A Florida man received multiple life sentences for horrifically abusing his stepson, actions that were discovered by a quick-thinking waitress who “felt there was something really wrong.”

Timothy Lee Wilson, 36, was found guilty of false imprisonment, aggravated child abuse and child neglect in June.

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Flaviane Carvalho, a server at a Mrs. Potato restaurant in Orlando, Fla., was working on New Year’s Day in 2021 when she noticed the boy’s parents didn’t order him any food, WOFL reported at the time.

She also noticed he had scratches and bruises on his face.

Carvalho quickly scrawled “Do you need help?” on some paper and showed it to the then 11-year-old victim while his parents weren’t paying attention.

The boy nodded and Carvalho called police.

“I’m super-concerned and I don’t know what to do, can you give me some advice?” Carvalho asked a dispatcher, according to the outlet.

Investigators discovered Wilson had been torturing and neglecting the boy. The child’s mother, Kristen Swann, was also arrested for allegedly abusing him.

Abuse inflicted on the child included being “hung upside down from a door” with ratchet straps “tied around his ankles and neck,” “hit with a wooden broom” and handcuffed to a dolly.

He was also forced to do planks for 30 minutes at a time and would be beaten if he failed, and often didn’t get food as punishment.

“What this child had gone through, it was torture,” Police Chief Orlando Rolon said during a news conference at the time. “Seeing what that 11-year-old had to go through, it shocks your soul.”

He added: “We probably would’ve been talking about a potential homicide investigation if she (Carvalho) had not intervened when she did.”

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