[kattracks]

PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: Adopted brothers Bruce, Keith and Tyrone Jackson may have torn pieces off their wall and munched on the plaster board and insulation to curb their hunger after being fed only pancake batter, peanut butter and cereal, New Jersey authorities say.

[kcvl]

I think I'm going to vomit. How can ANYONE do that to a child???!!!

[Iowa Granny]

It is just very difficult to believe children can be treated this way and a church would protect the parents.

[chainsaw]

If that's a bed, it doesn't look very comfortable

[aardvark1]

If this story is true, I have not mercy for the parents or this church....however, I am not about to believe child protective services in ANY state in the union until I had more evidence than presented in the newspaper.

For all you freepers who don't trust gov't intrusion, why now swallow this story without at least a littel skepticism. The parents' story does sound far-fetched, but I'm not ready to jump on the state's bandwagon quite yet.

[r9etb]

The kids' adoptive parents, Raymond and Vanessa Jackson, insist it's all a misunderstanding because the children have severe eating disorders.

Well ... I suppose it's possible that their kid had severe eating disorders, and that they subsequently adopted three more kids who also had the same sorts of eating disorders.

I'm inclined to believe that there's real abuse here. But some of the other stuff is odd -- maybe there's more to it.

The church thing is really strange. Sounds like some of those folks are going out on a limb for these people, so maybe they know something we don't.

They could have been fooled by the Jacksons, who'd have honed their skills on the social services people.

[subterfuge]

"Those samples could then be compared with the contents of Bruce's stomach when he was found Oct. 10, possibly proving a theory by state officials that he had been munching on building material because he was so hungry. "

Well what does the kid say? Isn't the word of the abused worth anything? Pagin mhking--------just damn!