Six children, apparently malnourished, found in Kenmore

The Akron Beacon Journal ^ | May 1, 2003 | By John Higgins and Andale Gross

[mabelkitty]

Three Kenmore boys told authorities their mother locked them in a closet since Valentine's Day until they escaped this week through a second- floor window.

Allegations of the boys' abuse were detailed Wednesday in documents for a Summit County Juvenile Court hearing to determine if the boys and their three siblings should remain in the county's custody.

According to the complaint:

``Their mother and her partner... created a substantial risk of serious harm to their health, safety and well being by treating them like prisoners, locking them in a closet for over three months, with little food, no light and no exercise, torturing them by making them eat cat and dog feces and vomit, which caused the children to be severely ill, as well as physically abusing them.''

The complaint presented to Judge Linda Tucci Teodosio by the county Children Services Board alleges that the six children, ages 6 to 14, all appeared to be malnourished.

One child, who is 8, weighed only 28 pounds, according to the complaint, and was admitted to Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron. Another sibling also was hospitalized, said CSB spokeswoman Louise Miller. She expected both children could be released as early as today.

The agency has received numerous abuse allegations about all of the children for several years, but never opened a case, Miller said. The last time CSB visited the Florida Avenue home was in February.

``There have been a number of calls,'' Miller said. ``Over the course of their lives there were calls.''

The children were living with their biological mother, Mary Rowles, and her partner of seven years, Alice Jenkins. Akron police are investigating the allegations. However, no charges had been filed as of late Wednesday. The women couldn't be reached for comment.

Authorities based the complaint on interviews with the children.

Police received reports Monday that three boys from the home were wandering in the streets, wearing sweat pants and T-shirts but no shoes or socks.

The oldest boy told authorities he had gotten rags from a garbage can and wrapped them on his feet because they were sore from walking without shoes.

The boys said they ran away from home because their mother and her partner had locked them in a closet for months, letting them out each day for dinner only.

They said the women blocked the closet door with a dresser when the boys were inside. The closet was always dark inside, was hot and smelled of urine and feces.

When police arrived at the home to remove the other children, they found the 6-year-old boy locked in a bedroom that smelled of urine and feces.

The children also told authorities they suffered beatings, according to the complaint.

Two of the boys reported that their mother's partner forced some of the children to hold the 10-year-old boy down while she kicked him in the groin with steel-toed boots after she accused him of urinating in the closet.

In November, CSB received a report concerning the welfare of the children, but nobody visited the home until February.

Three of the boys have been placed in a foster home and the two boys in the hospital will join them. The girl is in a separate foster home.

The next court hearing is May 23. At that time the court will determine whether the children have been abused or neglected. It's unclear whether the social worker who visited the home believed an investigation should be opened. The agency requires workers and their supervisors to make that decision together.

Miller said the agency should have acted before this week.

``There are things that should have happened that didn't happen,'' Miller said. ``Now that we know what is currently going on, we'll be able to keep the kids safe. We should have been able to pick up on things sooner.''

[mabelkitty]

Cleveland media not reporting this at all.

Many complaints, but the case was never opened.

Why would Socialist Guv'mint workers allow this.

[steveo]

This is sick on many levels.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

May God bless these poor little children, and see that justice is metted out in the fate of the mother and her partner.

[Pete]

Why would Socialist Guv'mint workers allow this.

Does this answer your question?

The children were living with their biological mother, Mary Rowles, and her partner of seven years, Alice Jenkins...

[ican'tbelieveit]

Well, because these "parents" were doing exactly what the social government wants them to do. The lesbian couple was raising a brood that will rely on the government for the rest of their lives.

Now, if you were a heterosexual married couple, instilling morals and values in your children, they would have opened that case in a heartbeat.

[JennysCool]

When I saw "Kenmore," I thought they'd been found in a washer! Thank God that's not the case.

[annyokie]

At least they are alive. Remember the little girl in PA a few years ago whose parents starved her to death and threw her body in the woods? Their other children were well-fed.

Some people are just nuts.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Disgusting people...

[Diddle E. Squat]

Cleveland media not reporting this at all.

Jesse Dirkhising

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Unbelievable, that's all I can say. Prayers for the children.

[Mo1]

One child, who is 8, weighed only 28 pounds,

Good Lord .. 28 pounds

Give me 5 minutes with these POS and I'll kick the daylights out of them

I will never understand how some people can be so evil

[Catspaw]

One child, who is 8, weighed only 28 pounds

OMG. That poor child. She should weigh two or three times that.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Six children, apparently malnourished, found in Kenmore...

Washer? On spin dry?

[BossLady]

"It's unclear whether the social worker who visited the home believed an investigation should be opened. The agency requires workers and their supervisors to make that decision together."

Like the agency and the workers have done anything thus far......

This makes my blood boil..... GGGGGGRrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

[AmericanInTokyo]

Shiro gomi.

