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"4 children taken from ‘inhuman’ home; Mother, 27, held; locked boy in attic" by Brian R. Ballou and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | August 1, 2009
LOWELL - Police investigating an anonymous tip Thursday discovered a naked 5-year-old boy, covered in feces, locked in an attic where the only window was nailed shut and the temperature had climbed above 100 degrees, police said.
The boy’s mother, 27-year-old Kristin Paquette, whose second-floor apartment was buried in so much trash that officers could not see the hallway floor, told police she locked the boy in an attic bedroom because she could not control him and he would “interrupt [her] cleaning,’’ according to a police report....
A single mother of four, Paquette pleaded not guilty at her arraignment....
Related (see FLASHBACK at bottom of page)
And see if you can stomach this sick swill if you haven't puked yet:
But Paquette’s father, Alfred Paquette, who attended her arraignment, defended her, telling reporters afterward that she was overwhelmed with the challenges of being a single mother and having a special needs child.
“My daughter is not an evil person like they tried to make her out to be,’’ he said. “She has a child that needs special help.’’ He said his 5-year-old grandson has a chronic lung disease, suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and acts “like a child on steroids.’’ His daughter, he said, is struggling to raise a 3-year-old daughter and three sons, ages 5, 6, and 9, with little assistance from their fathers....
Yeah, don't you feel sorry for her?
Kristin Paquette pleaded not guilty.
So how many drugs is the kid on?
Of course, taxpayers are paying for and supporting this immoral conduct as we are looted out the other end, right?
Officers said that when Paquette opened the door to her apartment, “the odor of feces and urine became almost unbearable,’’ and that as they walked to the attic “the hallway was completely filthy, and the floor could not be seen because of the spoiled food, trash, and clothing that were lying on it,’’ according to the police report. Hundreds of flies were swarming around a stained mattress on the floor, the report said.
I can't understand how people are living like this.
When Paquette unlocked the door to the attic, her son was standing there naked, covered in feces from head to toe, crying to “go downstairs,’’ the report says.
Shades of Abu Ghraib, no?
Police asked how long the boy had been in the attic, and Paquette “replied with a very nonchalant manner and tone, ‘maybe an hour or so; I’m not too sure,’ ’’ according to the police report. Human feces throughout the room, including finger markings along the wall, appeared to have been there a considerable amount of time, the report says.
And MY LANGUAGE is a problem, huh?
The boy also had several bumps on his forehead, the report says. Alfred Paquette said his grandson “comes down late at night and throws food around, and he fights with his brothers and he bangs his head against walls.’’
Paquette’s uncle, Richard Paquette of Lowell, said: “For her to lock him in his room isn’t unusual,’’ Richard Paquette said in the courthouse hallway yesterday. “People lock their kids in their rooms all the time.’’
Alfred Paquette, who lives in the Niagara Falls, N.Y., area, said he had been at his daughter’s apartment earlier Thursday when he picked up the 9-year-old to take him to a Red Sox game, and the 5-year-old “just came downstairs and he was fine. There was absolutely no problem....’’
I don't know what is making me sicker: the self-denial or the s***-covered kid in a room covered with s***.
He disputed police allegations that the apartment was in deplorable condition. “The house wasn’t neat and tidy, but shouldn’t have been condemned,’’ he said.
But Lynn health director Frank Singleton said city health inspectors condemned Paquette’s unit Thursday because it was filled with feces, vomit, and trash.
Paquette’s boyfriend, Marcus Wilson, who lives with her and is the father of her daughter, defended her in a brief telephone interview last night, saying: “She’s a good mother. I leave my daughter there with her, and I wouldn’t even think that she would harm her.’’
She's NUTS but a GOOD MOM!
Wilson, 27, said he had left the house for an hour Thursday to play basketball and returned as the police were taking the children away. He said Paquette had just put the 5-year-old in his bedroom “until she finished doing the dishes, and then she was planning to give him a bath and take him to the park after she finished.’’
In what, exactly?
He disputed allegations that the apartment was filthy and said the window was nailed shut because the 5-year-old “kept opening it and throwing stuff out.’’
The incident was not Paquette’s first brush with the law. Two days after Christmas 2004, she was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after a live-in boyfriend told police she stabbed him in the arm during a heated argument. The case was initially continued without a finding, while Paquette was placed on probation and ordered to take anger management classes, according to court records. The case was closed in 2006.
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They Died in Each Others Arms
Because the STATE FAILED to "protect" them!!!!
Acia and Sophia Johnson, killed in April in an arson fire, weren't even supposed to be living with their mother.
