Great Parenting Story of the Day: Malnourished 10 Year Old Girl Rescued by Police From Mother's Clos - Polidicks

[QUOTE]A Kansas City, Mo., mother is behind bars, accused of keeping her 10-year-old daughter locked in a closet, [b]not letting her come out to eat, sleep or even go to the bathroom. The girl weighed just 32 pounds, and hospital records indicated that she has only gained 6 pounds since she was 4 or 5 years old, according to a police probable cause statement. The girl also suffers from "multiple healing skin injuries and failure to thrive," the statement said.[/b] "She weighed a little over a third of what a 10-year-old should weigh," Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young said. "We don't know how long or how frequently she's been in there (the closet), but it's clear she'd spent a significant amount of time in there." Kansas City police met Missouri Children's Division workers outside the apartment building Friday morning after the division received a hotline call about a girl who was locked up and unable to eat or use the restroom. When a division worker told two women outside the apartment that three children lived in the apartment, the neighbors said they had never seen the third child even though they'd lived there for "several years." "We never knew of her the whole three years we've been down here," Kimberly Kelley, another neighbor, told ABC's affiliate in Kansas City, KMBC-TV. "She told us she only had two kids." Officers learned the mother, Jacole Prince, 29, was out with her two younger children, but maintenance let law enforcement inside, according to the probable cause statement. The second floor smelled strongly of urine, and when officers noticed a crib pushed against a closet door that was tied off with rope, they asked, "Is anyone in here?" A child's voice answered, "Yes." The girl was found standing in the closet, according to the statement. She told officers "the closet was her room," and she couldn't go to breakfast with her mother and sisters because she "messes herself." She also sleeps there, she said. [b]At the hospital, the child told detectives she had not been let out of the closet for two days, and she does not eat every day. She said her mother gets mad and "punches her on the back" because she "keeps peeing on herself." She is not allowed to play outside like her sisters, and instead has to play behind the couch, the girl said. That night, police arrested the girl's mother and her boyfriend. The mother allegedly admitted to locking her child up in part because she knows she would get in trouble if anyone saw how malnourished the girl had become, according to the statement. Her boyfriend denied knowing the mother ever locked the 10-year-old in a closet.[/b] The girl's mother was charged with assault in the first degree, child abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree, according to the criminal complaint. All three charges are felonies. [/QUOTE] Well shit. Crazy Missouri people.

What causes a person to snap like this?

[quote]The mother allegedly admitted to locking her child up in part because she knows she would get in trouble if anyone saw how malnourished the girl had become, according to the statement.[/quote] What the fuck? Why didn't you just, you know, feed her?

[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;36475954]What the fuck? Why didn't you just, you know, feed her?[/QUOTE] You must have had something bad happen, and it's gotten so bad that you don't want to try and get it fixed because that would involve someone seeing how bad it was. This woman was clearly off her rocker, it might no be a small leap, but it is certainly a visible one.

[quote]She is not allowed to play outside like her sisters, and instead has to play behind the couch, the girl said.[/quote] They have a couch in their closet? Must be a pretty roomy closet.

Boyfriend is going to have to come up with a better story than that, you don't [b]not know[/b] that your crazy-ass girlfriend locked up her daughter into a closet, unless it was deep in a basement or something, but that isn't the case here.

[QUOTE=koeniginator;36476608]They have a couch in their closet? Must be a pretty roomy closet.[/QUOTE] Maybe it's the robot closet.

I wonder if she'll ever be able to lead a normal life. Being neglected for so long as a child can have some long term psychological consequences.

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;36476951]I wonder if she'll ever be able to lead a normal life. Being neglected for so long as a child can have some long term psychological consequences.[/QUOTE] It's not much to go on but the fact she willingly spoke to the officers without needing to be nudged makes me feel like she'll end up fine. Maybe even a voice of hope to other children in bad homes.

Goddamn, Missouri.

[QUOTE]The second floor smelled strongly of urine, and when officers noticed a crib pushed against a closet door that was tied off with rope, they asked, "Is anyone in here?" A child's voice answered, "Yes."[/QUOTE] That's horrible but I can't help but think how queer that would of felt for the officers.

Where's the source?

[QUOTE=YourFriendJoe;36476634]Boyfriend is going to have to come up with a better story than that, you don't [B]not know[/B] that your crazy-ass girlfriend locked up her daughter into a closet, unless it was deep in a basement or something, but that isn't the case here.[/QUOTE] Eh. Or maybe he's never been in the house. Edit: I mean if they weren't arrested in the house. Which is still unlikely.

It took her a long time to come out of the closet. [editline]25th June 2012[/editline] The weirdest part of this story is that the mother has two other daughters she takes care of properly.

[QUOTE=Dogchow33;36475886]Well shit. Crazy Missouri people.[/QUOTE] The apple is bad, therefore the whole tree is bad. I love how no one catches any shit when they paint different groups of people with broad strokes, but when they do it with race shit goes thermonuclear.

This story reminds me of "Goodnight, Mr Tom". Good book. Crazy batshit closet confining parent like her.

[QUOTE=Pie108;36477884]That's horrible but I can't help but think how queer that would of felt for the officers.[/QUOTE] Are you using the word "queer" instead of "weird" to provoke a reaction

just goes to show mommy doesn't love you all equally

[QUOTE=Irkalla;36481270]The apple is bad, therefore the whole tree is bad. I love how no one catches any shit when they paint different groups of people with broad strokes, but when they do it with race shit goes thermonuclear.[/QUOTE] Not trying to generalize there, I just use that as an expression when someone of a certain area does something.

[QUOTE=Andokool12;36482252]Are you using the word "queer" instead of "weird" to provoke a reaction[/QUOTE] I use queer instead of weird sometimes, adds a bit of variety. I doubt he was trying to provoke a reaction.

[url]http://abcnews.go.com/US/missouri-mother-charged-keeping-10-year-daughter-locked/story?id=16638936#.T-jJaeHI9ok[/url] I'm quite sure this is the original source. OP, please use the source for where you found the article next time. Posting any news article without a proper source is pretty bad. [editline]25th June 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Andokool12;36482252]Are you using the word "queer" instead of "weird" to provoke a reaction[/QUOTE] That's sorta the whole point of language, provoking a reaction :v:

:pwn: I would sentence the mom of crimes against humanity without trial and send her to the most brutal prison in the world.

[QUOTE=oskutin;36488392]:pwn: I would sentence the mom of crimes against humanity without trial and send her to the most brutal prison in the world.[/QUOTE] What a thoughtful post.

Pretty shitty attempt at sweeping your problems under the rug. It's a human being for fuck's sake. UGH

[QUOTE]Great Parenting Story of the Day[/QUOTE] boy is this title misleading

Well, hope the bitch has fun in jail.

[QUOTE=Irkalla;36481270]The apple is bad, therefore the whole tree is bad. I love how no one catches any shit when they paint different groups of people with broad strokes, but when they do it with race shit goes thermonuclear.[/QUOTE] Culture has a lot more affect on how a person acts than their skin color.

[QUOTE=JamesRaynor;36491601]Culture has a lot more affect on how a person acts than their skin color.[/QUOTE] Because it's commonplace to lock a young child in a closet and barely feed them or let them out in Missouri.