Teen Found Starving, Living in Barn, Family Members Arrested

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  1. Matt84

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    Authorities say a malnourished 15-year-old Oklahoma boy who survived by eating sticks, leaves and grass has been found living in a barn, and four members of his family have been arrested for child neglect.

    The Oklahoman reported Thursday that Lincoln County assistant District Attorney Adam Panter said the boy weighed 80 pounds (36 kilograms) July 12, when he was found sharing the barn with goats, rabbits and chickens.

    The teen is hospitalized.

    The boy's name and condition haven't been released. Panter says he could have died without medical attention.

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    Why did they allow a 15 year old boy to get to this point? What should be the punishment?
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Not enough information.
     
  3. Matt84

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    Many times it's a small child found in this situation, but 15?
     
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    When I was in my early 20s I was asked by some rich old ladies (steel mills) to build and develop and SPCA in our county. I thought I was pretty savvy.. But usually when the deputy would take me out to an animal complaint.. the children were in far worse shape. I never imagined such conditions could exist in my America.
     
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    Yeah that happens a lot.

    At least it wasn't a 9 year old and a 13 year old killed and stuffed into a freezer, and then the "parent" said she was happy to have done it.

    Such a horrible world.

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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Some people (probably) shouldn't have children.

    Sterilization of the unfit?
     
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    Just a personal story, I talked to an African American man who grew up in foster care. He told me he suffered terrible abuse from his foster parents. The husband would take him down to the basement, chain him to a metal drain pipe and beat him with a belt.
    He said abuse was fairly common among African American children living in foster care, and believed the social agencies looked the other way or didn't really care because the children were Black. A lot of these foster parents run child mills, where they take as many children in for the money, practically turning it into a business. It's not a lot of money, and to really properly take care of a child it probably costs a bit more money than the parents are compensated with, but these are bad parents that spend as little of the money on the child as possible. It's a really bad situation because there's a shortage of foster parents, especially African American, so all too often the children get stuck with whatever foster family will take them in.

    There was one story a while back where a TV show built a foster family a new house, so there'd be room for their five children. Shortly thereafter the foster parents used abuse to drive their children away.
    The children hadn't been about a loving family, it had just been a business all along, and now that the family had a nice new big house they wanted it all to themselves and didn't need any more money.
     
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    So sad.
     
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    Special place in Hell for these bungholes
     
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    The one on the left could be the main reason......
     
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    I guess there's no such thing as a handsome mug shot.
     
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    How dare you say that? They are Americans!!
     
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    I'm sorry but if you are 15 and can't figure out how to get out of a barn you probably deserve to be in there.

    Just saying.
     
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    Oh for GAWD's SAKE!


    ...….what a ASSinine thing to say....a child deserves to be tortured because he couldn't get out of a barn!!!

    Did it occur to your Christian brain that maybe he was locked in....and even if he wasn't you want this kid punished so horribly for not being able to leave!?

    Wow, wow......how NASTY!!!
     
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    I didn't read that he was locked in a cage or something, he was in a barn.

    lol

    Just not getting the sympathy on this one, sorry.
     
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    A crew cut?
     
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    I know this happens...however I have to tell you about a black couple I knew that fostered four children, one black, two American Indian, one white. The kids attended our church faithfully for years and grew from troubled youngsters (starting age 4-8 )to loving, studious, appreciative children. The couple adopted them when the oldest was 12...and these kids truely appreciate and treasure their family more then most.
     
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    Oh, I didn't know you hadn't bothered to read the OP before commenting (but it would be wise in the future to do so:

    """Authorities say a malnourished 15-year-old Oklahoma boy who survived by eating sticks, leaves and grass has been found living in a barn, and four members of his family have been arrested for child neglect.

    The Oklahoman reported Thursday that Lincoln County assistant District Attorney Adam Panter said the boy weighed 80 pounds (36 kilograms) July 12, when he was found sharing the barn with goats, rabbits and chickens.

    The teen is hospitalized.

    The boy's name and condition haven't been released. Panter says he could have died without medical attention."""
     
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    Um, he probably should have left the barn.

    Tell us, would you have stayed in there?

    lol
    I mean if like to eat sticks and grass then more power to you or you can walk down the road to the next farmhouse and get some help.
     
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    Some of these children don't really know that the bad way they're being treated constitutes 'abuse'. How would you know if that's all you had grown up with?

    They don't have knowledge or a frame of reference to compare the way they're living with other children living in normal families.
     
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  21. Matt84

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    I'm all for that.
     
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    Not a surprise really.
     

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