Mike and Sharon ran a human zoo
Eleven kids were found caged in Wakeman, OH yesterday. The adoptive parents, Mike and Sharon Gravelle obviously felt that the best way to raise kids was to put them in cages (no more than 3-4 feet high) and then totally deny they abused the children. Apparently, some of the kids suffer from autism and fetal alcohol syndrome and actually recommened that they put the children in cages at night to sleep. Of course after the Sheriffs office found the kids, they went ahead and placed them in different foster homes for the time being. No charges have been filed yet.
Eleven children found caged in Ohio (AP)
Eleven children found caged in Ohio (AP)
posted by Ms X at 9:33 AM
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Unless a person has ever dealt with a special needs child,they shouldn't be judging those parents until ALL the facts are uncovered. If it was for the FAS kids' safety during resting times (naps and nightly), then I can completely understand why "cages" might be used. Better the kids be safely locked in when Mom and Dad are also sleeping....then risk the chance that they might do harm to themselves or others within the home or worse...leave the home and be harmed.
A facility home would confine them as needed and though it's unfortunate that family doesn't have the same resources to provide a "padded room" for each child....it is a blessing that those kids actually had two people willing to be their parents.
They will probably get the kids back after all the evidence is reviewed.
A facility home would confine them as needed and though it's unfortunate that family doesn't have the same resources to provide a "padded room" for each child....it is a blessing that those kids actually had two people willing to be their parents.
They will probably get the kids back after all the evidence is reviewed.
# posted by 
: 5:58 PM, December 06, 2005
: 5:58 PM, December 06, 2005
Your comment is ridiculous... What if a fire would have broke out? Those kids would have died. Those parents need to be put in jail and have their heads shoved in the toilet and noses pushed into the wall until their noses bleed. How dare them treat human beings as if they were animals!
# posted by : 4:48 PM, December 09, 2005
: 4:48 PM, December 09, 2005
you are both right some parents dont know what it is like to live with special needs kids ill tell you it is hard. i am only 16 and my parents have fostered and adopted 10 kids, 7 of which having special needs. BUT every special needs kids are different. i think the graevelles thought of safty 1st but there were other ways of protection for those kids. with some people not knowing the whonle story of them eating batteries and harming the others with household items something had to be done. i am appauld that everyone thinks negitivly, those kids had a home and they finally felt they were loved. i have met that family before and i think they tried to do what was best. some of you arnt thinking of the conditions the kids were in to be taken and put in the foster home in the 1st place. i know what those kids whent through, i was living on a street in a car , sexually and emotnionally abused and it hurts to look back. some people dont look at how the kids need to be loved and cared for and just blame everything on the parents. at least the gravelles stepped up and tried to help those poor kids, because i know if no had for me I WOULD HAVE DIED. so think before you go saying people should be put on death row for trying to help those kids
you are both right some parents dont know what it is like to live with special needs kids ill tell you it is hard. i am only 16 and my parents have fostered and adopted 10 kids, 7 of which having special needs. BUT every special needs kids are different. i think the graevelles thought of safty 1st but there were other ways of protection for those kids. with some people not knowing the whonle story of them eating batteries and harming the others with household items something had to be done. i am appauld that everyone thinks negitivly, those kids had a home and they finally felt they were loved. i have met that family before and i think they tried to do what was best. some of you arnt thinking of the conditions the kids were in to be taken and put in the foster home in the 1st place. i know what those kids whent through, i was living on a street in a car , sexually and emotnionally abused and it hurts to look back. some people dont look at how the kids need to be loved and cared for and just blame everything on the parents. at least the gravelles stepped up and tried to help those poor kids, because i know if no had for me I WOULD HAVE DIED. so think before you go saying people should be put on death row for trying to help those kids
you are both right some parents dont know what it is like to live with special needs kids ill tell you it is hard. i am only 16 and my parents have fostered and adopted 10 kids, 7 of which having special needs. BUT every special needs kids are different. i think the graevelles thought of safty 1st but there were other ways of protection for those kids. with some people not knowing the whonle story of them eating batteries and harming the others with household items something had to be done. i am appauld that everyone thinks negitivly, those kids had a home and they finally felt they were loved. i have met that family before and i think they tried to do what was best. some of you arnt thinking of the conditions the kids were in to be taken and put in the foster home in the 1st place. i know what those kids whent through, i was living on a street in a car , sexually and emotnionally abused and it hurts to look back. some people dont look at how the kids need to be loved and cared for and just blame everything on the parents. at least the gravelles stepped up and tried to help those poor kids, because i know if no had for me I WOULD HAVE DIED. so think before you go saying people should be put on death row for trying to help those kids
you are both right some parents dont know what it is like to live with special needs kids ill tell you it is hard. i am only 16 and my parents have fostered and adopted 10 kids, 7 of which having special needs. BUT every special needs kids are different. i think the graevelles thought of safty 1st but there were other ways of protection for those kids. with some people not knowing the whonle story of them eating batteries and harming the others with household items something had to be done. i am appauld that everyone thinks negitivly, those kids had a home and they finally felt they were loved. i have met that family before and i think they tried to do what was best. some of you arnt thinking of the conditions the kids were in to be taken and put in the foster home in the 1st place. i know what those kids whent through, i was living on a street in a car , sexually and emotnionally abused and it hurts to look back. some people dont look at how the kids need to be loved and cared for and just blame everything on the parents. at least the gravelles stepped up and tried to help those poor kids, because i know if no had for me I WOULD HAVE DIED. so think before you go saying people should be put on death row for trying to help those kids
As a parent of a child with autism and a friend of someone who herself adopted two children with Fetal Alcohol syndrome, I WOULD NEVER NEVER cage a child!! A child with autism already feels like they are in a cage, secluded from the world!! These people, the Gravelles, should have stopped fostering children after two or three. These children would have been placed in a different home if the gravelles were not around. As for the comment posted above on the 12th of April, if you really knew this family; as I know their oldest daughter and son, you would know that they were abused themselves!! Including incest!!
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