ohio couple busted keeping kids in cages

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5277832,00.html

At night, authorities said, eight of the children were confined in wooden cages stacked in bedrooms on the second floor. The cages were painted in bright colors, and some were rigged with alarms that would send a signal to the downstairs when the door was opened. One cage had a dresser in front of it.

The cages, made of plywood and wiring, had mats but no pillows or blankets. The house smelled of urine, according to the search warrant.

The Gravelles have said a psychiatrist recommended they make the children sleep in the cages, Huron County Prosecutor Russell Leffler told the Norwalk Reflector. The parents also said the children, including some who had mental disorders, needed to be protected from each other, according to court documents.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I honestly don't know WHAT to think about this. As a parent, I'm absolutely appalled, but then, my kid is HEALTHY and no psychiatrist has recommended I keep HIM in a cage.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I doubt a psychiatrist would tell them that, it's probably just an excuse.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I would assume there are "hick" psychiatrists out there.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Or a Sc1ent0l0gist plant.

― pr00de, where's my car? (pr00de), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Maybe they read A Modest Proposal and didn't realize it was dark humor?

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

haha

What I imagine happened was, maybe, POSSIBLY the psychiatrist recommended using SOME METHOD to give the children their own personal space so that they might not have violent interactions with the other children, and the parents were like "woohoo c'mere $250 bucks per kid per month, let's build us some cages and go to Disneyland!" or something.

I think it's pretty ridiculous that the state would let these people adopt ELEVEN children AT ALL, much less not send case workers to check on their progress.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Seriously! why the fuck would anyone adopt 11 kids unless they intended to start a kid-dogsled team or some such.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Especially if you're someone who kind of obviously doesn't like kids.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

The kids were behaving badly so they made them go in the naughty cage til they had calmed down.

― , Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

oh great, "People Under the Stairs" in real life...

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0213,lerner,33407,1.html

... She would thrash, shake, and gasp for breath as her psychiatrist, a 73-year-old named James Watt, held a mask to her face and began administering the combination of gases that was supposed to help her recover repressed childhood memories.

http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20010128rebirthnat3.asp

...Jeane and Candace made national news in April after Candace was smothered during an unconventional "rebirthing" exercise conducted by unlicensed Colorado therapist Connell Watkins and three of Watkins' aides. The April 18 exercise involved wrapping Candace tightly inside a blanket in a simulation of a baby curled inside a birth canal.

― when "psychiatrists" attack, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm reminded of the recent ILE thread about children. These parents may have been ILXors!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

hahaha, kid-dogsled team...
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But god, people can be crazy and stupid and cruel. At the same time! And still think it all justified somehow. I wonder if the psych was like, "Cage" them with LOVE! And they were like, CAGES! OKAY! Metaphor retardation, an all too common disability.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

We gun name our keed Nicklas Cage, hyuck hyuck.

― The Cage Family, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/us/ohio-captive-woman/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

ohio is messed up imo

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:54 (twelve years ago)

We've really got a thing about keeping people captive I'll grant you.

― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:23 (twelve years ago)

Also zoo animals iirc

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:28 (twelve years ago)

"There are so many lies going on,"

― how's life, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:18 (twelve years ago)

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