What, the, ****!?
These people, are...I not to say as I would sound like the rest of the judgmental society.
Stuff like this happens all of the time, only this time it caught media attention. There are people out there that wish to do nothing but harm to those around them. This is sad because it happened to a child, if this happened to an adult then I bet the media would not pay it much attention. Being stuffed into a footlocker though!? What ever happened to the chair facing the corner!? What about the belt? Scolding? Geez! If a child of mine (I have none fyi) took a popsicle out of the freezer and I found out, I scold scold (yell at) him/her about having to ask permission, not lock him/her into an enclosed space! I thought Harry Potter had it rough with being locked into the crawlspace under a staircase!