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Topic: DID ANYONE HEAR ABOUT THE KIDS THAT WERE STARVED BY THEIR FOSTER PARENTS?
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Dee-Dee Sheridan
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I think it was about 3 or 4 children, the oldest 18.
They were found digging through the garbage for food.
Between the 3 or 4 of them they weighed about 136lbs.
(that may not be accurate) but somewhere around that much.
Can anyone give more details?
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Dee-Dee Sheridan
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I heard the tail end of it this morning, it was on Tom Joyner's Morning Show. Anyone have more details?
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Mack-Williams
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I have a girlfriend that lived in a Foster Home and the horry stories she tells me is frighting. I can't believe that people would do such terrible things to kids. She will be telling me some stuff and I will be almost in tears.
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Dee-Dee Sheridan
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This story brought tears to my eye's.
October 27, 2003 -- The sicko New Jersey couple who starved their four sons apparently preferred their daughters - allowing them to pig out in front of the boys, authorities said.
While the little girls could be seen frolicking in a small pool behind the family's house in the middle-class Philadelphia suburb of Collingswood in the summer, the tragic skin-and-bones boys were forced to wash their clothes in a bucket on the side of the house and clip the grass with small hand shears, neighbors said.
"I thought the boys had AIDS. That's why I never called anyone," one shaken neighbor said yesterday.
The boys - ages 9, 10, 14 and 19 - weren't wasting away from disease, but from the stomach-churning neglect of their parents, Raymond Jackson, 50, and his 48-year-old wife, Vanessa, authorities charge.
The boys, who had been adopted between 1995 and 1997, were locked out of the kitchen and given only uncooked pancake batter, peanut butter and jelly and cereal to eat, officials said.
The boys told authorities they thought they were getting more nutrients by also eating bits of the home's wallboard and insulation.
Meanwhile, the girls - two adopted, ages 5 and 10, and a 12-year-old in the process of being adopted - were allowed to order Chinese takeout and chow down in front of the boys, authorities said.
"The girls were heavy and well-fed," neighbor Dee Evans said.
By comparison, the oldest boy stunned cops when he told them he was 19. They caught him rummaging through a neighbor's trash for food, and the family horror was finally exposed.
He was a pathetic 4 feet tall and weighed 45 pounds - about the size of a normal 6-year-old.
The children lived with the Jacksons and their biological son and daughter, both in their 20s, who also appeared healthy.
Neighbor Pete DiMattia said he tried to reach out to the boys over the years, but every time "you would ask the kids if anything was wrong, they would say, 'No, Mr. Pete. Everything's fine.'
"They said that for years."
DiMattia said he was especially upset when he brought back toys for the boys after a vacation. Later, when he asked one of the girls if her brothers liked the gifts, she said, "No, they're not allowed to play with toys."
He said the family went to church every Sunday and sang gospel songs back at the house at night - a cruel facade masking what life was really like.
On Friday, when the Jacksons were arrested, DiMattia said Ray came up to him, shook his hand and said, "It's just a misunderstanding."
"I hope they throw the book at him," DiMattia said.
The couple, who essentially lived off stipends they got from the government for the children, were each being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
The state case worker who had been assigned to oversee the 12-year-old girl's pending adoption has resigned, officials said.
Kevin Ryan, head of the state's new Office of the Child Advocate, summed up the case this way:
"We have a caseworker who went to a house 38 times in two years, and many of those times, she saw all seven children, and she reported in the case record that those children were all safe, despite the fact that the utilities had been turned off for the last six months, the kitchen doors were locked shut and the four boys were obviously starving."
The parents claimed that the boys suffered from eating disorders that made them so scrawny.
Authorities said a physical exam proved otherwise.
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Dee-Dee Sheridan
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gabriel
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boys are the 3 in front of the parents (on the left) and the 19 yr old is the boy behind and to the right of the mother.
this story is insanely depressing.
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I say give the Foster Parents the same treatment for whatever years they're convicted! Only pancake batter & raw cereal locked up in a cage!
Un freaken REAL!
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DLow
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I read about this this morning. If I'm not mistaken, even the 19 yr old was around 50lbs...he's still in the hospital. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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 This is just as bad...how it be??
