Injured boy, 7, was monitored by remote camera

The Telegram & Gazette reported (http://bit.ly/1IoqPk1 ) details from a police report in the investigation of 26-year-old Randall Lints, who pleaded not guilty to assault and endangerment charges last week.

“It is with tears of joy I announce [he] opened his eyes today”, Amber Loiselle wrote in a post. He also reportedly watched the boy’s movements inside the room, using a security camera he could access through his cellphone.

Lints allegedly installed an alarm on Jack’s bedroom door and rarely let him leave. Agency workers said Jack had few toys to play with, often had to squat against a wall as punishment and that his father would also punish him by keeping him out of school.

Rick Cinclair/Worcester Telegram & Gazette/AP Randall Lints, who is accused of beating his 7-year-old son into a coma, monitored the boy’s every move and confined him in his room in Hardwick, Mass., authorities say. He was fed a limited diet and few fluids to control toilet accidents. He had life-threatening injuries and weighed only 38 1/2 pounds.

He strangled one of his younger half-siblings and hurt a kitten so bad it had to be put down, Chadwick told investigators.

Jack remains in coma but his mother says he is improving slowly but surely.

A Facebook update to a page dedicated to Jack Loiselle said that the boy woke up earlier Saturday. Worried, Loiselle to file complaints to the police, but nothing came of them.