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Wakemen Ohio sept 12th... Sheriffs deputies found 11 children locked in cages less thanb 3 .5 feet high inside a home , but the adult couple living there denied abusing or neglecting the children, the authorities said. A judge placed the children some with autisim in foster homes.They were found in 9 cages built into the walls of the house near the city in Northern Ohio, the Huron County Sheriff's office said.The children had no bedding pillows or blankets, and the cages were rigged with alarms to prevent the children from opening the cages.The children told the authorities they slept in the cages 40 inches high 40 inches deeep at night.Doors to some of the cages were blocked with heavy furniture. The couple,Sharen and Mike Gravelle, are adoptive/foster parents for all 11 children, officials said prosecuters were reviwing the case but no charges had been brought.
thanks for that news story.
I do what I can to bring the news that others would rather avoid..what's your opinion on this disgraceful blot on america's muddy backside.
my opinion?
personaly i think it's bad. i mean what's the world coming?
first hurricane catrina now this?
That's totally messed up. I can't say anything about my country in general, but I know those parents especially don't deserve to adopt anymore and hope they won't. I couldn't believe it myself when I heard this on the news. I'm just glad they were caught and hopefully those children are or are going to be placed with better families.
Leilani
Exactly. However,those who adopt children often live 2 lives, to the world they are angels in private feckin monsters. And the adoption services remain blissfully aware often until its too late.I shudder to think of the psycological damage inflicted on these children.
Feck! Katrina was a natural disaster that could not be averted, this could all have been prevented if psychological testing had been done on the prospective parents.Get a grip SG.
Yeah. Well, I've heard that at least with some adoption programs, they can go to check out the adopter's house. At first I wouldn't have liked the idea of that, being that I feel I would know how my house should be, knowing I'd have children staying there. but now it's people like that dumb couple who have made me realize why that's done. I wonder if they had a person over to their house before they were allowed to adopt? Probably not, or they were very good about keeping the cages hidden. I wonder if they could be made to get rid of the cages too, because they obviously had to have had all this figured out before they even adopted.
Leilani
Yes, I believe seriously that people need to do more extensive background checking on people who are willing to adopt children. If I found out that one of the personal assistants on our registry was being that cruel to a consumer, I'd have their ass in one of those cages or whatever manifestation of cruelty, have it right back on them.
disgusting! .. just wonder how long they were undiscovered by the authorities?! :(
i don't think we'd have news like this if people didn't criate it in the first place.
Medolica, Tinkerbell and Rd I agree I just wonder how many other abusive adoptive parents we will hear about in the future, we must have affirmative action now, to stop this inhumane treatment of innocent children
I can't believe such cruelty has happened. I know it's all over, but it repulses me to think that someone could do that to children. I agree that they should spend some time in cages themselves.
hmm ordinarily I would agree Bashful but if you copy their behaviour, you are lowering yourself to their dispicable level...I hope some kind of charges are brought and the adoption agencies are investigated openly.
Oh my gosh that is horrible. How cold-hearted can one be? They should be kept in prison for ever. The people who did that I mean.
I agree but so far no action has been taken the police ect seem to assume, that its ok to cage autistic children as they can be violent? I think that demonstrates the intellectual level of the average Ohio policeman..
Oh yeah, perfectly okay!!! Somebody should talk to those deaf policemen and wake them up. I hate that.
Absolutely but as the children were otherwise well cared for, the police have deemed caging as an adequate way to restrain disturbed autistic children, feck knows, what the children have learned from this.
Yeah well and what about the agency dealing with youth? Have they been involved?
I have no idea Insele, the details of this case are very sketchy, I got the feeling that there might be a cover up.
Well okay then, I have nothing more to say to this *smiles*.