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They Fuck You Up, Your Mum & Dad

OK it doesn't quite fit the category because the mum was being equally badl abused but it seems like behaviour from the father guaranteed to screw the lad up:

Bizarre and brutal abuses alleged

Friday, 6 February 2004

A FORMER Warrnambool man forced a young mother-of-two to eat cow manure, drink motor oil and sleep outside her bedroom window, a jury was told yesterday.

Graeme Slattery, 42, also made the woman's young son sit in a car for at least three hours wearing spraypainted sunglasses that blocked his vision and dig a cement pole out of the ground with a small garden spade while he watched, a jury was told.

Crown prosecutor Peter Faris QC, addressing the jury for the first time in the Ballarat County Court, said evidence would show Mr Slattery subjected the woman and her two children to "brutal and violent conduct".

"This is a case that you might find strange or even bizarre," he said.

"It's a case of ... systematic brutality which turned her into a slave who did whatever he told her to do."

Mr Faris said Mr Slattery met the victim at a Melbourne hotel in September, 1996, and the pair started dating.

He said Mr Slattery told the victim he lived at Frankston with his sister, who was really his wife.

Mr Faris said the alleged abuse started three months later when the victim's Narre Warren house was burgled.

Mr Slattery struck the woman on the leg with a fire poker, punched her in the face and hit her with a broomstick so hard that it broke, he said.

Mr Faris said Mr Slattery's treatment of the victim reached a point where he controlled "what she wore and what she ate".

He said Mr Slattery told the victim to invest 00 in a diamond ring, which she never received, and later stripped her home of all its fittings.

In a recorded interview, the victim's son said Mr Slattery had flushed his head down a toilet, poured water on his head while he was in bed and forced him to drink water while lying on the ground "like medieval torture".

"On cold winter days, he would make me go out the back and spray me with the garden hose for no reason," he also said.
Mr Slattery has pleaded not guilty to 69 charges, including rape, indecent assault, intentionally causing injury and blackmail.
The trial, before Judge Graeme Crossley, continues today.

http://www.thecourier.com.au/detail...egory=general news&story_id=284132&y=2004&m=2

Words fail me they really do :(

Emps
 
Woman charged with burning daughter, locking her in cellar closet

Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Posted: 1250 GMT ( 8:50 PM HKT)



PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A woman was charged with beating her 7-year-old adopted daughter with a dog chain and keys, burning her wrists on a stove, dousing her naked body with bleach, then locking the girl inside a closet in a coal cellar with a burning furnace filter, police said.

The girl was apparently not injured by the fire, police said. She was in stable condition at Children's Hospital Tuesday night.

Debra Liberman, 50, was arraigned earlier in the day on charges including assault with a deadly weapon, attempted homicide, and arson with threat of death.

Police said they were called to Liberman's home at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday ET after a neighbor reported screams coming from the residence. Police found Liberman's unharmed 4-year-old son.

Officers then moved a safe blocking a closet door and found the girl inside. Liberman had set fire to a furnace filter and placed it inside the closet with the girl, police said.

The girl told police the alleged abuse had occurred overnight.

Liberman's son is being cared for by another person, whom police didn't identify.

Liberman was jailed on
Woman charged with burning daughter, locking her in cellar closet

Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Posted: 1250 GMT ( 8:50 PM HKT)



PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A woman was charged with beating her 7-year-old adopted daughter with a dog chain and keys, burning her wrists on a stove, dousing her naked body with bleach, then locking the girl inside a closet in a coal cellar with a burning furnace filter, police said.

The girl was apparently not injured by the fire, police said. She was in stable condition at Children's Hospital Tuesday night.

Debra Liberman, 50, was arraigned earlier in the day on charges including assault with a deadly weapon, attempted homicide, and arson with threat of death.

Police said they were called to Liberman's home at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday ET after a neighbor reported screams coming from the residence. Police found Liberman's unharmed 4-year-old son.

Officers then moved a safe blocking a closet door and found the girl inside. Liberman had set fire to a furnace filter and placed it inside the closet with the girl, police said.

The girl told police the alleged abuse had occurred overnight.

Liberman's son is being cared for by another person, whom police didn't identify.

Liberman was jailed on $1 million bail. A preliminary hearing scheduled for February 20.
million bail. A preliminary hearing scheduled for February 20.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/02/11/child.cellar.ap/index.html
 
Parents swindle daughter

Av Ole Dag Kvamme og Carin Pettersson 11.02.04 10:31


She wanted to be nice and rented a car on her bankcard for her parents for the weekend. They thanked her by driving off to Spain, and dumped the bill on her.

«We have never experienced that parents swindle their daughter in this way,» said Hans Eivind Ekaas, manager at Avis Bilutleie in Kristiansand, to TV 2 Nettavisen. «This is a textbook example of how wrong things can turn out if you rent a car for someone else.»

The step father pleaded not guilty, but Krisitansand county court sentenced the mother and the stepfather of the 21-year-old woman to fines and jail for swindling their daughter.

Blacklisted
The story started June 27, 2002, when the mother and stepfather asked if their daughter could lend them her bankcard so that they could rent a car for a weekend.

