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13 Sep 2005, 12:18 pm

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What the ?

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13 Sep 2005, 12:26 pm

"What the?" pretty much says it all.

What gets me is that they haven't been arrested and the response of the police lieutenant makes it seem like he feels that it all makes sense.

Check out the video on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/12/caged. ... index.html



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13 Sep 2005, 12:30 pm

I will check out the CNN vidio. Thanks.

The story I linked to has been changed. It orginally said the children were foster children and all had cages. This update says they were adopted and some had cages.

My god, though. That's nuts.



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13 Sep 2005, 12:33 pm

Yeah. I've read foster and adopted. Doesn't make much difference as long as the cages are there, does it?



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13 Sep 2005, 1:15 pm

Well soon those people will be locked into a cage of a differnt sort :-D . Hopefully...... Im still a bit worried that once a jury hears the word autism they will say that it was neccessary (or at least one will.)


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13 Sep 2005, 7:10 pm

Endersdragon wrote:
Well soon those people will be locked into a cage of a differnt sort :-D . Hopefully...... Im still a bit worried that once a jury hears the word autism they will say that it was neccessary (or at least one will.)
Worse than that, they haven't been arrested and the police seem to be making excuses for them.



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13 Sep 2005, 7:16 pm

The police will eventually arrest them or they'll be mass protests and people will start losing jobs.


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13 Sep 2005, 7:27 pm

I hope so but I'm not so sure....



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13 Sep 2005, 7:29 pm

Well either that or Ill find the parents and lock them into cages, then find out who made it so they werent arrented and do the same to him/her/them.


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13 Sep 2005, 7:30 pm

BeeBee wrote:
I hope so but I'm not so sure....
Same here. Ignorance can be pretty strong when certain words are thrown about.

Where was the reaction, except here, when Law and Order:Trial byJury explicity presented a man with AS as a rapist?



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13 Sep 2005, 7:31 pm

They don't think they did anything wrong. There's a lesson in there, about just how different people can be. :roll:


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13 Sep 2005, 7:47 pm

According to the Yahoo article I read...

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Their adoptive parents, Michael Gravelle, 56, and Sharen Gravelle, 57, denied in a custody hearing Monday that they abused or neglected the children, who are ages 1-14 and have conditions that included autism and fetal alcohol syndrome.


Let's cue up the "oh, but the parents have already suffered enough" chorus...

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13 Sep 2005, 10:31 pm

Hey if they dont arrest them and lock them into a cage maybe we can have this be our prevocation for our war for independence! :-D


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13 Sep 2005, 10:34 pm

War of dependants more like.



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13 Sep 2005, 10:36 pm

Hey if they dont arrest them and lock them into a cage maybe we can have this be our prevocation for our war for independence! :-D Also the quote that kills me "We don't have any indication at this point that there was any abuse." WTF do you call having kids locked in cages!


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13 Sep 2005, 11:33 pm

I heard on CNN radio that the couple is claiming a psychiatrist told them to put them in cages for their own safety so they didn't hurt each other.

WTF. Sounds like the kinda wacko sh*t that a shrink might say... ugh.