Eleven kids found in cages in home

LAM · 09-13-2005, 04:40 PM

Eleven kids found in cages in home

Couple denies abusing or neglecting children

WAKEMAN, Ohio - Sheriff’s deputies found 11 children locked in cages less than 3½ feet high inside a home, but a couple denied they had abused or neglected the children.

A judge on Monday put the children — who range in age from 1 to 14 and who have various disabilities, including autism — in foster homes.

The children were found in nine cages built into the walls of the house near this small city in northern Ohio, according to the Huron County Sheriff’s Office. They had no blankets or pillows, and the cages were rigged with alarms that sounded if opened, Lt. Randy Sommers said.

The children told authorities they slept in the cages — 40 inches high and 40 inches deep — at night. Doors to some of the cages were blocked with heavy furniture.

Sharen and Mike Gravelle are adoptive or foster parents for all 11 children, officials said. Prosecutors were reviewing the case, but no charges had been filed as of Monday night.

A children’s services investigator saw one of the children in a cage Friday, Sommers said. The sheriff’s office obtained a warrant and returned to the house that evening and removed the children.

The Gravelles do not have a listed telephone number.

A woman who identified herself as Sharen Gravelle’s mother but would not give her name said the children were happy in their new home.

“This year they have played and had fun and laughed like no other children have, which they have never been able to do,” she said.

At a hearing, the judge placed the children in the custody of the Department of Job and Family Services, and officials placed them in four foster homes, said county Juvenile Court Administrator Chris Mushett.

Appearing with a lawyer at the hearing, the Gravelles denied they had abused or neglected the children.

County Prosecutor Russell Leffler said the Gravelles claimed a psychiatrist recommended they place the children in cages.

The couple were reserved when deputies arrived at the house to remove the children, Sommers said.

“The impression that we got was that they felt it was OK,” he said.

Investigators believe nine of the children slept in the cages that were stacked two-high on the house’s second story. Two mattresses on a bedroom floor also showed signs of recent use, Sommers said.

One of the boys said he’d slept in the cage for three years, Sommers said.

Wakeman, with a population of about 1,000, is some 50 miles west of Cleveland.
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I would torcher those fuckers for about a month before I flew them down to South American and tied them up next to a giant colony of army ants so they could be eaten alive.

GSXR750 · 09-13-2005, 04:57 PM

Horrifying, to say the least. Poor kids.

Vieope · 09-13-2005, 05:12 PM

Maybe the parents meant for it to be more like unusual cribs than cages?

maniclion · 09-13-2005, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Vieope

Maybe the parents meant for it to be more like unusual cribs than cages?

LAM · 09-13-2005, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vieope

Maybe the parents meant for it to be more like unusual cribs than cages?

not a chance. here in the US people receive "x" amount of dollars from the state for each foster child. it's obvious they only got the children for the money. what I don't understand is that there is no system in place to monitor a person/couple, etc. that takes on such a high number of foster children.

something like that should never be allowed to happen

Vieope · 09-13-2005, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by maniclion

No!

Little Wing · 09-13-2005, 05:23 PM

and the answer of course is to give them to the same agency who thinks paying people to take in kids is a good idea. too many foster parents do it for nothing more than the money n that is when bullshit like this comes into play. assholes.

Vieope · 09-13-2005, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LAM

not a chance. here in the US people receive "x" amount of dollars from the state for each foster child. it's obvious they only got the children for the money. what I don't understand is that there is no system in place to monitor a person/couple, etc. that takes on such a high number of foster children.

something like that should never be allowed to happen

Now I get it.

gococksDJS · 09-13-2005, 05:30 PM

What the hell is wrong with some people...

Tough Old Man · 09-13-2005, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by LAM

Eleven kids found in cages in home
I would torcher those fuckers for about a month before I flew them down to South American and tied them up next to a giant colony of army ants so they could be eaten alive.

Now tell us how you really feel "T"

LAM · 09-13-2005, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tough Old Man

Now tell us how you really feel "T"

people that abuse chidren should get no mercy. especially those who do things to special needs children, they should all get special treatment like they haven't allready gotten the shaft with messed up genetics.

your an ex-cop PT, I'm sure there where times when you wanted to blow the back out of somebody's head for abusing children..

MyK · 09-13-2005, 07:12 PM

Americans

TJ Cline · 09-13-2005, 07:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LAM

I would torcher those fuckers for about a month before I flew them down to South American and tied them up next to a giant colony of army ants so they could be eaten alive.

Yep torture and kill those scum bags

The scary thing is what the hell are some of these kids going to grow to to be??? I worked with juvenile sex offenders for two years and they all had fucked up life stories just like this one....

The Monkey Man · 09-13-2005, 07:23 PM

I would order the place burned like Ed Geins house with all of them in it,
thus ending it forever

maniclion · 09-13-2005, 07:49 PM

Who the hell gives one family 11 kids? How do you get that many foster kids? Especially special needs children? Wouldn't a caseworker see 4, 6, 9 kids and eventually think "Hey maybe these 2 people are biting off more than they can chew."

LAM · 09-13-2005, 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maniclion

Who the hell gives one family 11 kids? How do you get that many foster kids? Especially special needs children? Wouldn't a caseworker see 4, 6, 9 kids and eventually think "Hey maybe these 2 people are biting off more than they can chew."

exactly ! those fuckers need to be brought up on charges as well, it's bullshit.

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