars after he allegedly became so enraged about a displaced couch cushion that he beat and berated a 12-year-old child for nearly a half hour.
Lance Rachel Sr. is facing a charge of aggravated child abuse and battery by strangulation while Kimberly Rachel is in jail for failing to report said abuse, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release . The alleged abuse occurred on Dec. 7 at a home in Kissimmee, which is near Orlando.
Lance Rachel “was angry about a couch cushion being displaced and accused the victim of lying,” deputies said. “The suspect maliciously punished the child by screaming obscenities and physically abusing the victim over the course of 28 minutes.”
Home surveillance video captured some of the incident, per a probable cause arrest affidavit.