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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (21109)	8/27/2003 11:44:52 AM
From: SirVinny	Respond to of 21614

Bobby, maybe the US army should invade the United States for the way we treat our children. I'll bet these children are glad to be free. And we don't even have a dictator: channelnewsasia.com Arizona parents force 5-year-old twin sons to live in makeshift cages An Arizona couple was accused on Monday of forcing their 5-year-old twins to live in makeshift cages in their Phoenix home. On Sunday, 69-year-old Luis Rodriguez and his 42-year-old wife Eteliva Rodriguez were charged on counts of child abuse and kidnapping. They are being held on a US$243,000 bond each. The children's mother admitted having the boys locked inside the cages for about four months. She told local police her husband wanted the boys caged because he had health problems and couldn't keep up with them while she was at work. Contrary to his wife's statement, Luis Rodriguez told police the boys had been locked up for as long as four years. He said he modified the two cages each year to accommodate the children's growth. Police said the boys were kept in separate areas that were about four feet long and six feet wide and barricaded with plastic crates. "Those little boys, they can't even talk. And then..oh my God man, I said to myself this is no good," said the twins half-brother Luis Rodriguez when he arrived at the scene. Officers said they found cockroaches crawling throughout the room and inside the cages, each of which contained a blanket and a small mattress stained with feces and urine. Investigators reported the children weren't toilet trained and couldn't talk. "You know I could never understand why they weren't progressing to speak or to talk or to say 'hi' even, you know they couldn't even say 'hi'," a neighbor said. Child Protective Services received a call on their hotline about the abuse some two years ago but neglected the report. They referred it to Family Builders, a state child-abuse-prevention program. According to Family Builders, social workers visited the family twice within two weeks of the initial call. The worker reported the children were playing outside and appeared clean, healthy and in good spirits.