Dad gets probation for using shock collar
The Oregon man who used a dog shock collar on his children was sentenced Monday to three years of supervised probation.
Under the sentence, Todd Marcum is not allowed to have contact with his four children without approval of the Department of Human Services and his parole officer.
Detectives said Marcum admitted to putting an electronic dog collar on his four children and shocking all of them at least once, acording to Fox 12 News in Salem. At other times, police said, he would chase his 3-year-old son around with the collar, making him cry at the thought of being shocked by it.
The children – then ages 9, 8, 6 and 3 — have been in their mother’s custody since Marcum’s arrest.
Marcum told the court at his sentencing Monday that he is receiving counseling.
“If anybody knows me, they know my wife and my kids are my whole world,” Marcum said. “There’s no way I can make any excuse for what I’ve done. It will take me the rest of my life to make up for this to my family. Nothing like this will ever happen again.”
Posted by jwoestendiek September 30th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
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