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Eleven Children Found Caged in Ohio Home
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Posted on 09/12/2005 8:18:35 PM PDT by jmc1969

WAKEMAN, Ohio - Sheriff's deputies found 11 children locked in cages with alarms in a north Ohio home, and prosecutors are looking into possible charges of abuse and neglect.

The children, ages 1 to 14, were in nine cages in the walls of a house outside this city of about 1,000 about 50 miles west of Cleveland, according to the Huron County Sheriff's Office. They had no blankets or pillows, and the cages were rigged with alarms that sounded if the cages were opened, Lt. Randy Sommers said.

The children told authorities they slept in the 40-inches-high by 40 inches-deep cages at night. Doors to some of the cages were blocked with heavy furniture.

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To: jmc1969

I cannot say what I would like to see happen to these people that would lock up children like this.


21 posted on 09/12/2005 8:30:37 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (Almost everything I say is a joke. When you give me that look, it WAS A JOKE.)
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To: jmc1969

I'm familiar with the concept "Mommy and Daddy are tired", but I think this couple set a new standard.


22 posted on 09/12/2005 8:31:00 PM PDT by RichInOC ("The coffee is strong at Cafe du Monde, the doughnuts are too hot to touch..." Save the Big Greasy!)
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To: jmc1969
...possible charges of abuse and neglect...

YA THINK?

23 posted on 09/12/2005 8:33:37 PM PDT by Jhensy
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To: jmc1969

I would think that foster parents were checked out a little better than this...


24 posted on 09/12/2005 8:36:17 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: Nov3
I hardly think foster children would be allowed to be home schooled.

We have friends that have foster kids and they can homeschool their own 4 children but the foster kids have to attend the public school. It has something to do with state laws.

25 posted on 09/12/2005 8:36:31 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: Cedar

.."possible charges of abuse and neglect."


I had to read that twice and im still not beleiving it was stated !


26 posted on 09/12/2005 8:36:33 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (secus acutulus exspiro ab Acheron bipes actio absol ab Acheron supplico)
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To: jmc1969

Foster care system gone awry.


27 posted on 09/12/2005 8:37:39 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: Lizavetta
Why do I get the disturbing thought that these will be classified as "homeschooled" children?

But...if humans are just a more complexly evolved animal - why does it offend so much?

oh that's right, we as humans are fearfully and WONDERFULLY made in God's image and as such should treat and be treated to a higher standard.

Stories like this just about push me over the edge.

28 posted on 09/12/2005 8:38:24 PM PDT by justche (No one can go back and make a brand new start, any one can start now and make a brand new ending)
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To: jmc1969
This is insane. . .

How about a picture of the house. . .in a neighborhood - people maybe 'thinking' something strange - or is did this family live in total isolation?

Will we hear they had been investigated for possible child abuse multiplie times. . .but some Lib social worker kept losing the files; or imagining things not bad here. .

What has really happened here; beyond sick, bain-dead; drug-mind-adults in charge of children. . .

A reality with all the attributes of really bad fiction. . .

Did they ever need a plumber. . .an electrician?

No visiting in-laws?

29 posted on 09/12/2005 8:39:36 PM PDT by cricket (.Just say NO U.N.)
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To: Lizavetta

Well, I knew what you meant.


30 posted on 09/12/2005 8:41:14 PM PDT by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: jmc1969
looking into possible charges of abuse and neglect.

I'd hate to think the authorities were rushing into things without thinking it through........
sarcasm off
this kind of thing makes my blood boil and I don't need to be anywhere near those so called "foster parents".
31 posted on 09/12/2005 8:45:05 PM PDT by Rose of Sharn (I get the best answers when i talk to myself!)
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To: jmc1969
Why do I get the disturbing thought that these will be classified as "homeschooled" children?

Huron County Prosecutor Russell Leffler said the children had various disabilities, including autism.
They were special Ed. That's usually covered by the state, too, in order to collect social security payments for them.

32 posted on 09/12/2005 8:46:40 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: xrp

Where is Bush????

He doesn't like caged children!!!!

/sarcasm


33 posted on 09/12/2005 8:47:08 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: jmc1969

Must be pretty high on the dem pecking order to get 11 @ $1500/mo each.


34 posted on 09/12/2005 8:48:31 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

HO booooooooy. Someone needs to watch the watchmen, capisce?


35 posted on 09/12/2005 8:50:18 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: Lizavetta
Next time I'll make the sarcasm a little heavier for your benefit.

Maybe you ought to - I went to regular school.

36 posted on 09/12/2005 8:50:24 PM PDT by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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To: Lizavetta
Why do I get the disturbing thought that these will be classified as "homeschooled" children?

Just what is this supposed to mean?
37 posted on 09/12/2005 8:50:53 PM PDT by publana
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To: cricket
From further down in the article--

......A children's services investigator saw one of the children in a cage Friday, Sommers said. The sheriff's office obtained a warrant and returned to the house that evening and removed the children.

....... County Prosecutor Russell Leffler said the children had various disabilities, including autism.

There must be a special place in Hades for these two.

How come it took so long for children's services to catch this?

38 posted on 09/12/2005 8:51:09 PM PDT by Tarheel ( Murphy's law #21--Internet flame wars are started by two cats who did not like their supper.)
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To: cricket

On their coffee table... "The Compleat Works Of Edgar Allen Poe."


39 posted on 09/12/2005 8:51:15 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: Lizavetta

You'll have to make it heavier for mine, too. I also put the emphasis on the wrong words. Sorry.


40 posted on 09/12/2005 8:52:28 PM PDT by publana
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