Couple admit confining boys for 13 years, still wear diapers

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » January 16, 2004, 9:42 am

http://thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSer ... 8793972154

A Durham Region couple who kept their two adopted boys confined in makeshift cages and beat them regularly over 13 years have pleaded guilty to several criminal charges.

The house of horrors for the children, discovered after relatives filed a complaint in May, 2001, shocked Durham police and children's aid officials, who found one of the youths — then 15 — curled up in a makeshift cage fashioned from a baby crib. The cage was strapped to a wall and padlocked in a ramshackle two-storey farmhouse outside of Blackstock, near Port Perry.

A 14-year-old came out of another bedroom, which also contained a cage.

Durham Region police Detective Constable Kate Lang and her partner, Constable Tim Maw, released the 15-year-old and told him he would never have to suffer this treatment again, court was told.

"Really?" the bewildered teen responded.

The boys were taken into foster care that day. Since then, they are "doing as well as can be expected," Lang said. They both attend high school now.

"This has been a very difficult case for everyone involved from the beginning," said Lang who had been on the child abuse squad only for a month at the time.

Police charged the adoptive parents, the father is 51 and the mother 42, with several counts relating to more than 10 years of abuse.

They also charged an adult male relative, alleged to have assisted with the abuse, with assault with a weapon and two charges of forcible confinement. None of the accused can be named to protect the identity of the boys.

The couple agreed to each plead guilty to assault with a weapon, forcible confinement and failure to provide the necessities of life at the end of their preliminary hearing this week as part of a plea bargain. Sentencing is scheduled for April.

At the preliminary hearing, relatives, including the couple's natural daughter, recounted a sad tale of abuse suffered by the boys, who were biological nephews of the woman, from the time they were adopted at the ages of one and two.

The hearing was told the boys attended school during the day, but in the evening were sent back to their cages.

On weekends and holidays, they often were allowed downstairs for a bowl of cereal in the morning and then sent back to their cages, wearing diapers, where they would spend the rest of the day.

The adoptive mother was described to the court as a domineering, controlling woman whose husband was an illiterate and dyslexic handyman, who beat the boys on her command.

The woman claimed both boys were "mentally challenged" and would run away and cause trouble if they were not confined to their cribs.

The relative, now 31, has yet to come to trial on his charges.

With files From torstar news service

Jaxomer · Post by **Jaxomer** » January 16, 2004, 9:52 am

Fucking people

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » January 16, 2004, 10:08 am

Serial killers in the making...

Deward · Post by **Deward** » January 16, 2004, 11:11 am

People like this really sicken me. It pises me off that the prosecutors would allow a plea bargain. THese people should spend the rest of their lives in jail.

Post by **Xouqoa** » January 16, 2004, 12:07 pm

If I someone could figure out causes people to be fucked up like this, they would be very wealthy.

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » January 16, 2004, 12:29 pm

It's the lack of progressive liberal values.

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » January 16, 2004, 12:32 pm

That woman needs to be paraded around her town in a horse-drawn guilded cage, then shot like a lame horse in town square.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » January 16, 2004, 1:09 pm

Lock that bitch in a cage for the rest of her life and pistol-whip her often... awe hell... just kill her.

Marb

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » January 16, 2004, 1:28 pm

i think there will definitely be a cage invovled marb =)

masteen · Post by **masteen** » January 16, 2004, 2:06 pm

Xouqoa wrote:If I someone could figure out causes people to be fucked up like this, they would be very wealthy.

I'm pretty sure that being PWT has something to do with it. When do I get paid?

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » January 16, 2004, 2:26 pm

PWT Masteen? Not sure on that acronym...

masteen · Post by **masteen** » January 16, 2004, 2:42 pm

Poor White Trash.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » January 16, 2004, 3:07 pm

Why do people like that even bother adopting children.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » January 16, 2004, 3:09 pm

Because it alows them to fullfill their sick and twisted natures without actually doing ti to their own children.

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » January 16, 2004, 6:56 pm

godamn that pisses the hell out of me
if i were the judge i would sentence them both to 15 years of solitary confinement, in a 5 by 8 dark cell with no light

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » January 16, 2004, 7:02 pm

Thanks Masteen and I agree