Sickening Story of an Ohio Mother
May 23, 2008
I remember this story from 2005 and just read the update this morning. This is the story of the Ohio couple that kept their children in cages like animals. I remember feeling very angry when I first read about this story. Well, now I feel repulsed.
A mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for keeping her 17-year-old adopted son caged in her home.
Brenda Sullivan pleaded guilty in January to three counts of aggravated child abuse. Prosecutors agreed to drop lesser child neglect charges.
The teen weighed 49 pounds when child welfare workers found him in 2005 in what appeared to be a cage. Sullivan told a judge at the time that Ohio authorities told her to keep the boy, who had severe medical and emotional problems, in a crib.
“There’s only one conclusion when you look at the medical evidence in this case, and that is that she literally starved him,” prosecutor Julie Schlax said.
Two other children, 13-year-old twins the Sullivans adopted as infants, both testified they were kept in similar cages.
Sullivan’s husband was also arrested, but died in January 2007 while awaiting trial.
This truly is an unjust sentence as her lawyer claimed. The unjust part is that the woman does not spend the rest of her life in a cage herself. Twenty years is far too short.
More Evidence of a Media Bias
May 23, 2008
Here we go again. I was browsing several news articles online and came across one titled, “What Does Hillary Want?”
Interested in reading this article, I was not so surprised to see this blaring photo of Senator Clinton.
So here we go again…more sexism and bias from our traditional main stream media.
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