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Woman, Friend Charged With Starving 9-Year-Old Daughter
Fox ^ | 8/3/2006 | AP

Posted on 08/03/2006 12:05:43 PM PDT by too short

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A woman and her roommate were charged with starving the woman's 9-year-old daughter, who weighed just 42 pounds when she was found, was locked up all day and was forced to wear a filthy diaper, authorities said.

Melissa Samoraj, 27, and Raymond LaFountain, 31, were arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated child abuse. The girl was so emaciated that her spine and ribcage were showing when state child welfare officials took her June 30, police said.

The girl also had her hands bound behind her, was locked in a bedroom all day and wore a diaper that went unchanged for hours, officials said. She told police it was punishment for bad behavior.

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LaFountain was originally described by police as Samoraj's live-in boyfriend, but the gender classification at the jail was changed from male to female following a routine strip search, Pinellas sheriff's spokesman Mac McMullen said.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: sick; wtfiswrongwithpeople

1 posted on 08/03/2006 12:05:45 PM PDT by too short
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To: too short

9 year old in diapers?

MOTHER starving this DAUGHTER?

SICKENING!


2 posted on 08/03/2006 12:06:33 PM PDT by nmh
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"LaFountain was originally described by police as Samoraj's live-in boyfriend, but the gender classification at the jail was changed from male to female following a routine strip search, Pinellas sheriff's spokesman Mac McMullen said."

Kinky LESBIAN relationship?
3 posted on 08/03/2006 12:08:47 PM PDT by nmh
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I'm becoming more and more a fan of an eye for an eye. I wonder how this inhuman, and inhumane, couple would like to be in her place. makes... blood... boil.....


4 posted on 08/03/2006 12:20:24 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Prayers for that little girl. What is sad is that neither one of them will probably get much time. When in fact, they should get life doing hard labor.


5 posted on 08/03/2006 12:45:08 PM PDT by yellowdoghunter (Vote out the RINO's; volunteer to help get Conservative Republicans elected!)
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her spine and ribcage were showing


Just like stars in Hollywood?


6 posted on 08/03/2006 12:51:24 PM PDT by wolfcreek (You can spit in our tacos and you can rape our dogs but, you can't take away our freedom!)
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To: nmh

What do you want to bet that the "bad behavior" was complaining about the lesbian relationship of her mother and her partner?


7 posted on 08/03/2006 12:54:56 PM PDT by Eva
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To: nmh

This comes from the same 30% that think Bush was flying the planes on 9-11


8 posted on 08/03/2006 1:22:31 PM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
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Isn't this in the same area where Terri Schaivo was starved to death?


9 posted on 08/03/2006 3:37:26 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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gender classification...was changed from male to female following a routine strip search

no kiddin'!!!


10 posted on 08/03/2006 4:33:21 PM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("It's never too late to have a happy childhood" - unknown)
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To: Eva
Wouldn't put money on that one.

The daughter was in the way.
11 posted on 08/03/2006 5:21:34 PM PDT by nmh
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