Allegedly the truth was that the man was blacklisted for an old, unsettled matter. The case to a more serious turn when the parents did not at all took a little trip for the weekend, but took off to Spain.

According to the rent agreement, they had a driving limit of 200 kilometres. When Avis finally got the car back 17 days later, the limit had been exceeded with 7,423 kilometres.

Was not informed about Spain
The court is sure that the daughter had no idea of her parents’ plans. She desperately tried to get a hold of them, and she finally found them in Spain.

They finally came back after they had been threatened of being reported to the police. Back home a bill of NOK 20,000 (USD 2857) awaited them.

«It is a major ethical dilemma for us,» Ekaas said. «We usually warn people against renting for others, but how could she imagine this. We have never experienced that parents swindle their daughter. The daughter cried over her parents, but we had no one else to direct the claim against someone except her since she was listed as renter.»

Refuse to pay
The stepfather refuse to pay the bill, and the daughter reported both him and her mother for swindle. The man finally accepted a payment plan. The police later press charges against him.

Avis Bilutleie warns people against signing for other people’s loans. It is not a good thing to guarantee for a car for NOK 250,000 (USD 35,700), said Ekaas.

«In this case, I’m not so sure,» Ekaas said. «It was her parents, and how would you suspect something like this? I was shocked for several weeks afterwards.»

The 42-year-old stepfather was sentenced to 6 months in jail as a collected punishment for a former sentence, and the 40-year-old mother, who had no prior convictions, was sentenced to 30 days of suspended sentence. In addition, both of them have to pay court costs.

http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article185106.ece
 
Would this be Munchausen's by Proxy?

Kentucky Mother Admits Letting Children Eat Vomit & Cat Feces


A Kentucky mother accused of letting her young children eat vomit now admits she did it.

Louisville police arrested 22-year-old Sherri Carter last year after a six-month investigation into abuse charges involving her children.

At the time, Carter's boys were one and two-years-old when she now admits to serving them alcohol in their sippies, tying them to toilets and letting them eat human vomit and cat feces.

Carter and her two boys were living in a Louisville apartment when the abuse happened.

Her roommate, Timothy Hudson, is accused of taking part in the abuse. He's been offered a plea deal, but hasn't made a decision yet.

Carter's father is now raising the boys. Sherri Carter has to pay child support but cannot go near them.

Prosecutors want Sherri Carter to serve five years in prison. Her attorney wants probation. It's now up to a judge to decide.

http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1649596
 
No. She wasn't doing it to make them ill so she could play the brave mommy looking after poor sick children, or so she could rush in at the last minute to save them and so be the hero. She was just another, different, kind of heartless bitch.
 
Helen said:
No. She wasn't doing it to make them ill so she could play the brave mommy looking after poor sick children, or so she could rush in at the last minute to save them and so be the hero. She was just another, different, kind of heartless bitch.

In some ways that is even more depressing - I'll do a look around to see if I can find more on this case but I'll look into getting this moved into the "They f*ck you up your mum and dad" thread.

[edit: OK looked around and it looks like it isn't MBP - they are just thoroughly unpleasant people so I'll get this moved to the thread which deals with this kind of thing.

Some more news:

Woman, Roommate Feed Toddlers Cat Feces

One Child Ate Other's Vomit, According To Witnesses

POSTED: 10:07 p.m. EST November 7, 2003
UPDATED: 10:19 p.m. EST November 7, 2003

LOUISVILLE -- A pair of Louisville children were tied up, beaten and tortured by their mother and her friend, according to police.

Investigators have arrested Sherri Carter, 22, and her roommate, Timothy Hudson, WLKY NewsChannel 32's Abby Miller reported exclusively Friday.

According to police, the pair were arrested in May after an anonymous tip led investigators to their apartment. Now, nearly six months of investigating have yielded chilling accounts from witnesses detailing unspeakable abuse, Miller reported.

"We have reports that the 2-year-old evidently vomited at one point in time, and the 1-year-old crawled over and started eating the vomit," Crimes Against Children Unit Detective Jerry Huckleberry said. "The mom saw this and did nothing about it initially."

Witnesses also have told police that Carter fed both children beer, let them eat dog food and cat feces, and forced one of the children to sit on a training toilet for hours at a time, Miller reported.

Please follow WLKY NewsChannel 32 and TheLouisvilleChannel.com for updates to this story as they become available.

http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/2621649/detail.html

Local Woman Tells Of Cat Feces Abuse She Witnessed

Accused Mom Allegedly Wrote Vulgar Message On Son's Forehead

LOUISVILLE -- A local woman who called police about her abusive neighbor tells WLKY of the crimes the woman allegedly committed against her own children.

Judy Weinstein told WLKY NewsChannel 32's Abby Miller exclusively that she saw poor living conditions and neglect, but phoned police after Sherri Carter allegedly wrote a vulgar message on her infant son's head.

"'Bitch Boy' was written on this little 2-year-old boy's head by his mother," Weinstein said. "It just broke my heart. I was so angry."

