Father criticised after duct-taping baby daughter to lounge wall during MOTD.

By Our Norfolk Reporter: Ian Bred

LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK — A father has been accused of “appalling parenting” after posting a photograph online showing his 11-month-old daughter attached to a living room wall with duct tape while he watched football on TV.

The image, uploaded late Tuesday evening with the caption “finally found something that works,” quickly circulated across social media platforms, where users expressed concern over the child’s welfare.

New dad, Terry Dicks, 28, defended the arrangement as a “temporary and practical childcare solution” designed to stop the baby “crawling behind the sofa, unplugging things and generally causing chaos during Match of the Day.”

Climbing the walls

Neighbours said the man had previously complained about the difficulty of “keeping control” of an increasingly mobile infant.

“He said babies move constantly and there’s no pause button,” said one resident. “At first we thought he was joking when he mentioned ‘wall storage’.”

Child protection officials confirmed they were “aware of the image” and were assessing whether intervention was required. One spokesperson stated that while parenting could be “challenging and exhausting,” adhesive restraint systems were “not the answer.”

At the time of publication, the father had removed the baby with duct tape photograph and replaced it with a brief statement reading: “People are overreacting. She actually enjoyed being up there.”

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