Former NFL player Daniel Muir and his wife have been charged after allegedly hiding their son when they were accused of abusing him.
Bryson Muir, 14, was found safe Wednesday morning at the family’s home in Logansport after a search warrant was executed during a raid at the residence, the Indiana State Police said.
Cheryl Wright, the boy’s grandmother, told authorities that his parents asked her to pick Bryson up in Toledo, Ohio, earlier this month. When she took the boy in, he had a black eye, a split lip, and a swollen face.
“He just said that his dad did it, but he wasn’t angry, but he wasn’t angry at his father,” Wright told WTHF last week. “He told me that he deserved it and it was OK. So I told him that it wasn’t and that nobody should beat their children like that, not if they love them.”
“I can only imagine how many times he had been hit in the face for it to be like that,” she told FOX 59.
She told the station she gave police a photo documenting the boy’s injuries.
His parents picked him up on June 16 but the boy went missing as police began a domestic battery investigation. The investigators theorized he was switched into another vehicle shortly after leaving his grandmother’s house.
The two agreed to bring Bryson to a meeting with detectives but backed out an hour beforehand. A silver alert was issued on Sunday and Bryson was considered “missing and endangered.”
After the Muirs failed to appear in court on Tuesday, search warrants for the house were issued.
Bryson is currently “safe and well” in the custody of the Cass County Department of Child Services, state police said.
Muir, 40, is charged with obstruction of justice and domestic battery. Kristin Muir, his wife, is also charged with obstruction, police said.
Daniel Muir, played in the NFL from 2007 to 2014 for the Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, New York Jets and Oakland Raiders.
