Mom sentenced to 20 years for keeping son in cage:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for keeping her 17-year-old adopted son caged in her home.
Brenda Sullivan pleaded guilty in January to three counts of aggravated child abuse. Prosecutors agreed to drop lesser child neglect charges. The teen weighed 49 pounds when child welfare workers found him in 2005 in what appeared to be a cage. Sullivan told a judge at the time that Ohio authorities told her to keep the boy, who had severe medical and emotional problems, in a crib.
Two other children, 13-year-old twins the Sullivans adopted as infants, both testified they were kept in similar cages.
Sullivan's lawyer, Charles Fletcher, said he didn't think prison was the right option because she does not pose a threat to society. He said they would appeal the sentence.
Right. She's not a threat to society because children aren't a part of society, right?
One point for being another problem with the adoption system in this country, one point for starving the kids, one point for keeping them in cages and one last point for not receiving near enough of the sentence you deserve. That's four.
And Florida extends its lead.
Nod of Doom to April for the tip.
OMG........... he's 17 and weighed only 49 pounds. Words fail me in situations like this.
Is there a picture of her? I bet she has a THIGH that weighs 49 pounds.
Adoption Angencies,, shame on you,, again!