Yet DSS will be knocking at YOUR DOOR if someone makes an anonymous call!
And yet,
"Social workers never realized the children were living at the South Boston house even though the workers repeatedly visited them there, and even though their mother reported they were living there when she applied for food stamps, cash assistance, and housing subsidies."
But they DIDN'T KNOW!! Pfffft!
Oh, this item is a heart-ripper!
"State's errors detailed in deaths of two sisters" by Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | December 19, 2008
The state agency responsible for children failed at the most fundamental levels to save the lives of two South Boston sisters who survived years of neglect in a home torn by drug addiction, violence, and emotional dysfunction only to die in one another's arms in an arson fire in April, an investigation by the state's new advocate for children found.
Oh, the FEAR, TERROR, and HORROR those BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN MUST HAVE FELT!!!!!
Social workers from the Department of Children and Families who visited repeatedly documented neglect of the children, but failed to stop it, the investigation concluded. Caseworkers failed to perform even rudimentary checks with police or other agencies whose information would have clearly signaled trouble. The department's internal records were so poor, the probe found, that officials failed even to "connect the dots" of the information they themselves had collected. Those failures allowed the plight of 14-year-old Acia Johnson and 3-year-old Sophia to go unnoticed, the investigation found.
"By leading lives involved with drugs, crime, and violence, the parents exposed their children to the violence of other people with similar behaviors," Gail Garinger, the child advocate and a former juvenile court judge, concluded in a summary of her report, released yesterday after a six-month investigation. "However, DCF also missed opportunities to recognize the dangers to Acia and Sophia, and to intervene."
The girls died when a fire, which officials say was set in a jealous rage by their mother's lover, swept through the West Sixth Street row house where they lived. The children lived there with their mother, Anna Reisopoulos, even though state social workers had determined five years earlier that she and the girls' father, Raymond Johnson Sr., were unfit parents and gave custody to a grandmother.
Execute him. These are the kind of people we don't need around.
Social workers failed to sufficiently document incidences of neglect by the parents dating back to 1995, the investigation found, and the agency did not interview other people involved in the children's lives who could have shed light on the dangers they faced.
"This was really a systemic failure in this case," Garinger said in an interview yesterday....
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Social workers never realized the children were living at the South Boston house even though the workers repeatedly visited them there, and even though their mother reported they were living there when she applied for food stamps, cash assistance, and housing subsidies. The home was also listed at Acia Johnson's school as her primary residence.
The department would eventually document cocaine use, violent domestic fights, and bizarre incidents, including one in which Acia's father left the girl on the side of the road and led police on a car chase after a traffic stop.
In all, social workers investigated roughly a dozen complaints of abuse and neglect in as many years, including two in the months before the fire. Last February, Sophia Johnson was found wandering outside, alone, on a cold winter day.
Excuse me? A BABY was WANDERING AROUND OUTSIDE on a COLD WINTER DAY?!!!! Excuse me?
On March 14, just three weeks before the fire, Reisopoulos chased her son Raymond into the backyard with a hammer. Social workers, notified by police, were called to the scene but took no immediate action....
What, would he have had to bash the kids skull in to get a reaction?
You guys just picking up a check, aren't you?
Yup, that is your STATE GOVERNMENT PROTECTING KIDS!!!
And THEY WANT to give them all SWINE FLU SHOTS?
Also on the front page:
David Ortiz said Thursday that he was “blindsided’’ by the news that he and Manny Ramírez, whose booming bats led the Red Sox to their historic 2004 World Series title, had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.
But both players, along with more than 100 others who tested positive, were notified years ago by the players union that they were on a list of players seized by federal authorities along with the test results, according to a landmark report on doping in the sport and testimony by the union chief.
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Oh, so BIG POOPIE is a BIG SHOVELER of you-know-what, America!
Is there NO ONE who DOES NOT LIE TO YOU?
Then it is the usual crop of divisive, agenda-pushing garbage and insults:
"Yesterday he said his diagnosis is an argument for universal healthcare. Thanks to the excellent insurance plan available to all members of Congress, he said, the free annual physical revealed the illness in its beginning stages. “That annual physical can make such a difference,’’ he said."
Of course, YOU KNOW WHO PAYS for it all, taxpayers -- while YOU ARE DENIED the SINGLE PAYER PLAN YOU WANT!!!!
"National Guard jets chased the plane after it overshot its destination. The fighters stayed with the plane until it crashed."
So WHAT HAPPENED on 9/11 then?
You guys MISSED FOUR of 'em in ONE DAY?
