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Georgia parents arrested after starving 10-year-old son runs away to beg for food: cops
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Posted on 05/16/2023 4:56:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: EliRoom8

They look pretty healthy for meth heads. I would venture they were just sadists who enjoyed torturing and abusing their child.


21 posted on 05/16/2023 5:29:56 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: EvilCapitalist

“I weighed 60lbs when I was 10 years old. I wasn’t being starved, I was just a scrawny kid.”

That’s understandable for an active kid. This child is almost half that weight at age 10.

I weighed 98 when I got married at aged 17. I wasn’t starved, I was just a picky eater and active. This child didn’t even have the opportunity to be a picky eater and an active child.


22 posted on 05/16/2023 5:31:24 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: BenLurkin

Photos at the link show a happy normal looking couple.

Goes to show you never what goes on behind closed doors.


23 posted on 05/16/2023 5:38:33 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Valpal1

People like this tend not to live very long in prison.


24 posted on 05/16/2023 5:38:50 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SauronOfMordor
Most abusive parents abuse all their children. But there are times when they treat most of their kids ok but one child, for some reason is the scapegoat. This child is abused, often horrifically. If the child is removed one of the remaining children will be selected as the new scapegoat.

In the past the abused child was often the step child and that is still true today. That is where the phrase "beat like a red headed step child" comes from. But once again there are exceptions and the child selected may be biologically the child of the parents and a full sibling to the rest.

It is a very weird sort of family dynamic and the parents usually maintain that they are doing nothing wrong that it is all the scapegoated child's fault. That they are difficult, rebellious, destructive or even insane and the parents are just trying to control them.

And there is the flip side. Sometimes out of several kids there is one who is "difficult, rebellious, destructive or even insane" and the parents are legitimately just trying to control them.

Probably not the case here through.

25 posted on 05/16/2023 5:41:05 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: BlueLancer
Having read the histories of other parents like this, it's amazing how many times there are other children in the home. They seem to pick one to torture and kill.
26 posted on 05/16/2023 5:41:15 PM PDT by Varda
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To: Organic Panic

You may be right about the meth-head analysis. I think druggies might be less of a reach though than sadism.


27 posted on 05/16/2023 5:46:58 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: BenLurkin

It’s cases like this that make me a real fan of the OT eye for an eye kind of justice.


28 posted on 05/16/2023 5:51:20 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: EvilCapitalist

He wanted 36


29 posted on 05/16/2023 5:58:26 PM PDT by HollyB
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Weighed


30 posted on 05/16/2023 5:59:28 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: BenLurkin

The parents appear to have a pinterest account, and they are apparently “vegan” fans. I’ve always been of the opinion that only crazy nuts are vegans.

https://www.pinterest.com/tschindley/vegan/


31 posted on 05/16/2023 6:12:59 PM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: jjotto

Griffin. South of Atlanta. Its not much.


32 posted on 05/16/2023 6:27:53 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Doc Holliday was from Giffin, GA. Perhaps LTC Allen Imes was quite a hero. In 1968 Major Imes was a superior officer when I met him. Imes was a real SF man.


33 posted on 05/16/2023 6:52:20 PM PDT by Lumper20 (Ham)
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To: EvilCapitalist

You weighed 60 lbs, this kid weighs 36 lbs. Pretty big difference.


34 posted on 05/16/2023 10:40:58 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: Varda; Harmless Teddy Bear

“They seem to pick one to torture and kill.”

This is pretty common I think. I remember a horrific story about some little girl in NYC who was singled out for abuse in her family. I think she ended up dead. And this was an intact biological family, iirc.

And yes, the NY family was lower class, these people clearly are not, but the insanity is the same.


35 posted on 05/16/2023 10:45:49 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
And there is the flip side. Sometimes out of several kids there is one who is "difficult, rebellious, destructive or even insane" and the parents are legitimately just trying to control them.

A lot of these stories seem to be about autistic kids. They are different from the others, can be difficult to control, and the parents just grow to hate them.

36 posted on 05/17/2023 4:16:09 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: waterhill

You’re being too generous, a knife and these demons are allowed to live.


37 posted on 05/17/2023 10:51:03 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: EliRoom8

Sorry to post so late, I missed this story when it first came out. The parents weren’t meth-heads. They lived very wealthy lives. They owned a small business, a spa place. They took vacations.

What they did was treat this one child horribly. He is lucky to have gone to the store for food.

He and the other children will need a lot of counseling. The fact that the older kids never told anyone about their brother’s abuse shows that they were all being brainwashed. God help them all.


38 posted on 05/18/2023 7:38:04 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: FamiliarFace

Thank you for the information. Just pure evil.


39 posted on 05/18/2023 9:43:44 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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