Weinstein said the words were first written in pen by Carter, then allegedly made worse when Carter tried to rub them off, Miller reported.

"She called him in the room and with her finger, she tried to wipe it out and it burned it into his forehead, and it was on his forehead for days," Weinstein said. "It was burned into his forehead from the friction of her finger."

Weinstein said the image is what drove her to pick up the phone and dial the child-abuse hotline. The call led police to Carter's Louisville apartment. When they saw the conditions of the children, they had them taken to a local hospital. Meanwhile, more eyewitnesses came forward with thier observations of torture and abuse, Miller reported.

"One other report that was confirmed was that the 1-year-old actually went into a cat litter box and ate the fecal matter out of it," Crimes Against Children Unit Detective Jerry Huckleberry said.

The investigation into Carter and her roommate, Timothy Hudson, spanned nearly six months, Miller reported.

"We also have reports the 2-year-old evidently vomited at one point in time, and the 1-year-old crawled over and started eating the vomit," Huckleberry said. "The mom saw this and did nothing about it initially. I've also received reports the children have ate dog food."

Weinstein said she's glad the police finally stepped in, but added that she's curious why it took so long for authorities to finally look into the allegations that she first reported months ago, Miller reported.

"I will say that Child Protective Services did come did take the report, but I did tell them that I had pictures. I even called back and left messages, but no one ever contacted me after that."

CPS declined Miller's request for interviews. But one said off-camera that "bad judgment calls do occur. It's the story and the tragedies of CPS. We would hope those decisions don't amount to gross negligence to the children."

Carter and Hudson currently are behind bars, each held on ,000 bond, and each facing two counts of child abuse.

11th November 2003

http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/2628327/detail.html

Local Mom Admits Tying Toddlers Up For Hours

Woman Pleads Guilty, Will Serve Time

LOUISVILLE -- A local woman accused of serving alcohol to her young children and tying them to toilets admitted her guilt Monday.

Sherri Carter, 22, was arrested last year, after a six-month investigation into the chilling charges. Monday, she answered "yes" to numerous charges read by a Jefferson County judge.

"You served the children alcohol in their sippy cups," Judge Ann O'Malley Shake said in court Monday. "In addition, you confined each child for extended periods of time, causing redness and swelling to (your child's) wrists and redness and swelling to (your child's) buttocks. Are those the true facts of this case?"

"Yes, ma'am," Carter said.

WLKY NewsChannel 32's Abby Miller spoke exclusively with Carter's father, Rick Carter, who's been taking care of his two grandchildren in recent months.

"They still wake up sometimes, screaming from nightmares," he said.

Sherri Carter and her two boys were living in an apartment building on Tin Pan Alley at the time of the abuse, Miller reported. Her roommate, Timothy Hudson, also faces charges in the case because he allegedly took part in the abuse, which included allegations that the pair watched the children eat human vomit and cat feces, though Carter did not admit to those crimes.

"You and defendant Hudson barricaded both children in a room with miscellaneous items such as chairs, dressers and crib parts, blocking the door," Shake said.

Prosecutors agreed to let Carter plead guilty, but they want her to serve five years in prison. Her attorney is asking for probation.

"We object to probation at all times," prosecutor Stephen Keller said. "We think this type of condition demands prison time, and that's what we're asking the judge to give her."

Rick Carter said he doesn't know what to think about his daughter's plea, Miller reported.

"If you're wrong, you're wrong," he said. "She told me she'd never hurt her kids, but she admitted in the guilty plea that she did."

Carter also said he and his wife are raising the two boys, now ages 3 and 2, Miller reported. His daughter must pay child support, but isn't allowed to go near them.

"It's been pretty difficult having to deal with the mental problems the kids have gone through," he said. "The doctors think they're doing a lot better now. They're starting to come around, starting to act like normal kids."

Initially, Carter was charged with two counts of criminal abuse. Those charges were reduced to second-degree criminal abuse, and Carter was released on home incarceration pending her final sentencing next month.

Hudson, meanwhile, also has been offered a plea deal for his alleged role in the childrens' abuse. His public defender reportedly told the judge he's considering that plea, but isn't ready to make a decision.

16th Feb 2004

http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/2850893/detail.html

Thoroughly depressing :( ]

Emps
 
reporting in that I have my copy of Limehouse Nights under my elbow as I type...

thanks all!
 
I'm going to be sitting around a lot tomorrow so it's perfect timing really :)

Kath
 
Mon 8 Mar 2004


12:00pm (UK)

Mother Jailed for Whipping Son

By Melvyn Howe, PA News


A mother who left her son scarred for life with repeated whippings was jailed for a year today.

The 35-year-old secretary, who once worked for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, embarked on her two-year reign of terror because she thought the youngster was becoming “difficult”.

She once beat him so hard he could not go to school.

London’s Southwark Crown Court heard the teenager was frequently forced to lie on his bed as she attacked him with a doubled length of flex, often for hours on end.

Finally, he could take no more and called an ambulance, only for his mother to send the crew away.

When the desperate 13-year-old dialled 999 again, he asked for the police.

