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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 11:53 PM
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Kids Survive Alleged 5-Year Imprisonment
RENO, Nev. - Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong says he's amazed by the survival of two emaciated children who say they were locked in an apartment bathroom and starved for the past five years.

When the siblings were found Thursday, the 16-year-old girl weighed about 40 pounds, and her 11-year-old brother weighed about 30 pounds. The pair were in stable condition Sunday at a hospital, while their grandmother, mother and the mother's boyfriend were in jail.

"The little girl appeared to be a Holocaust victim," Furlong told The Associated Press. "There's no meat or muscle whatsoever. We're talking absolute starvation. It was the same thing for the little boy."

Deputies were led to the home after someone reported seeing an 8-year-old girl pushing a shopping cart full of food within a block of the sheriff's office. It turned out to be the 16-year-old girl, who told deputies she was running away because she had been locked in a bathroom at night or when adults left the apartment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060123/ap_on_re_us/children_imprisoned

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Fountain79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 11:55 PM
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1. My God....
I hope there is a special place in hell for people such as that.....
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 01:30 AM
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11. NO SHIT:
as the father of two of the most beautiful people to ever grace this earth, (my boy and my daughter), I can not see how ANYONE could EVER do this to children. I know that there are alot of DU'ers that are against the death penalty, even I can't see the sense of it most of the time. But to do this to children, the only true innocents on this planet, all I can say is FUCK EM. And yes, I would do the deed myself and have NO regrets. The only thing that is sacred in this world is our youth
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sojourner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 01:39 AM
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12. well...locking them in a room and letting them experience hunger might not
be such a terrible sort of justice...for one thing it might make them aware of the suffering they themselves inflicted.

still, i don't endorse the death penalty on principle of the gov't inabiity to guarantee it never executes the innocent. also think it sets a bad precedent as to the value of life. also due to the fact that the quality of justice is more easily measured by the size of one's bank book than the evidence at trial.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 11:56 PM
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2. The adults should be locked in a bathroom and starved
For much, much longer. What in the hell is wrong with these people??
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f-bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 11:58 PM
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3. Most likely these adults were GOP fundamentalists!
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Fountain79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 11:58 PM
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4. They are just evil...
Evil knows no party line...
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 11:59 PM
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5. I hope the alleged caretakers of hese young people are locked up forever
No mercy for people like that. None. Murder is heinous, this may be worse. These kids have to live with this forever. Congrats to that young lady for having the moxie to stay alive. Guess the survival instinct is stronger than the evil things who tried to kill them.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 12:05 AM
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6. Words fail me....This is simply ncomprehensible.....
I canot imagine the evil these people represent.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 12:06 AM
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7. Oh my gosh
:( Those poor kids! How did they survive for five years?
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 12:07 AM
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8. my 9 yr old son weighs 85 lbs
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 12:12 AM
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9. I'm also baffled by the 3 fed, healthy and schooled kids who said nothing
What a weird situation.
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sojourner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 01:41 AM
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13. dollar to donuts that survival instinct stronger in these kids than
any "loyalty". in fact most likely brainwashed to believe that the suffering kids 'deserved it, brought it on themselves'.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 12:15 AM
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10. It's just one hideous story of abuse after another.
That poor girl in NY beaten to death. Another little girl beaten into a coma.
Why do these stupid bastards keep on having children?
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 01:46 AM
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14. Senator Kerry authored the "Masha Law" bill based on this child's
torture and abuse....

Bill lets adults sue over child porn
By Cheryl Wetzstein
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
December 22, 2005


Adults whose images have been used for child pornography on the Internet will be allowed to sue for damages under bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate this week.
The bill, dubbed "Masha's Law" for a Russian orphan who was sexually exploited by her American adoptive father, also would boost civil damages from $50,000 to $150,000.
"It's really a sad statement that we have tougher penalties for downloading music than for downloading sick images of infants and children," said the bill's author, Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051221-110643-9621r.htm
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 02:04 AM
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15. omg
:puke::grr::cry::nuke:
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