Just imagine what they do to pets....

[amymarley]

I live in Reno, about 27 miles from the capitol, Carson City, NV. Has anyone here seen the news the past 2 days. Anyway, a grocery store, called, "Smiths" saw this "girl" with a cart eating tons of food from the store. When approached, she said that she was 16 years old (at 50 pounds) and her and her brother who is 11 were locked in a bathroom for 5, yes, 5 years. Starved.... they had a couple of other children in the home who were treated "normal".... the cops went there, arrested, blah, blah, blah....

HOW FRIGGIN HORRIBLE....it's sad enough that we humans can treat our children that way, never mind what goes on with their animals. My heart hurts for these 2 children.

 

[Sheba]

I feel sooo bad for those kids! 5 years, wow!

 

[amymarley]

by the way, she was able to "escape" because her GRANDMOTHER went into the bathroom, and she pushed her out of the way, and found a store so she could eat....
Again, my hearts hurt for those kids, and I just found out that the MOTHER plead NOT GUILTY TODAY!!!!! yea right, I hope she finds "justice" in prision.

 

[GlassOnion]

What about Sibil?

Or that girl who was strapped to a chair in her room for 13 years of her life, not able to do anything except sit there day in and day out?

Stuff happens all the time and it's freaking crazy.

 

[scob89]

ok that is just wrong and something horrible should be done to the parents. I feel sorry for those kids too.

 

[PixieSticksandTricks]

That is crazy you have to be truly heartless and blind to do that to someone.

 

[smkie]

i was thinking the RAbbit Howls..what a horrible book that was. I don't understand why anyone has to suffer but especially the innocent..the babies, the pure. It seems to always come down to that for, well include the elderly too, they cannot protect themselves. No one warned me to watch out for wolves in sheep clothing when i was growing up, i trusted everyone and thought they all had the same morals and basic beliefs i did. What ia fool i was! i read in 100 police stories a police officer said that you grow up thinking what i stated before..that every one basically follows things like the golden rule then you become a cop and find that you might be the only one thinking that way.

 

[amymarley]

Sybil was the woman/girl who supposedly had 23 or 28 different personalities. I don't know if she was strapped down for 13 years, but she was the one to start the D.I.D. or split personality....disorder. But, she had over 20.

 

[RobinA]

OMG!!!!!! How horrid!!!! Those poor kids!
BTW, that movie Sybil gave me nightmares for YEARS!

 

[amymarley]

"My Michelle" was a bad book too... i worked when I was really young for a psycologist who dealt with satan and cult abuse..this is what this book was about. She also had different personalities, and the book was a bit scary. She was a victim of cult abuse....
How can humans do these things to a child?????

 

[GlassOnion]

I don't know if she was strapped down for 13 years

She wasn't. I was citing two different cases.

 

[bubbatd]

God bless the beasts and the children ....it's gone on forever .

 

[filarotten]

At least animals care for their babies. What has happened to the human race?

 

[Kaleigh'sAdrienne]

Sometimes you see the animals getting better treatment then the children.. sad.

 

[bubbatd]

Fila ... I agree !!! If only humans would tend their young as long as any beast does !!

 

[Dixie]

Is there a link available where I can read these stories? Somehow the 50lb 16 year old having enough strength to push a healthy grandmother out of the way just does not seem viable.

Heres how the body works-
When a female consumes less than 800 calories a day, she stops menustrating, when she is less than 100 pounds, her body begins to digest all body fat as a means to have the energy to function, at less than 60 pounds, basic body functions begin to deminish and at less than 50 pounds, body organs begin to shut down. At 50 pounds her body was likely also digesting muscle, which means, she was literally nothing but skin and bones, how she had the strength to push a heftier woman out of the way, then run to escape would take every ounce of energy she had.

If I had been dispatched to the scene, I would immediately Tx her to the nearest ER and take note of the home situation and her physical condition, and do a through physical examination to look for signs of physical abuse.

IV line of Normal Saline (for fluid replacement), and immediate bolus of D50 (Dextrose 50) to get needed sugars into her body.

Thats my input, and that is a sad situation to be in. It doesnt sound believeable, but then again we've seen the will to survive from malnourishment to the extremes in the Holocaust.

Dixie

 

[Denaluvscorgis]

Some people are totally nuts!!!!!!!!!!

 

[casablanca1]

There was a similar case near me a couple of years ago. Weird, in that a couple had 5 foster kids and only 2 were badly treated. The family photos are insane - three normal, healthy-looking kids, one slightly skinny kid, and the one boy who was so malnourished he was about the size of a 10-year-old when he was 18. In that case, the parents claimed the starved boy - who gained weight as soon as he was removed from their care - had an eating disorder and refused to eat.

 

[Dixie]

wasnt that the one where the two starved kids were allowed to eat only uncooked pancake mix, water, and few vegetables a day? And they were busted when the 18 year old was digging through the trash to find food, and the neighbors didnt believe him when he said he was 18.

That was on the national news for a while.

-Dix

 

[casablanca1]

Oh, yes, that was the one. Really weird story, the family was black, from a fairly nice town, active in their church, very shocking. They claimed the children who were underweight had severe eating disorders - and the boys were foster kids who had bad early lives and unusual behaviors - but there's no dispute that the parents at the very best neglected them - if the eating disorders were that bad, and the kids were that undernourished, it's inexplicable why the parents wouldn't have taken them to a doctor or a hospital. There were actually four boys who were underfed, the 19-year-old (I was rereading a news story about the case) was 4' tall and weighed 45lbs. The state got a shellacking for the case too - the boys won $12.5million from NJ, since DYFS failed to monitor the foster boys, and a caseworker who did monitor their healthy foster sister never apparently noticed the boys were in bad shape. My sister works for the welfare department, and wasn't surprised - she deals with DYFS all the time and says they're a mess, so half the time she just does the work herself.