WINONA, Minn. — A Winona woman has been charged with harassing and torturing a 3-year-old boy by binding him with duct tape. Joseline Puente Gundersen, age 20, videotaped the abuse and passed snippets around to co-workers at her job, police said. Snippets also online on the Snapchat site. The arrest was about 2 p.m. at the apartment where the abuse occurred, police said. The episode was July 27, police said. Two days later when police learned of the videos, officers went to the apartment and found the child safe and uninjured. Gundersen’s arrest followed two weeks of investigation and interviews with persons knowledgeable about what happened. Police were told that several people were in the apartment at the time, including the child’s mother. Police said the videos show the duct-taped child being dragged to a closet where a masked person wrapped in a blanket jumps out. The child is frightened and crying. The charge: Child torture, a felony. The arrest was at the apartment, in the 50 block of Links Lane off Homer Road on the Far East End.
Gundersen. Described by police as the child’s care-giver.