Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Letter to Santa leads to molestation arrest

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28245241/
A girl in Texas was innocently writing a wish letter to Santa and when her teacher read the letter it was discovered that the little girl (approximatedly 9 years old) was being molested by a relative. not only was she being molested but so was her sister! her wish this year was for the relative to discontinue this nasty act upon them!!! even worse, it is estimated that this molesting has been taking place for somewhere around 4 years! the man from the town of Pharr was arrested and could face up to 99 years of inprisionment for continuous sexual abuse of a child.

i believe this man should be convicted of this crime especially after having interviewed the child and reading her christmas wish. she obviously knows that this behavior was wrong and scary and it upset her enough for her to turn to Santa claus in hope for an escape! this is really one of the saddest christmas stories i have heard in a very long long time. hopefully the girls can have a wonderful christmas and the nasty child molester will be molested in jail.

Monday, December 8, 2008

California city shocked by shackled teen case

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28088907/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,462346,00.html

California city officials and child abuse experts are now questioning how the abuse of a seventeen year old boy could go undetected for well over a year. Tracy (which was once dubbed as the second safest city in northern California) is a simple middle class area. neighbors said they had seen the boy who looked rather skinny taking out the trash on occasion. and in that they sometimes questioned why he was not partaking in school. The boy said the former guardian was known to use baseball bats, belts and knives on the boy and also restraing him with chains. the boy was discovered to have stumbled into a gym behind the families home with a chained padlock on him. Michael Schumacher and his wife Kelly are accused of many charges, including torture, kidnapping and child abuse. The former guardian, Caren Ramirez, was charged with similar offenses.

i believe in this case there should be enough evidence to convict all three of the adults that took part in this and all the other children that have been placed in those homes should be removed immediately and taken to a pyschiatric care clinic to see what vile things may or may not have been done to them. there is no doubt in my mind that all of the adults should face 15 year plus sentences if not life sentences. Kelly has admitting that they all participated in the abuse, the torture devices have been identified, the boy is in safe keeping for now so the punishment should fit the crime. they deserve to be locked up.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Teen shows up bruised, chained at Calif. gym

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28014820/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460067,00.html
A teenager who was naked and wearing a broken chain around his ankle was found in the custody of gym owners. These people are now being questioned as to how they came into contact with the said boy. This boy approximately, seventeen years old, said he had fled from his foster home in Sacremento, California in persuit of finding his "real" family. On is journey he was captured and help against his will for what is believed to be over a year. In his state of mental and physical condition, the boy was brought to a hospital in San Fransisco. He was believed to have been held in Tracy (60 miles east of San Fransisco!!!) The couple who are in their 30's are only being questions and have not been charged or even arrested.

I don't really think the couple the boy was found with actually had anything to do with the boys capture, torture, or disappearance...due to lack of any evidence. when/if the boy regains mental ability to describe the trauma that had happened to him, we can make further conclusions. Until that point the main focus should be on getting the boy well, finding out why the boy ran away from his foster home (because only to find his real family sounds a little sketchy) and identify sex offenders in the Tracy area and continue to search for evidence in this bizarre case. My main question, is why did the boy run to a gym???