Hardwick Man Charged With Beating, Starving Son Held On High Bail
EAST BROOKFIELD (CBS) -- A Hardwick man has been ordered held on $200,000 cash bail on charges that he beat and starved his 7-year-old son into a coma.
A police report stated that 26-year-old Randall Lints forced his son, Jack, to wash floors. The boy was admitted to the hospital last month with bleach burns, and remains in a coma in a long-term care facility.
Lints' lawyer did not challenge the high bail, and outside the courtroom he said there is blame to go around for the abuse. Attorney Michael Hussey said the system failed Lints, calling out caretakers, judges and the Department of Children and Families.
Lints has less than an eighth grade education and emotional problems, his lawyer said.
"There were serious errors of judgment, there were misguided ideas about how to discipline his child," Hussey said. "There were missed opportunities and there were a lot of poor parenting skills that great out of frustration, immaturity and, largely, ignorance."
Hussey also said the case record indicates that DCF workers were in disagreement over whether Lints was capable of caring for the boy.
He said he's looking at the boy's entire life to figure out what went wrong.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Lana Jones reports:
