Posted on 03/21/2025 7:22:48 AM PDT by Libloather
He’ll get SHU or PC
usually
I can't even figure out the current ages of the kids or the actual number. It starts out saying, “forcing their five adopted black children to work on their farm as “slaves”. In a caption in the article it says, “The adopted children are ages 6, 9, 11, 14 and 16.” I guess they are no longer counting the older girl since she is now 18, but would add up to six not five.
My wife and I have 3 children and 8 grandchildren. We were both required to do chores including pulling weeds and planting with our hands when we were kids. We tried to get our kids to do the same when they were growing up. We have never been able to get any of our grandkids to do anything that has any economic value. When we have them and our kids over for holidays, no one even helps us wash the dishes... let alone picking up the other messes that they make while visiting.
From the pictures it doesn't look like the “parents” were prospering by taking advantage of their adopted children. I am fairly certain that this was a bad situation, and a jury was convinced that it was. But you cannot tell for certain what was going on from the articles that you can find.
That’s pretty much the way it was in my life. My dad was a cattleman, spent all summer from the time I was 6 working in the hayfields for free and being berated when I messed something up.
I was a white slave.
Am surprised that I didn’t suffer irreparable neurological damage from spraying 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T (vulgo: Agent Orange)
I remember having this discussion with you years ago... I probably mentioned at that time that my dad had a huge stash of surplus military DDT and other insecticides. I had complete access to these chemicals as a youngster which we loved spraying on ant piles and weeds. We didn’t even think of as work most of the time.
Of course, as an adult I worked for many years as a HazMat officer and would not treat these chemicals as cavalierly as we did when we were children. But I have had no known issues either.
Same situation here... we had only a few dozen cows at a time, because it was mostly a hobby for my dad. But my dad always owed money to the people he got hay from. So, I was an indentured servant during Spring and Summer to these people until I moved out. I could never calculate the number of hay bales that I threw and stacked during my youth along with chasing cows and serving them their meals.
Apparently the abuse went on for years. As for why, it’s because the foster parents are animals. In any case the children are in better hands and the foster parents in jail where they belong. Any further details will probably be made public, I’m sure there will be interviews.
Not just farm kids. My father was a welder and had his own business. When I was about 10 I started going with him to work on weekends. He hardly ever took any days off, seemed he was always busy. He showed me how to sharpen chisels, oil wrenches, clean torch tips, sweep out the building, etc. I didn’t mind, I enjoyed the atmosphere of the place, and his customers treated me like I was special. By the time I was 12, I was already welding for about a year (oxy/acetylene) and I was taking all of the small jobs that came into his shop. He paid me half of what the job was, the rest was for supplies. I never considered it work, I though I was on top of the world. But the kids in the article were not treated well at all, and forced to work. I was never forced to work in my fathers shop. Many parents that have a small business take their kids to work to learn the tricks of the trade, so maybe they’ll have their own business some day. Not so with these kids, maybe you didn’t read the whole article.
This was a bit more that regular farm kid work. Most farm families do not lock their children in a shed.
I’m giving the odds of the foster parents being white near 100%.
I used to live in West Virginia and it was a magnet for hippie types trying to evade the law. Going someplace with low population density but a culture of community is not going to allow someone to go unnoticed.
Also leftists love to pretend they’re Indians.
I am watching a series on Prime called Baylen out Loud - about a girl with Tourette’s Syndrome. She and her family live in WV- looks like a very nice place.
I love the place but my family is in PA. So, I’m stuck where I am.
How much time do you get for murdering someone?
Might have been less costly to just kill them.
I do not understand how courts come up with these ridiculous sentences. Sure, if these people actually did what they are accused of doing, then a lot of time in prison would seem reasonable. But nearly 400 years in prison and they didn't kill anybody? How does that work?
It's just the silly court system being silly.
No, I slept in the open with no tent.
I'm not sure that's an accurate account of what happened. Certainly the media people will sensationalize things. I find some of what they are claiming hard to believe without seeing the evidence for myself.
We get a lot of kooky juries deciding things with no real evidence of what they are accused of. The Derrick Chauvin case comes to mind.
See? This is what I mean about screwy sentences. They are all over the place!
Did you read the story?
I remember the story when it first broke. They brought plenty of evidence. All you have to do is read the story.
It doesn’t matter what color parents or kids are. The sentence is just. IMHO
Were they Democrats?
You thank that is funny?
Fookin’ racist.
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