Officers not only found one hand severely swollen from a series of thrashings, but also discovered he had “multiple and extensive” bruising and scarring over much of his back.

Some parts of his flesh were still “red raw” from the more recent punishment sessions, said Karen Holt, prosecuting.

The woman, who lives in East London and cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted two counts of wounding, two sample charges of causing actual bodily harm, and one of cruelty between May 2001 and May 2003.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2622704

See also:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004110670,00.html

Emps
 
Posted on Tue, Mar. 09, 2004


Couple tie up 1-year-old child so they can go out dancing

Associated Press



BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - Police arrested a woman and her boyfriend on charges they used a bedsheet to tie up her 1-year-old daughter so they could go out dancing.

Carolina Pineda, 25, and her 24-year-old boyfriend, Oscar Sanchez-Lucas, were being held Monday in the Palm Beach County Jail on ,000 bail.

The baby's grandmother, Olivia Claros, arrived home shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday and heard her granddaughter, Hayli Nicole Claros, crying. A sheet was tied around her neck, arms and legs, according to a police report.

Claros said she found her daughter in the bathroom, preparing to go out. Sanchez-Lucas was waiting outside in the car. Claros said she called police after her daughter refused to untie the child.

Sanchez-Lucas was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse for allegedly tying up Hayli. Both he and Pineda were charged with aggravated child abuse for allegedly beating Hayli's 3-year-old brother, Andres, with a belt, and with child neglect.

Police and the state Department of Children and Families are investigating the case. In a hearing in court Monday, a judge ordered Pineda to take a class in parenting.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/8139618.htm
 
If you don't want your child why not just give it up for adoption? I just don't understand why some people breed they clearly don't want the children they keep bringing into the world.
 
This could be problematic. I for one have never met a mother who didnt think her kids a nusiance.

20/20 hindsight, eh?
 
If you don't want your child why not just give it up for adoption?

Perhaps the problem is that some of these people do want their child - as something for them to take their frustrations out on, to use as a scapegoat or to get off on exercising godlike power over.
 
Well I myself never planned on having children and thank God everyday that I have my daughter. But then I don't find it a nuisance that I can't go dancing on Friday night because I am a mom. I would rather stay home with her anyway.
 
HA: I don't know is it? The Gaurdian newsppaer (which publishes its weekly Guide on a Saturday) is notroious for its typos and so it is customary to not spell it right ;)

Anyway onwards:

Teen found dead in filthy Crystal Lake house

By Karen Jordan

March 11, 2004 — Police in the northwest suburbs are investigating the death of a teenaged boy. Officials found the body of a 15-year-old inside a home in Crystal Lake. He lived in the home with his mother and six other children and police say the conditions inside the house were not ideal.

Seamus Leonard, 15, was found dead at his home in Crystal Lake Thursday morning. Police say he was severely malnourished. He weighed just 23 pounds.

Leonard, who had cerebral palsy, was one of seven children who lived at the house at 820 Grandview. The boy's mother called emergency crews when Seamus stopped breathing.


Kathy Leonard
The other six children who were at the house were taken into protective custody. The mother, Kathy Leonard, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in Seamus' death and that charge could be upgraded as the investigation continues.

The other children seem to be in pretty good condition despite the fact that police say the living conditions were deplorable.

"Well, I don't know that I can describe it. I was at the scene, and I will tell you that it was extremely deplorable. Probably the worst I have seen in 27 years in this business," said Chief Howard Parth.

ABC7's Karen Jordan asked the officer what he meant by deplorable.

"Filth, clothing and items overturned in the house, litter from cats. There were things all over this house that you could barely walk in any one place," said Chief Howard Parth.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/031104_ns_crystallake.html
 
Sickening - I admire the police's restraint in not helping him an accidental fall (or two).

Published Thursday
March 11, 2004

Dad says he left toddler in filthy crib for month

BY TODD COOPER AND JUDITH NYGREN



WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITERS

Relatives came and went from the south Omaha house where police found a severely malnourished baby in a maggot-infested crib.

But Gary Malm Jr., 23, always said his children were upstairs napping, the grandfather of the 14-month-old boy and his two siblings said Thursday.

"As long as (Gary Jr.) has been in that house, I've never been upstairs," Gary Malm Sr. said.

The grandfather said that when the 3- and 4-year-old children stayed with him and his wife a couple of weeks ago, they seemed fine. The adults did not see the 14-month-old, Devon, at that time, said Malm Sr.

Nobody had an inkling that things might not be right with Gary Jr.'s young, struggling family, said the elder Malm.

Devon was hospitalized after police searched the younger Malm's home Tuesday. The older children have been placed in foster care.

The children's father told police he had given up caring for Devon, according to a police affidavit filed in Juvenile Court.

Gary Malm Jr. waived his preliminary hearing Wednesday and was ordered to stand trial in District Court on a felony child abuse charge. Judge Lyn White set bail at 0,000.

Officers went to 1709 S. 16th St. to follow up on a call from Child Protective Services. Once inside, they found two scenes that stood in stark contrast.

