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VIDEO CBS13.com Grapevine, Texas What began as a sleepover appears to have ended in a nightmare for a girl in Texas reports CBS station KTVT-TV in Dallas.
Local police are investigating allegations that a 13-year-old girl at a house party was drunk, duct taped, and tasered. Shock reverberated through the quiet Grapevine, Texas neighborhood where Saturday's alleged taser assault took place.
"We've had trouble with that house before," said neighbor and parent Susan Reding.
"I have a 13-year-old daughter," Reding said. "I would not allow her to go to a party that I knew was unsupervised and that I knew would be older boys there."
"There was a 15- and 16-year-old boy there. Then we had older people there, in the 20 to 21 year range, and then the adults, the parents," Sgt. Bob Murphy, Grapevine police, said.
According to an affidavit, a 13-year-old girl at the party "drank too much ... was duct taped ... and tasered."
"The one thing I was grateful for when I read the report was that while she was duct taped and her mouth covered, as intoxicated as she was, that she didn't vomit," Sgt. Murphy said. "I believe we'd be working a homicide case now if that happened."
The parents of the girl who held the party would not speak on camera, but said it was a "sleepover that went wrong" and downplayed the incident as kids getting out of hand.
The mother says she doesn't know how the girl got drunk, but said the girl agreed to the duct taping. And, she added, the taser was something the family played with.
They said their daughter Sabrina, a member of the Colleyville Heritage High School Pantherettes, would not have any sleepovers again.
But Reding thinks it should never have happened in the first place.
"We don't allow drugs, and we don't allow drinking and we don't allow smoking. None of that's allowed in our home. That's our standards. That's our Christian belief. That's how we raise our children," she said.
She added if she had trouble with her child's friend, she would "call the parents, if I knew the parents. I'd send kids home ... I'd be calling police."
The adults at the party face charges of injury to a child and the juveniles face assault charges.
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