"UFO"
PFFFTTTT!
That's IN the NEWSPAPER, not here!!!!!!
Truly, what more is there to say?
I waved it over the Boston Globe and look at what happened:
"gay marriage"
And again, if you didn't get the point:
"gay marriage"
Good for them!
"Gates case puts focus on city’s leadership; Mayor, city manager power roles in question"
I thought that was supposed to be cooling down and going away?
"abortion"
And then they have the nerve to feature this: ‘Free Fun Fridays’ a hit with families
"toilet flooded"
Gee, they sure have a fixation with s***, don't they?
Must have been the fat kid, huh?
"The big, fat truth about Americans"
Honestly, I'm sick of that agenda-pushing lie, too!
"Vermont says moose doesn’t belong at farm"
Pffft!
"church abuse"
No, not that that kind.
"a sweeping federal corruption probe that resulted in the arrests of 44 people, including rabbis and dozens of public officials."
Related: One-Day Wonder: Israel's Organ Harvesting Operation
Am I wrong?
“Even if wealthy people lose money, they have money to spend’’
"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner praised the nonbinding vote requirement"
"The Commerce Department’s figures yesterday, which included benchmark revisions to past years, showed that GDP has tumbled 3.9 percent since the second quarter of last year - the biggest drop since quarterly records began in 1947. GDP has fallen four straight quarters, the longest ever.
Slump in economy is slowly abating"
"work harder.... no one to blame but themselves."
"More signs of recovery in Mass."
“I don’t think we’re done at all’’ with the recession, said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates Inc. in Wayland. But, he added, “the mixed results do indicate that we’re not in free fall any more.’’
Not in FREE-FALL like a WTC TOWER the morning or afternoon of 9/11, right?
Also see: The Fake Recovery
Sick of the INSULTS and DIVISIONS, yet, America?
Then let's peer into the future and give you some LYING WAR PROPAGANDA to cap it off!
"The discussion about guns marred otherwise positive trends in crime, including a 24 percent drop in homicides compared with this time last year.There have been 29 homicides through July 29, compared with 38 homicides at the same time last year. Rapes and attempted rapes are up 9 percent, to 150, but aggravated assaults, robberies, and burglaries have all seen dips.
--A call to curb a lethal trend--"
Notice that ONLY the RAPES are up?
Smell a GUN CONTROL AGENDA, do you?
The COPS PLANTING these weapons and saying they "found 'em?"
And the cops want more firepower on the street, cui bono?
"The guns have surfaced as Boston police have pushed to provide more of their own officers with M16s, high powered semiautomatic rifles."
WtFU, America!!!
Military planning for possible H1N1 outbreak The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus — the swine flu — this fall, according to Defense Department officials.
"Have you been made aware of the massive roadblock plans to stop all travelers for a vaccine bracelet (stainless steel band with a micro-chip on board) that will force you to take the shot? Refuse it? You will be placed on a prison bus and taken to a quarantine camp. What will you do when your children are NOT allowed into school without the shot? What will you do when you are not allowed into the workplace without the vaccine paperwork? Buy groceries? Go to the bank? Shop anywhere?? Get on a plane, bus or train? Use the toilet in the mall? Nope."
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Have you heard about it in the Globe or AmeriKan MSM? NOPE!!!!
"come under fire over alleged abuses of detained protesters"
Not us, 'murkn.
Also see: The Boston Globe's Iranian Insult: When Irish Arms Are Open
"The mosque was seized by Iraqi security forces more than a year ago, and they used it as a base....
Are you EFFIN' KIDDING ME? No OUTRAGE over that as compared to "insurgents," eh, s*** MSM?
Meanwhile, the State Department said it was investigating reports that three US tourists have been detained by Iranians while hiking near the border in the self-ruled Kurdish region in northern Iraq."
Translation: The Iraninas GRABBED SOME of our SPIES!!!!!!
They are calling OUR NON-OFFICIAL COVER AGENTS "tourists" now, huh?
In the Kurdish area?
Related: P.J.A.K.
M.E.K.
"US officials vowed to protect them after the 2003 invasion of Iraq"
"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." -- George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
Turns out we are the terrorists:
Are you READY for ANOTHER WAR, AmeriKa?Actually, it is hard even reading a newspaper after reading just this site because you realize that it is filled with nothing but lying, divisive, obfuscating, agenda-pushing, enemy-creating, war-promoting, Muslim-hating, Zionist war propaganda no matter what the article, what the issue.
P.S. I must admit I am a little anxious about signing out; what will be here when I sign back in?