Police found the two oldest children, apparently healthy, playing in a well-kept basement of the home.

Then police went upstairs.

At the top of the stairs, they were hit by the smell of urine, feces and rotting skin, prosecutor George Thompson said Wednesday.

Devon lay inside a crib. Maggots, urine and feces surrounded him. He was unable to hold up his head. And he couldn't stand on his own because his legs were constricted.

The police affidavit said Gary Malm Jr. told police he hadn't bathed the boy, changed his diaper or taken him out of the crib for the past month. Authorities didn't say whether or how often Malm had given the child food or drink.

The toddler has been hospitalized with severe malnutrition.

He weighs 15 pounds - the average weight for a 4-month-old. That is 9 pounds less than the normal weight for a 14-month-old, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

The boy also has a large pressure sore in the middle of his back, prosecutors say.


Malm disputed the police account in court. His public defender, Gary Olson, said Malm handed the child to police.

Malm told the judge he didn't have a job.

A friend of Malm's who wouldn't give her name said the mother of Malm's children, Tiffany Hernandez, died in the past year, leaving him to raise their three children alone. His own mother died when he was 8.

The woman said she thinks Malm became overwhelmed.

"It's all a big shock," she said. "This isn't like Gary at all."

Malm has been convicted of marijuana possession and other misdemeanors.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=1636&u_sid=1031325
 
I loathe the human-race.

I worry, because I'm allergic to cats. I suppose I'll just end up a lonely old woman surrounded by ancient copies of UFO Magazine and the Fortean Times.

I'd rather kill myself than behave in the way some of these people feel compelled to do. Or I'd at least go to a Doctor first. 'Doctor, just before I do it, I was just wondering...is it healthy that I want to put my kid in a suitcase for hours before setting light to it? No no...you can be honest...':(

I've suffered from Mental Health problems in the past but at no stage did I think Oh its normal to want to kill yourself. I mean, if you get help first then you've nothing whatever to lose, have you?

I appreciate that some of these people live in isolated areas but as I said, I'd drive my kids to a neighbour, and then stick my head in the oven.
 
Chant: Its not just the sheer nastiness of the parents but the failure of any kind of support network - in that most recent report relatives came around but never saw the youngest child. Did they not think that was a bit odd - esp. as the father might have been depressed (and/or have other problems).

I'm afraid this isn't going to help you opinion of the human race (or mine):

Man accused of killing pet, threatening his children


By Jennifer Reeger
For the Daily Courier
Saturday, February 28, 2004


A Fayette County man faces numerous charges after allegedly killing the family dog, making his children clean up the bloody mess and then threatening to kill them if they told anyone, state police said.

Scot Richard Maust, 33, of 197 Turkeyfoot Road, Lemont Furnace, was arrested earlier this week for the alleged incidents, which state police at Uniontown said began Sunday with the slaying of the family's dog.

State police took statements from the four children. The children were interviewed on Tuesday at Kennedy Elementary School. Maust was arrested later that day.

He was charged with four counts of making terroristic threats, four counts of corruption of minors and one count of cruelty to animals.

According to a criminal complaint filed with District Justice Deberah Kula,the children told police that Maust shot the family dog, Bear Bear, in the basement of their home because the unspayed female had left the yard with a stray male dog.

"Daddy didn't want her to have more babies," one child told police.

The children said the whole family was crying and begging Maust not to kill the dog.

After shooting the dog twice with a .22-caliber gun about 1 a.m. Sunday, Maust told the children to go down into the basement and hug the dead dog, police said.

The children told police Maust made them clean up the blood with paper towels in the morning. "Maust told them that he would take them out of school and kill them if they told anyone,"
the affidavit states.

At least two of the children told their teachers the next day at school. Both children told police they were hit with a board when they got home from school for telling.

One child told police Maust told them to say that the dog had parvo virus or rabies if anyone asked.

Maust was arraigned by Kula, who imposed ,000 straight bond.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/uniontown/s_181978.html

Emps
 
Couple batters baby into coma to 'exorcise evil spirits'


OSAKA -- A baby is fighting for his life after his mother and her partner apparently battered him until he was unconscious to "exorcise evil spirits," police said Tuesday.

Police arrested the 22-month-old baby's mother, Kotomi Manda, 24, and her live-in boyfriend Masahiko Shibata, 20, on charges of inflicting bodily injuries to the baby and his 3-year-old sister.

Manda, of Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, was quoted by investigators as saying that she battered the baby, who has suffered brain damage and is currently in a coma, to "exorcise evil spirits" from his body, while Shibata reportedly said that he also attacked the baby to "make him sit properly."

Police said Manda and Shibata repeatedly punched the baby's legs and the back from Friday to Saturday. The jobless couple is also accused of burning the sister's back with a lit cigarette around March 10.

Shibata reportedly realized the baby had fallen unconscious on Sunday evening and brought him to hospital. Paramedics who took the baby to the emergency room found bruises on his body and reported the matter to police. Investigators found the injured girl when they searched the couple's home.