One thing I have learned about life in general and about sick people in particular:

"Hate yourself enough, and you'll have plenty of hate to disburse to others, especially those much weaker than you."

Prison time and floggings are in order.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Read my #15 to partially find out 'why'.

[VRWC_minion]

Obviously an out of control state looking to steal the kids for the big federal dollars.

[tutstar]

ping

[nicmarlo]

Now, if you were a heterosexual married couple, instilling morals and values in your children, they would have opened that case in a heartbeat.

And God forbid what would have happened if you swatted them when instilling those morals and values.

[The Old Hoosier]

When I saw "Kenmore," I thought they'd been found in a washer!

Yeah, I thought it might've been a refrigerator or something.

[AppyPappy]

If they intervene, people complain. If they don't intervene, people complain.

[The Old Hoosier]

They said the women

WHY DO WE HAVE TO READ 3/4ths OF THE WAY DOWN THIS STORY BEFORE WE FIND OUT THAT THIS IS A LESBIAN COUPLE ABUSING/TORTURING/STARVING CHILDREN??!!!

That only adds to the OUTRAGE of this whole thing. Judge Moore in Alabama was right. Those who live a lifestyle contrary to nature should not be given the chance to abuse children.

[My Favorite Headache]

outrage does not begin how I feel

[John O]

Further proof that homosexual ALWAYS equals child abuse

[Aggie Mama]

My 30 month old daughter weighs 28 lbs. :(

[FITZ]

How are they having those kids????? Partners for 7 years and one of those kids is 6??? Where are the dads? If a fertility clinic is the dad, then it should be sued ---there should be some kind of screening I would think ---these kids are human beings.

[The Old Hoosier]

Further proof that homosexual ALWAYS equals child abuse

I don't know if you're being facetious. In fact I think it does mean that. The deviant example and lack of a true family that "homosexual parenting" causes a child to be subjected to is roughly the moral equivalent of what these two did physically.

[ppaul]

Her "partner".
Yeah.

[ppaul]

Two of the boys reported that their mother's partner forced some of the children to hold the 10-year-old boy down while she kicked him in the groin with steel-toed boots...

Classic bull-dyke.

[ppaul]

fyi

[Renegade]

I thought they were found in a refrigerator .

[I'm ALL Right!]

You are so right! If this "couple" were a Fundamentalist Christian family, the article would have lead with "The children of a radical Christian family were found malnourished and abused, according to authorities..."

[jimt]

The punishment I'd like to see the "mother" and her "partner" get can't be posted on FR !

[spunkets]

They wouldn't be malnourished then, unless it just contained beer.

[OldEagle]

These people give lesbians a bad name.

[workerbee]

WHY DO WE HAVE TO READ 3/4ths OF THE WAY DOWN THIS STORY BEFORE WE FIND OUT THAT THIS IS A LESBIAN COUPLE

What, are you implying that there's some media bias in favor of lesbians? Tsk tsk.

[John O]

I am drop dead serious. Any exposure of children to homosexuals (or other sexual deviants) is child abuse. Homosexuals always abuse children (even if it's just destroying the image of the family as it should be). And of course homosexuals don't reproduce they recruit.

I see homosexual behavior as the symptom of the disease SAD (Same-sex Attraction Disorder) which is far more hazardous to this country than SARS ever could be. SADs should be quarantined and treated. SAD is curable (because SAD is causable)

[flamefront]

Nothing seems to have happened to the girl. It appears to be case of lesbian hatred of males since only the boys were abused.

[cspackler]

Hmmm.. could be a hate crime, huh? Yeah right, that would never happen.

[conservababeJen]

or that they made a POINT to not call them LESBIANS. "Partner" is so much more PC.

[conservababeJen]

My 30 month old daughter weighs 28 lbs. :(

My 20 month old weighs 27lbs :/

[JoeSchem]

Why would Socialist Guv'mint workers allow this.

All the more ironic, considering how many false charges of child abuse are levelled out there. Let's hope this example is an exception and not the rule.

[Delbert]

I though Lesbians made great parents? But what would Rosie say?

[Delbert]

Found in Kenmore, that is pretty funny!

[Marysecretary]

I agree. It kills me every time I hear of a gay couple adopting a child. I know a couple of them and it's really sad. It just corrupts the child after a while, even when they're well treated. They have no concept of what marriage, true marriage, is really all about. Sad, sad, sad.

[scripter]

This is a really sad. Thanks for the ping.

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[cgk]

Why would Socialist Guv'mint workers allow this.

THIS is why: The children were living with their biological mother, Mary Rowles, and her partner of seven years, Alice Jenkins

Yes, children need mothers AND fathers. The gov't workers didn't get involved because both "parent-figures" were women.

[cgk]

I agree, and re-stated it before I saw your post.

[cgk]

Amen!