Children flee from abuse of mother and lesbian lover (pc media blackout)

Beacon Journal ^ | May. 06, 2003 | Andale Gross

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Pre-dawn call brings abuse to light Man alerts Akron police after seeing three boys walking toward I-77 By Andale Gross Beacon Journal staff writer

Jeff Russell did a double take when he drove past three children a week ago in the chilly pre-dawn hours walking toward the highway.

Three boys dressed in T-shirts, the smallest riding on the shoulders of one of the older boys, were heading north on East Avenue near Interstate 77, about a mile away from their Florida Avenue home in Kenmore. They had walked past houses and car lots and were near a gas station.

Russell, a postal worker who spotted the youngsters as he drove a mail truck shortly before 4:30 a.m. April 28, was one of the few people out at that hour.

``What got me was how small they were and what time it was,'' said Russell, 49.

When he telephoned Akron police five to 10 minutes later, Russell didn't realize the boys were fleeing from their home where it is alleged they and two siblings were being abused by their mother and her domestic partner of seven years.

Mary Rowles, 30, and the woman she calls her spouse, Alice Jenkins, 27, each face five felony counts of child endangering. Jenkins also faces two counts of felonious assault.

Akron Police Sgt. Brian Harding said if it weren't for Russell's phone call along with the calls of anonymous tipsters, police might not have learned about the abuse.

``The call was very important. That started the ball rolling,'' he said.

Russell said: ``I was in the right place at the right time.... I'm no hero.''

Sitting on the front porch of his Green home Monday, Russell said there is no way he could have known the children's situation, but he regrets not stopping the moment he saw them.

``You don't see kids walking that early. In hindsight, I should've pulled over and talked to them and found out why they were out there,'' he said. ``But we're always on a schedule. (Managers) don't really care for us stopping.''

He returned to the main post office branch on Wolf Ledges Parkway and contacted police and told them about the boys. It was his call and others that helped lead police to the boys and the house where they allegedly were beaten, poorly fed and locked in a closet for weeks at a time.

Russell said the two older boys looked to be about 5 and the smaller boy about 2.

Police took custody of the boys aged 8, 10 and 14, and later took two more boys, aged 13 and 6, and a girl, 12, from the house.

None of the three boys found on the street was wearing socks or shoes. The 14-year-old told police he had gotten rags from a trash can to wrap his sore feet.

Russell and his wife, Colleen, later learned from news accounts who the boys were.

``If those kids would have kept walking down the street, those women could have woken up, and it could have ended a lot differently,'' Colleen Russell said.

The boys and their sister all are in foster care.

``I think they were the heroes for getting out of the house,'' Russell said.

``Somehow they chose the right time. They made the break and did it.''

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andale Gross can be reached at 330-996-3743 or agross@thebeaconjournal.com

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This is being ignored by the media. This is shocking stuff. Just reading the article you have to envision what drove these kids to flee, barefoot to get away. There is not much in this article, the details must be even worse.

[JoshGray]

Thousands of kids are abused each year -- exactly why is this supposed to be newsworthy outside the local area?

[battlegearboat]

Mom and "Dad" are out of the closet, it's the kids turn.

[cynicom]

If you need to ask, you would not understand.

[Tacis]

No, it is Bush's fault! If only these two loving lesbos had been allowed to marry by a fairy hating state, these children would all be Rhodes Scholars. Lesbos are superior parents and must get whatever they ask for. This story is so atypical that the old timees, left wing media may properly disregard it. Using the CNN-Iraqi prac tice, if they published it, children in other lesbo homes might be badly treated.

[scubadave]

Thousands of kids are abused each year -- exactly why is this supposed to be newsworthy outside the local area?

a)It should only be reported if the abusers were white heterosexual church members who homeschooled their kids.
b)It should only be newsworthy if the dad served in the Armed Forces and was an NRA member.
c)It should be newsworthy if the abusers were priests or bishops.
d)It should only be of importance if the mom belonged to Concerned Women for America or the Second Amendment Sisters.
e)It should only be of importance if the parents were registered Republicans. </sarcasm OFF>

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this is a perfect news story, children fleeing felony abuse. One child wearing RAGS for shoes because his feet hurt. An uncaring public ignoring the urchins fleet to anywhere but the hell that is home.

Drama, urgency, sypathetic children. Its a lead story (bleeds and leads) why is it not covered? Lesbians.

(same as the Dirshig (sorry about sp) story at the same time as m.shepard)

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where is the iraqi information minister, he could go work for some homoseuxal marriage rights groups. "there is no abuse, the children are home, the children have shoes, those are different children."

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Too many components of the story that contradict the media's PC worldview. Hence, blackout.

[mabelkitty]

Do a search on the story and read about the systematic abuse of the male children by this dyke, and the relative unharm (until further investigation) of the female child, AT THE HANDS OF TWO WHITE LESBIANS.

[longtermmemmory]

We should have an express way to email or transmit these anti-pc stories to FNC or MSNBc (they are trying to immitatie fox in a limited sense)or somebody. even worldnetdaily or drudge.

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this observation is not isolated. young boys typically devolope a very confused and timid in the homes of lesbian couples. (there was a new zeland study posted here a while back) It only makes sense that deveopling boys will have to face problems in being raise in an anti-male environment.

[MHGinTN]

Homosexuality is deviancy. The females abusing these children are deviants. What does America expect? ... Uh, yeah, I guess you're right, the media has taught us to expect normalcy from perversionists, helthy from deviants. [Now, where are those homo apologists that have been sullying my FR home for the last two weeks? ... Here smutty, smutty, smutty, come to the homo thread.]

[CFW]

Doesn't look as if they missed too many meals. Also, Alice looks like she has a koala bear sleeping on her head.

[EdReform]

Bump & Ping

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I understand your passionate outrage.

However, I have met two women who each had two boys, and a girl, and are not lesbians, and have neglected and abused their sons, leaving the daughter unharmed. As a mother of both a son and a daughter, I cannot fathom this type of favoritism. I believe these mothers suffer from some deep psychosis. That being said, I think these women cited in the article may also be found to be mentally ill.

I am not condoning their behavior. And, I hope they will not be able to use psychiatric evaluation to explain away their behavior. They should feel the full force of justice. May God bless these poor children.

[CFW]

Alice Jenkins (left) and Mary Rowles walk to the North Hill area Saturday after their release from Summit County Jail. The women were freed after posting bonds of $1,000.

[EdReform]

Bump!

[biblewonk]

If you need to ask, you would not understand.

No kidding. Imagine if it had been a hetero homeschooling family! The media would be all over it.

[mabelkitty]

Was it in the newspaper? Did they get a $1,000 bond?

This story is well over a week old.

Nobody is reporting it. Anywhere, so I put it on FR.

They were let loose on a $1,000 bond.