Manda is separated from her husband and had been living with Shibata with her three children since the beginning of this month, police said. (Wire reports, Japan, March 16, 2004)

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040316p2a00m0dm013000c.html

Why does the fact that they have burned their other child with a caigarette make my suspicious that they are using the exrcism as an excuse?

Emps
 
A report on a documentary - it is interesting that they have suggested the grandmother has something like MSBP and is inflicting psychological symptoms on the grandchild she is a guardian of. Although it is possible (if we believe the grandmother) that he is exhibiting some disturbing signs (animal killing is never a good sign) he seems perfectly fine when he is away from her influence at school:

TV REVIEW | 'A BOY'S LIFE'

Digging Up Surprising Roots Behind a Problem Child

By ANITA GATES

Published: March 24, 2004



Robert Oliver, age 7, is a problem child. He has killed several cats and dogs, his grandmother says, and has attempted suicide. As a result he is on Ritalin for attention-deficit disorder and BuSpar for depression.

Rory Kennedy and her cinematographer, Nick Doob, have come to Eupora, Miss., a tiny town with a median household income under ,000 a year, to follow Robert's progress. Their intention is to make a film about how social services programs affect the lives of American children living in poverty. But the resulting gripping documentary, "A Boy's Life," on HBO tonight, turns out to be about a wicked witch.

Ms. Kennedy, who dealt with Southern poverty in her first film, "American Hollow," about an extended family in Appalachia, is becoming quite a filmmaker. It is difficult to take your eyes off her subjects or their plight. It still seems important to mention that Ms. Kennedy is the youngest child of Robert F. Kennedy, and that she was born in 1968, six months after his death, but her professional reputation is growing and that fact may soon be considered incidental.

"A Boy's Life" first visits Robert at home, where he pounds on the floor and bangs his head against the wall. When someone mentions that his little dog is adorable, he replies, "But sometimes he can be a little devil and bite you with his sharp teeth." Robert does seem hyperactive, practically bouncing off the walls, despite the Ritalin.

Then the film follows Robert to school. He sings "My Country 'Tis of Thee" along with his classmates, he reads more than competently, he says "Yes, ma'am" to his teachers, and — can this be? — he makes the honor roll.

"I think what we've got here is two Roberts," his principal, Vicky Beckham, tells Anna Threadgill, Robert's grandmother, during a home visit. Anna is not pleased by the suggestion that her grandson's teachers can control him but she cannot, and she reacts with a veiled version of her deadly modus operandi.

When Ms. Beckham assures Robert that he has everything he needs for success, and specifically that he is intelligent and nice-looking, Anna responds immediately, taking on her grandson's voice: " `I'm good-looking, and all the kids are jealous of me, and they all call me ugly,' " she says. "But say, `I know I'm good-looking.' "

If this is Anna's good behavior for the camera, one shudders to imagine how she treats Robert when Ms. Kennedy and Mr. Doob leave. And you don't have to have grown up on welfare to recognize and be outraged by the pain that an emotionally abusive parent or guardian can inflict. Poverty and a culture that discourages hope only magnify young victims' helplessness.

When Anna mentions that her father was a full-blooded Comanche, Robert goes into his tough-guy act, saying: "Give me a bow and arrow. I need to shoot myself." His grandmother responds by handing him a pistol (unloaded at least) and then ridiculing him. "You can't even shoot Mamaw's gun," she says.

Robert and his little brother, Benji, sleep in the same bed with Anna, although the house seems to have enough space for other arrangements. When Robert wins a race with Benji, she declares Benji the winner instead and says, "Robert, you don't know how to run."

By the end of the film you have to cringe whenever Anna touches Robert. He cringes, too, thank goodness.

Robert's mother, Robanna Fason, was 15 when she became pregnant as a result of rape. She was running with a "bad crowd," she says. "They got me on drugs and some kind of something that made me where I didn't know what my name was."

Robanna doesn't take care of her children, she says, because she is sick. "I'll stand in the store for five minutes, and my legs go to hurting," she says by way of example of her condition, also mentioning pneumonia, seizures and thyroid problems. When she seeks medical attention, though, Anna ridicules and discourages it.

Anna has problems herself. Dr. Virginia Fee, Robert's state-appointed therapist, concludes that Anna has something like Munchausen syndrome by proxy, inducing symptoms of emotional illness in Robert. The film suggests that Anna despises him because his arrival destroyed Anna's dreams for her daughter. She had planned for Robanna to be a beauty queen and a model, even though Robanna, in her early 20's, is obese and missing several front teeth.

During the film the best thing that happens to Robert is that Anna goes into the hospital, and that leads to some changes. It is unclear exactly how ill she is or how much her mind is influencing her body, but when on her sickbed Anna promises Robert that she will see him again in heaven, it sounds like a threat.

A BOY'S LIFE

HBO, tonight at 7:30, Eastern and Pacific times; 6:30, Central time

Produced and directed by Rory Kennedy; Liz Garbus, producer; Nick Doob, co-director and director of photography; Charlton McMillan, editor; Joel Goodman, original music; Mark Bailey, story editor; Nancy Abraham, supervising producer for HBO; Sheila Nevins, executive producer for HBO. A Moxie Firecracker Films production.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/a...tml?ex=1080709200&en=f60303cfc3a1a467&ei=5062

Emps
 
Well hopefully the old b*tch will die and the daughter can seek medical help and the whole family can move on with their lives.
 
