Dec 11 2008
Torture Victim Escaped
I am going to take a break from posting chapters of my story (see previous days’ posts) to briefly discuss a shocking news story I heard. A 16 year old boy showed up at a health club in Stockton with bruises and scars and other horrific wounds. He had chains around his feet and arms. The boy had escaped from his home where he had been tortured by his foster parents for years. What is wrong with some people? Did these people adopt this kid just so they could beat him? The foster parents of this brave kid beat him daily with a baseball bat, burned cigarettes into him, and forced him to consume various drugs, so as to dull his senses and make him manageable. Not only did the foster parents beat him, though, they got the neighbors and a gym coach in on it. A neighbor of the foster parents was charged today with torturing the boy for over a year. How did that work? Did they call their neighbor and invite him over? Hey, its friday, time to torture the kid!” The idea of some one doing that is inconceivable to me. The only good part about this story is that the boy had the will power and the courage to escape, jump over an 8 foot fence that had been built to keep him in, and run to a nearby health club, despite all his injuries. Also, it gives me some satisfaction to know that the parents will be thrown in jail for many, many years. The sad part about that, however, is that these abusive, terrible foster parents will get better food and better treatment in PRISON than their foster son got at HOME. what a wonderful world
