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richard-in-cincy

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We have been totally fascinated and following with rapt attention the sensational murder trials in Cincinnati. I've been looking at other national media and I haven't seen a word about it. Seems so odd since it was such a sensational and lurid event:. An autistic child in foster care was bound up in a blanket and duct tape, placed in a crib in a closet during 90F weather in August, shut in, while the foster parents left town for the weekend. When they returned, he was dead. They made excuses to child care services for missing appointments while they plotted how they were going to stage his death, and finally decided to take his body to the country to an abandoned house, put him in the fireplace, douse the body with gas, and cremate him. They even went back and filled their gas can up twice. They swept the remains into a trash bag, then drove over the Ohio River bridge at Maysville, KY, and tossed the remains over as they drove across the bridge. The live in mistress of the husband, in a plea bargain, squealed on everyone, although the consensus is she probably is the one that did it (she is the one who knew where to burn the body, took the father there, helped him clean up the remains, and drove the car as the remains were tossed off the bridge--yet she has a plea deal and is charged with nothing). The foster mother was sentenced yesterday to life in prison, the foster father (who had a record of physical abuse, mental illness, punching holes in the walls of the house they lived in that the foster care agencies somehow never seemed to notice) goes on trial next month.

It's just so awful and it's causing huge reforms in the foster care services in Ohio, such that it should be a model of what could go wrong for other states, yet, not a word. Seems the media is more interested in updating us on Britney's latest haircut.

Has anyone heard about this?

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=newsLizCarroll

 
Hi Richard- I heard about it because it is being tied in to something that happened locally last

week. An autistic child in a live in center for the developmentally disabled was on an outing and evidently had a behavior problem on the van. He was restrained by a staff member and stopped breathing. Staff continued their errands for another 90 minutes before returning to the center. They are charged with homicide. An investigation into "training practices" has been called for.
Maybe it's the older I get, the more cynical I get but there no longer seems to be any regard for human life. You're right- Brit and Anna Nicole get far more coverage.

 
How horrible!! No, haen' heard a word about it here - in So Cal, the big news,

believe it or not, is 1 afternoon of rain and taking us remotely at least twice per hour to the Kodak theatre, the site of the Oscars on Sunday, updating us on the red carpet, the festivities, the new "green" limos, the before Oscar lunch, the cntents of the "gift" bags, the after parties..... THIS is evidently what people in Southern California need to know!!!!

It makes me wonder if the folks you see in the grandstands waiting for the stars to parade by, have gone there just to escape the non stop media coverage of the "event"!!!!!!

 
NOT in AZ, but.. unfortunately Media sensationalism makes a numb to these happenings.

The horrors that poor little boy suffered breaks my heart, the prosecution, it appears, wants a slam dunk conviction, neat and clean but... The State office in charge should be held culpable and sanctioned especially the casemanager who should be brought up on charges for derlict of job and cruel indifference because of ignoring the tell tale signs ... Agencies are just too happy to have a placement regardless if it safe becaue they have too few homes to place foster children. I was a casemanager for many years for persons with disabilities and sadly this is all too common place, society does not put a value on such persons, I had to fight for my clients because their caretakers were: too young, inexperienced, and lacked empathy. I will pray for this little boy's soul.

 
Nothing of it in the Tampa Bay area nor have I heard it on Fox. There are so many horrible things

people do with children; locally we've had children held in cages, heads dumped in toilets to drown them.....I used to wonder why God would let parents like that have children; and people who love children and want them can't have them. I'm thankful now God never let me have any, they are a huge responsibility and returned love and care isn't guaranteed.

 
Yes, There was an article in our local paper. Horrible! Just don't count on the system to change. We

have had some sad things go on in New Jersey and still as far as I can see not much change in the system of care for children.

 
how anyone can things like that is just beyond my comprehension. no guilt,

no remorse.... it's unimaginable that people like this exist in the world.

 
It is appalling, that the national interest would be about a Famous Tabloid Queen and

a Self centered rich singer who shaved her head would be more news worthy than that of an autistic child, defenseless to help himself at the hands of cruel caretakers. Hard to understand but that is what the vast majority of the people are interested in, it makes me sick because the media is such a high influence on public opinion but would rather choose to make an issue of Anna Nicole Smith or Brittany Spears instead of the problem with the Foster Care Program, the plight of the disabled, the abuse and horrible death of an innocent child, and the lack of support by government agencies. I'm sure the government is happy about the turn of events, but me, we, as a society should be outraged, which I am and so are you.

 
This is so upsetting. Imagine the suffering of that little tike. I wonder if the world was this

sick 50 years ago or have we somehow created these people who do senseless things to innocents.

We had a case like this, in fact worse, in Canada last year. I think everyone was in tears every time they read about this little boy. He was kept in a room by himself, never allowed out to do anything, fed very little, lived in his own filth. He was about 4 I think. He eventually died of malnutrition. The cousin of the foster parents, I think, ended up as a witness against them, but the question kept arising....you knew about this and that makes you just as guilty; your obligation as a human being should have come into play.

This is such a similar story.

 
Nope, not a word. I'm not surprised, though.... living next to LAX, things happen

all the time that never get in the news - or even to the residents. One night last year there were black helicopters flying into and out of LAX all night in a constant stream. Have never heard what that was all about to this day.

Britney and Anna Nicole-type news is always at the forefront... forget about the actual news!

 
The depth of depravity that we, as human beings, can sink to is most vividly displayed...

...when we commit crimes against innocents.

How can some continue to believe that "inside all people are basically good"?

Michael

 
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