"Teen says he was held in closet for years" by Associated Press | September 29, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY - A woman was arrested after her 14-year-son told authorities he escaped from a home where he’d been kept for 4 1/2 years, spending most of his time locked in a bedroom closet, police said yesterday.
A security guard at a National Guard facility in Oklahoma City called police on Friday after the teen showed up malnourished and with numerous scars and other signs of abuse, police Sergeant Gary Knight said....
What the hell is wrong with people?
He told police that scars on his stomach and torso were from where alcohol had been poured on him and set on fire. Other scars were from being tied up, hit with an extension cord, and choked. The teen told police he moved to the Oklahoma City area from New Jersey about 4 1/2 years ago after his mother was released from jail. Since arriving in Oklahoma, he said, he had never been to school....
Maybe that wasn't such a good idea, huh?
After police interviews, officers on Saturday arrested the boy’s mother, 37-year-old LaRhonda Marie McCall, and a friend, 38-year-old Steve Vern Hamilton, on 20 complaints each of child abuse and child neglect....
Knight said six other children living at the home were taken into DHS custody, but none showed signs of abuse....
I guess the boy was the white sheep of the family, huh?
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The sad thing is, one girl is already in the grave!
"Parent accused of abuse has record" by Associated Press | October 1, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma mother accused of locking up her 14-year-old son in a closet for 4 1/2 years was previously convicted in the death of her 2-year-old child in New York, investigators said yesterday....
Then WHAT WAS SHE DOING OUT of PRISON?!!!!!!!
Steven Reed, Bronx district attorney’s office spokesman, said the mother pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in 1996 and was sentenced to jail and probation. Further details about the case were not immediately known....
WTF?!!!!
Police began their investigation Friday after the teen, malnourished and covered with scars and bruises, went to a National Guard armory about a mile and a half from his home and told security guards he escaped and needed police....
That boy doesn't know how lucky he was.
He literally escaped with his life, didn't he?