Well this seemed like a guarnateed way for your son to grew up wrong in the head:

Mom accused of stripping for son’s pals sent to jail

Friday, April 02, 2004

Associated Press

MERCER, Pa. — A woman accused of playing stripper at her teenage son’s birthday party last summer after plans to ride go-carts fizzled was sentenced to three to 15 months in jail.

Mercer County Judge Christopher St. John scolded Patricia M. Johnson, 35, of Hermitage, as he sentenced her yesterday in the July 26 incident. “I think you need to get a big message that this is totally unacceptable,” St. John said.

Johnson, who did not admit stripping for the 13- to 16-year-old youths, pleaded guilty last month to a misdemeanor corruption charge and furnishing alcohol to minors at a hotel about 55 miles north of Pittsburgh, near the Ohio border.

Johnson, her son, and three of his teenage friends met at a recreation center but found that go-carts they planned to ride were rented out, authorities said. Johnson then bought the boys beer and rented a hotel room, where she stripped and engaged in other inappropriate behavior, authorities charged.

Johnson acknowledged allowing the boys to drink alcohol and participating in horseplay with them. She also said her behavior was atypical and fueled by pills and alcohol.

http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040402stripp6.asp
 
Posted on Thu, Apr. 08, 2004


Necedah teen says mother forced her to wear electric dog collar

ROBERT IMRIE

Associated Press



MAUSTON, Wis. - A 17-year-old girl testified Thursday that her parents repeatedly made her wear an electric shock collar used to train dogs and how it hurt when it was activated to its highest setting.

Her mother used it the most to get her to clean faster or "if she didn't like what I was doing," Nicole Dobratz testified in Juneau County Circuit Court.

"She would keep zapping me until the battery needs to be recharged," the teenager said. "I would say 10 or 20 times. I was usually crying and fell to the ground. She would keep pressing the button or tell me to get up. It made me feel pretty bad."

Dobratz testified via video conference during the preliminary hearing for Troy and Lee Ann Miller, both 37, of rural Necedah. Troy Miller is Dobratz's stepfather.

Circuit Judge Dennis Schuh heard about four hours of testimony and adjourned the hearing until April 16. He must rule whether prosecutors have enough evidence to justify a trial. The Millers remained in jail.

The Millers are each charged with 15 felony counts: four counts of physical abuse of a child, four counts of mental harm to a child, four counts of child enticement, one count of possession of an electric weapon, one count of second-degree reckless endangerment and one count of false imprisonment.

The charges carry a maximum punishment of about 200 years in prison.

Dobratz and her 13-year-old half-sister, Amanda Miller, testified from another room in the courthouse because they did not want to face their parents in the crowded courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Stacy Smith said.

Dobratz testified she was hit in the face by her parents, forced to sleep in a dirty basement or next to a dog kennel and forced to drink a half-gallon of "sewer water" as a form of discipline.

Speaking in a steady voice with her head bent down, Dobratz said her parents hit her with their fists, a belt, a chain and plastic and metal pipes.

She held up her left hand, showing a partially disfigured thumb.

"My mother was hitting me with a stick once. I tried to grab it and missed and I got hit on the thumb," she said.

Prosecutors also introduced a picture of Dobratz showing a scar on her lip, which she said was from when she was punched in the face.

In an emotional outburst, the teenager said she hated her mother and stepfather for they had done to her the past three years.

"My parents would never do anything like this to my three younger sisters," she said.

The couple were charged March 17 after the girl, using the family's telephone, called a friend and asked to meet her at the end of the home's driveway, where she handed over a note alleging the abuse.

The friend gave the note to her mother, who alerted a school guidance counselor who called authorities.

In an earlier court appearance, Troy Miller's attorney told Schuh the stepfather "categorically denies" the girl's allegations. Attorney John Brinckman said the girl had a history of making false allegations.

Asked under cross examination whether she had a history of lying, Dobratz said forcefully, "I am not lying about any of this."

She acknowledged she had problems with her parents in refusing to do what they wanted, including going to school.

Dobratz said she had many verbal fights with her mother.

"I usually would start the fights," she said. "I usually never tried to hurt my mother in any physical way. I would never hurt my mother."

Amanda Miller testified she saw her parents hit Dobratz in the face, the arms and the legs, but also said she saw her sister hit her mother.

"Yeah, she hit my mother. They both were physical," she said.

Lee Ann Miller openly sobbed and buried her face in her hands when she saw her younger daughter on the television screen.

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/8388185.htm
 
Apr 9, 11:18 PM EDT


Teen Weighing 40 Lbs. Hospitalized in Mo.

By CHERYL WITTENAUER
Associated Press Writer

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A severely disabled 16-year-old boy weighing just 40 pounds when he was rushed to the hospital is at the center of a multistate investigation.