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alex zen
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how can people be so sick? i wonder if they were allowed to go to school.
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gabriel
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19 yr old said he hadn't seen a school or a restaurant since 1996
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Dee-Dee Sheridan
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Originally posted by sammyrock:
This is just as bad...how it be??
This can't be real
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Dee-Dee Sheridan
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Originally posted by sammyrock:
This is just as bad...how it be??
Sammy where did you get this photo? What's the addy?
[ October 28, 2003, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: Dee-Dee Sheridan ]
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DISKOQUEEN99
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Like I said before in the case of the child left home alone for couple of weeks, this stuff happens all the time. You just don't hear about it until someone notices/reports it.
[ October 28, 2003, 01:27 PM: Message edited by: DISKOQUEEN99 ]
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Dee-Dee Sheridan
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Originally posted by DISKOQUEEN99:
Like I said before in the case of the child left home alone for couple of weeks, this stuff happens all the time. You just don't hear about it until someone notices/reports it.
It's a damn shame. I couldn't imagine anything happening this terrible.
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All the talk of racial genocide seems unwarranted. We seem to be commiting racial and cultural suicide just fine....
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Originally posted by gabrielloveshouse:
boys are the 3 in front of the parents (on the left) and the 19 yr old is the boy behind and to the right of the mother.
this story is insanely depressing.
Never mind.
Poor kids.
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Originally posted by Dee-Dee Sheridan:
By comparison, the oldest boy stunned cops when he told them he was 19. He was a pathetic 4 feet tall and weighed 45 pounds - about the size of a normal 6-year-old.
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Terri 447
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"We have a caseworker who went to a house 38 times in two years, and many of those times, she saw all seven children, and she reported in the case record that those children were all safe, despite the fact that the utilities had been turned off for the last six months, the kitchen doors were locked shut and the four boys were obviously starving."
WTF?!?! THE CASEWORKER WENT TO THE HOUSE 38 TIMES AND DIDN'T REPORT IT?!?!?! HE/SHE SHOULD BE FIRED FROM HIS/HER JOB!!
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quote:
Originally posted by Terri 447:
"We have a caseworker who went to a house 38 times in two years, and many of those times, she saw all seven children, and she reported in the case record that those children were all safe, despite the fact that the utilities had been turned off for the last six months, the kitchen doors were locked shut and the four boys were obviously starving."
WTF?!?! THE CASEWORKER WENT TO THE HOUSE 38 TIMES AND DIDN'T REPORT IT?!?!?! HE/SHE SHOULD BE FIRED FROM HIS/HER JOB!!
I believe the state has fired several caseworkers involved in this situation, and is exploring possible criminal charges. Oh, and the article I read said that NJ is reviewing a gang of cases that received positive assessments to make sure that the workers involved with those cases weren't lying on those, too.
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Originally posted by gabrielloveshouse:
boys are the 3 in front of the parents (on the left) and the 19 yr old is the boy behind and to the right of the mother.
this story is insanely depressing.
That is messed up. Unfortunately, parents might be out soon. The judicial system usually pisses me off with its loopholes. We'll see how this story unfoilds cuz i know we haven't heard the last of it.
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Alanda Marquette from DiscoLadyLand
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Originally posted by Discogoddess:
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Originally posted by Terri 447:
"We have a caseworker who went to a house 38 times in two years, and many of those times, she saw all seven children, and she reported in the case record that those children were all safe, despite the fact that the utilities had been turned off for the last six months, the kitchen doors were locked shut and the four boys were obviously starving."
WTF?!?! THE CASEWORKER WENT TO THE HOUSE 38 TIMES AND DIDN'T REPORT IT?!?!?! HE/SHE SHOULD BE FIRED FROM HIS/HER JOB!!
I believe the state has fired several caseworkers involved in this situation, and is exploring possible criminal charges. Oh, and the article I read said that NJ is reviewing a gang of cases that received positive assessments to make sure that the workers involved with those cases weren't lying on those, too.
That's why the heifa resigned, she knew she would be in trouble.
And for that family, Those boys should have roasted and ate the fat a** momma and daughters.
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