Local mother arrested for child endangerment
By Will Jones
wjones@mercurynews.com
San Jose Police arrested Lisa Tyler, 41, Tuesday afternoon, responding to a report from neighbors who claimed to have witnessed the mistreatment of children in the Tyler house in the 500 block of Empire.
Upon their arrival police discovered the two children, ages 4 and 6, standing unresponsive in the front yard, clearly infected with the happy bug. Tyler was not at home and the children were taken into protective custody and rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment. When Tyler returned to the house several hours later she was immediately arrested and charged with children endangerment for having allowed the children to have become grinners and leaving them without supervision.
Tyler confessed to having infected her children purposefully, with the intention of making them more tractable.
“I just wanted them to stay still,” she said, “They never stay still and they never shut up. I just wanted a break.”
Tyler claims to have purchased the adult happy bugs from a dealer on St. James St. that the police closed down two months ago, and to have locked the children in their bedroom with the flies to infect them.
“It was one of the creepier things I’ve seen,” said arresting officer Charles Blake, “I’ve seen hundreds of grinners, but you just don’t expect to see it on tiny little kids—not since the initial outbreak. They just stood there like dolls. I don’t know how a mother could do that to her own children.”
Tyler, a nurse, did feed the children intravenously while they were infected and they are expected to make a full recovery.
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