Posted on 07/19/2006 1:28:03 PM PDT by presidio9
A Torrington man and his girlfriend have been charged with risk of injury after a 3-year-old boy was found locked in a room in their home with a broken arm.
Police said the boy was forced to stay in the room for a month as punishment for swearing. He was allowed to leave only to use the toilet for a bowel movement. A 20-ounce soda bottle was provided when he had to urinate, according to the police report.
The child's father, Jeremy Lacey 29, and his girlfriend, Mistee Lee Lemons, 27, were charged with three counts of risk of injury to a minor ordered held on $150,000 bonds. They are scheduled to return to court on August 2.
The boy and seven other children in the home were taken into state custody.
The boy told police he hurt his arm trying to climb on a milk crate to open the door.
He was found Monday by a neighbor, who told police she went into the apartment after seeing several children hanging off a second-floor balcony.
Jenny Loomis told the Register Citizen of Torrington that when she unlocked the bedroom door and saw the boy with a bloody lip and cradling his swollen arm, she was devastated.
"I was shaking and it took everything I had not to cry about what I was seeing," Loomis said.
"When I opened the door and told him he could come out, he looked around and said he was not allowed to talk," she said. "I thought something has to be done."
The child's fracture appeared to be at least 15 hours old, according to the police report.
The children told police the couple also forced them to balance books on their heads as punishment, and would spank them if a book dropped.
she had 5 childeren he had 3 with another woman
Too quick. Too easy. They should get as good as they gave.
You reap what you sow.
dont worry about arguing who will get him now cause im sure bubba in jail will be the first, then coming from someone that might know him personaly will definitly take care of that dimented waste of skin of a thing they call a man.
this dirtbag was never like this when we were together, just goes to show you people change, so you should shut your mouth, im under a friends screen name by the way
i guess you have nothing else to say, cause obviously you have no clue about nothing,
Sorry, I don't buy it, but I'll try not to pile on the guilt you must already have.
well if we must go into details, you must know i havent seen or heard from my boys since march, i have joint custody of my three boys, jeremy ran from newyork where i reside and left me with no address or phone numbers to reach him, i have been to the courts to file a petition against jeremy but with no address he couldnt be served.he has only been dating mistee for like 6 months and she never let my kids or jeremy contact me, so as far as you going off on me you you can get off yourself cause i do care very dearly how would you feel knowing your kids were being treated like animals i want so much revenge like everyone else. jeremy never acted like this when we were together my kids were treated with the best,but i am doing something honey because im sitting here in CT. thanks to a friend from CT. who is helping me out with the info on what happened last week, i swear i didnt know, there are still good parents out there, and i hope they get everything they deserve and when is all done jeremy hopefully will never lay eyes on my boys again.
Why do children's services consistently seem to leave children in clearly dangerous homes, while a single accusation of abuse from a third party will have them going over a good middle-class home with a fine tooth comb faster than you can blink?
She was doomed from the start.
i would like to say she was doomed after i punched her dimented little skull in
Parents, please don't give your daughters stripper names, especially misspelled stripper names with the dreaded "Lee" or "Wayne" addendum.
How old are your three kids?
Excellent post. Thank You for your service to your community.
the oldest will be 9 soon then the middle is 7 and the baby will be 4 soon
I hope you will be reunited soon!
I would have loved to see that. Video proof is so nice to have. :-)
Good job.
The adult losers in the main story need to be cleansed from the gene pool.
How about 'child abusers'?
thank you so much i honestly believe it will help with our healing process, and for me and my boys to go home and start fresh so they can have good lives again
i completely agree, wish i could turn back nine years ago and see into the future, about the monster i chose to have kids with
You think? These people are monsters.
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