The boy, whose name was not released, was starving, dehydrated, appeared to be in shock and had bedsores, sunken eyes and protruding bones, said Ann Ricci, the emergency room physician who treated him at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis.

He had been airlifted there Tuesday from a hospital in Illinois, but is from Michigan, said Jill Manuel, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. He is mentally retarded, prone to seizures and has cerebral palsy.

The boy was transferred out of the hospital's intensive care unit Thursday night, and his condition has been upgraded from critical to stable and serious, hospital spokesman Bob Davidson said.

State investigators said the boy tested positive for marijuana and methamphetamine and that given his condition he could not have taken them without assistance.

The boy was traveling through Illinois on Monday with his mother and a 14-year-old brother
when he was taken to Good Samaritan Regional Health Center in Mount Vernon, Ill., Manuel said.

Someone from the hospital reported the boy to the department's hot line on Monday, and the agency initiated an investigation. The boy was airlifted and his family left the hospital before the state could interview them, Manuel said.

The tip provided a Chicago address for the family, "but when we investigated, it turned out to be a pizza parlor," Manuel said.

Manuel said the mother was apparently homeless, and had recently been in Texas, Illinois and Indiana. Investigators said the boy's father is a convicted sex abuser who cannot legally have contact with him.

The hospital has begun the "long slow process" of rehydrating and nourishing the boy, Davidson said. His mother, meanwhile, has left to be with family in Indiana.

Ricci would not offer any judgments on the family.

"Some families in crisis need help," she said. "The state and hospital social services are there to say, 'Let us help, let us take the burden.'"

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BOY_STARVATION?SITE=NJALT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

It seems like a screwed up fmaily that can't cope and have no safety net but the drugs found in his system.......?

Emps
 
Boy killed by father's dogs

Saturday, April 17, 2004 Posted: 1545 GMT (2345 HKT)


CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- An 8-year-old boy was mauled to death by his father's four pit bulls, and prosecutors were considering charges against the father ranging from child neglect to murder.

Roddie Philip Dumas Jr. was attacked in the fenced-in yard of his father's home Friday. Neighbors and a postal worker who heard the boy's screams rushed to the scene.

The boy's father, Roddie Philip Dumas Sr., 29, and his girlfriend, were inside the house but did not come outside until the dogs had already severely injured the boy, officials said.

"One had him on his neck. Two had him on the side. And one had him on the leg," said Edward Threatt, a neighbor. "They were pulling on him just like you do a rag doll."

A letter carrier threw his mailbag and then a wooden block at the dogs, which then ran away, Threatt said. But neighbors and police said the father then came outside and told the letter carrier to get off his property.

The boy was taken to a hospital, where he died.

After searching Dumas' home, police charged him with drug and firearms felonies.

Prosecutors were considering additional charges ranging from child neglect to murder, although a murder charge is rare in such cases. Police said they want to find out why the boy was unsupervised and whether the adults in the house heard him cry for help.

Dumas was in jail Saturday on a 3,000 bond. A message at the jail referred callers to a Web site and it was unclear whether Dumas had legal representation.

Animal control officers seized the four dogs. It was not clear whether the dogs have a history of violent behavior.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/17/fatal.mauling.ap/index.html

As well as the questions raise in the article one other one that occurs to me is why was he in there in the first place?

Emps
 
I hope when they take that dad to jail they put him in with the other prisoners... he might get a taste of what his son's last moments were like.
 
Mom Sentenced For Allowing Child To Eat Sibling's Vomit

Woman's Roommate Awaits Own Sentence In Case

LOUISVILLE -- She cried and begged, pleading with a local judge not to send her to prison, but Sherri Carter will spend five years in prison for neglecting and abusing her children.

Carter (pictured, left) pleaded guilty to the charges in February, several months after she and her roommate, Timothy Hudson, were arrested in connection with the abuse of her two children.

According to investigators, Carter and Hudson kept the 2- and 3-year-old locked in a closet for several hours at a time, gave them alcohol and allowed one to eat the other's vomit.

"I beg you for probation, your honor," Carter pleaded with Judge Anne O'Malley Shake. "I promise -- you will never regret it. What am I going to do?"

Carter was sentenced after Hudson pleaded no contest Wednesday, meaning he maintains his innocence, but acknowledges there's enough proof for a conviction, WLKY NewsChannel 32's Bill Alexander reported.

"The children, under (Carter's) care and (that of) Mr. Hudson, were bound, barricaded and at times beaten," prosecutor Steve Keller said. "The photos bear that out."

Carter said she knew she was wrong, and added that she was sorry for what had happened, blaming a lot of it on her own abused childhood, Alexander reported. Police and prosecutors said they were tipped off when they got a call to the state's abuse hotline about what was happening.

Hudson, who has agreed to a two-year sentence, reportedly kicked the older child in the head.

"Ms. Carter is taking responsibility for what's happened in this case," defense attorney Stephanie Willis said. "She is remorseful. She's not making excuses."

Prosecutors told the judge that prison time was necessary to show the community that such abuse can't be tolerated, Alexander reported.

Hudson will be formally sentenced May 25.

http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/3005869/detail.html
 
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