[lastchance]

I can hardly wrap my mind around the awful things that this boy endured.

I do wonder though if his mother and the women who she gave custody to and who later so horribly abused Kyle were lesbian lovers. And if this women was in a sexual relationship with the other couple in that house. Because in the back of my mind is a little niggling remembrance that says there have been several high profile cases of lesbian lovers torturing children in their care.

[rfreedom4u]

Numerous cases for the death penalty.

All the abusers mentioned here do not deserve to breath the same air as human beings.

[caver]

“Studies show as many as 15 percent of children in wealthy nations are physically abused by guardians each year”

I stopped reading right there. When an article starts out with madeup BS numbers the rest of it is BS too.

[lewislynn]

I remember when we had lots of trains it was called a train wreck.

[agere_contra]

According to a study published Tuesday in the British medical journal The Lancet

Ah the Lancet.

I begin to see why numbers like 15% are being thrown around - the Lancet has long since become a comic, with its ludicrous medical statistics being the running joke.

[marsh2]

From 2000-2002 In California, there were 68.6 per 1,000 emergency responses per 1,000 population under the age 18 for child endangerment/abuse.

[Psalm 73]

Satanic.
Anyone who does not believe that Satan and his minions prowl the earth looking for who they can devour are severely deluded - and people are NOT basically "good at heart", but most are ego-centric as well as capable of extreme cruelty.
This is why we need a Saviour.

[Malacoda]

One reason is a lack of faith in the public welfare system by doctors and others who might suspect abuse but do not report it because they fear foster care would be worse for the child,

Gee, why would anyone lack faith in a system so utterly broken and completely morally bankrupt?

[GOPJ]

The circumstances of intense abuse vary and cannot be boiled down to a single cause, she said, though researchers say there are common risk factors among abusers. They include mental illness, a history of abuse and dysfunction in their own childhood, stress, lack of education, substance abuse, poverty and an absence of social support.

Often these are people who sexually get off on torturing the innocent.

I'm sorry if they had problems when they were young ( and I kind of doubt this - it has the feel of "liberal lie") - but when someone tortures a child, they should be put to death by the state. There's no reason to have a death penalty if these types of monsters can't be put down.

The main cause of this type of abuse is evil - old fashioned evil.

[Cheesel]

this is incredibly sad. Unfortunately, it is all too common. The social services department in my state is really overburdened with cases. I feel terribly sorry for the kids and sorry for the social workers as well. The ones I have dealt with as a foster parent were terrific, but overworked. They are also underpaid, I think, for the work they do. As for the foster parents—ones that do their jobs right don’t make anything.

We don’t value kids in this society. We pay criminals who are pro athletes millions of dollars a year for what? To catch a ball. Yet, when it comes to kids who needs help, we pay what? A small fraction of that to social workers and they are the ones who’ll make a difference.

There are tons of good foster parents out there—straight and gay, but they don’t make the news.

I would like to tell people that there are about 500,000 of foster kids in the US. There are about 100,000 kids in foster care waiting for permanent, loving homes. If you care about kids, please consider helping out at:

www.adoptuskids.com

http://www.mtwyouth.org — This organization provides job training to kids who are aging out of state care in Massachusetts—they give a hand up, not a hand out.

http://www.mareinc.org/

[TChris]

When the reality became clear, some staff members went to another room to weep, out of sight of the boy who crawled into a fetal position under a desk.

The sane mind cannot even comprehend it...

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

The case has caused public outrage and raised questions on what causes some to commit atrocities against children. Also baffling is the allegation that Kyle was singled out in a house of five children — police reports indicate Lau and Schumacher's four children, who are in protective custody, appear relatively unharmed — and how the suspected abuse could go unreported for so long.

My heart goes out to this poor boy. His older brother Austin was also in the "care" of these monsters - I heard him interviewed on the radio last night. He lost touch with his younger brother a year or two ago and was very worried about him. I wish I could help these boys. My son is between the older brother and the younger brother's ages. I could cry just thinking about these boys.

The other children are going to be just as traumatized by this whole nightmare as Kyle is. They do not understand why one child was singled out to be abused. They never knew if their turn was coming at any time. They never knew what reason there was to treat another child so brutally. They will all need intense counseling to recover, and will likely feel either terrible guilt all their lives, or callous disregard for others' feelings. It's a horrible situation.

I wish I could take Kyle in and care for him properly and show him the love he needs. God bless him and protect him. His older brother Austin is in his 20s and wants to adopt his younger brother. I hope he does. He knows what Hell Kyle has been through. Poor kids!!