See what happens when there's not enough chocolate in the house for everyone?

[abcdefz]

see? (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/12/caged.children/index.html)

[Bob]

Police said no charges had been filed against the parents.

"Basically, the parents thought they were providing for the protection of the children from themselves and from each other," said Sommers.

"They thought there was circumstances with these children that warranted the cages at night," Sommers added, but he would not go into details of what those circumstances were.

christ

[enree erzweglle]

^^^I was about to quote the same bit. Why wouldn't they file charges? :confused:

I have a terribly hard time with crimes like this. I want to go in there and bring those kids here to live. :( :(

[wanton wench]

crimes like this make me want to drown the parents in chocolate til they can breathe no more!


and another thing........................
get those kids some chocolate!

[abcdefz]

I was thinking it was the same old child abuse story until, as I read further, it basically said the kids were okay, slept there only at night, and that it was for the good of the family at night to protect themselves from one another.... and no charges are filed.

Now I'm curious. Maybe I've been watching Buffy too much.

[little j]

its weird that kids are kept in cages.
weird.
weird.

[abcdefz]

Really?

It was the three by three part that kind of threw me. Growing up, we would've considered that roomy.































































hey -- that rhymed!

[little j]

hey -- that rhymed!

hahaha

i'd luck out and be the one that had to sleep behind the dresser.
:rolleyes:

see? (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/AR2005091300284.html)

At night, authorities say, eight of the children were confined in 3 1/2-foot-tall wooden cages stacked in bedrooms on the second floor. The cages were painted in bright, primary colors, with some rigged with alarms that would send a signal to the downstairs when a cage door was opened. One cage had a dresser in front of it, county sheriff's Lt. Randy Sommers said Tuesday.

[Freebasser]

Those parents weren't exactly box clever.

Stories like this make me feel cagey to say the least.

[like2_drink]

why 3 1/2 by 3..why that size.