http://www.shreveporttimes.com/html/80FB2564-5233-4ABB-BBCE-2466EF2A5503.shtml
Words can’t express the horror humans are capable of. I first heard of this story when my father was ranting in the car last night. I thought he had possibly seen a story about the Tampa case on the Shreveport television news and confused the location. So I researched and found that it was indeed a seperate case.
WTF is wrong with these parents and caretakers,
children are the best to come into anyone’s lives. If it’s too much of a bother, or they do not want to take care of their kids, then give them up to a relative, who will take care and love them.
One thing that continues to confuse me about these two cases (and also one here in Texas, it’s been two summers back I believe) - all 3 cases of starved children locked in closets and abused - is that none of these babies was an “only child”.
In all THREE of these cases, there were other siblings involved who were well-fed, healthy, and presumably not abused.
WTF?? Is there some psychology behind this? I thought abuse was about “anger management” issues - and thus would think that abuse woud be divided fairly evenly among all children. How alone these babies must feel, to know that they must be bad bad bad children, and that it must be just something about them because their brothers and sisters don’t get treated like this. God, that part makes me want to cry even more - the physical issues are bad enough, but the mental issues are incomprehensible to me.
And, also, in all three cases, there was another (adult) partner with passive involvement. In the Texas case, it was the mom abusing, the stepfather being inactive. In Tampa, it was the stepfater, with the mom sitting by. And in Shreveport, it was two female partners (looks like the males living there are not believed to be involved).
I can understand if it’s a single parent with a young child - it would be relatively easy to hide that child from the world, I’d think. And even with brothers and sisters - we know how easily children are threatened and conditioned not to report abuse. But FOR GOD’S SAKE - there was another adult in each household CONDONING this abuse. And don’t give me that “I was afraid of him/her” BULLSHIT. Because it won’t fly - I hope to hell all three of these “partners” are charged with SOMETHING for letting this happen.
Seems like about once every couple of months or so I hear about something like this happening.
And yes, it sucks. Makes me glad my parents are pacifist, loving people.