Posted on 06/12/2005 7:55:21 AM PDT by bad company
MARSHFIELD, Mo. -- A mother and her live-in boyfriend are charged with child endangerment after investigators say they kicked her two kids out of the house. The investigation began after a passerby found a 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister walking along Highway CC near Niangua.
The kids were dragging suitcases, shopping bags and garbage bags full of clothing. They were about a quarter of a mile from their home, scared, crying and hungry.
"Thank the good Lord this was someone that wasn't going to hurt children," said Webster County Prosecuting Attorney Cynthia Black, praising the man who picked up the kids.
"The children also told deputies that their mom and her boyfriend used drugs in their home. They described in shocking detail the pipes and drugs they used," said Black. "They also referred to some spoons with burn spots on them, and spoons with burn spots typically refer to meth use."
A detective’s probable cause statement filed with the charge also outlines accusations of abuse. The kids told officers they were burned with cigarettes, hit with belts and verbally abused. The kids also said they are afraid that, if their mother and her boyfriend get sent to jail, she will kill them.
Osborne and Timmy Young face two charges each of child endangerment. The prosecutor thinks what the mother did is unbelievable.
"We see lots of nasty things and we expect to see nasty things, but this is one of the ugliest things and one of the saddest things because a 6-year-old and a 12-year-old were so very, very upset and distraught,” said Black.
The kids are physically fine and are now in the custody of a relative but Black said they are obviously traumatized. Officers arrested Osborne and Young at their home.
This is the second time in a little more than a year that Young has been charged with child endangerment. He was arrested and pleaded guilty in May 2004 for using a chainsaw to smash the windows of a van belonging to the woman who was then his girlfriend -- while her three children were inside.
Osborne and Young are jailed in lieu of $200,000 bond each. They are scheduled to be in court next Wednesday.
Black said she likely will file more charges against both in Webster County. In addition, evidence in Young's case has been handed over to the U.S. attorney’s office for possible federal charges.
This is what Meth does to you.
Incredibly destructive.
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And this woman lets him near her children??? It reminds me of that case not long ago where the ex-con husband/boyfriend had a similar history and then killed the two girls.
If only meth were legal, this wouldn't have happened. /sarcasm
There's a visual for you.
Those kids are lucky to be alive. I tried, but couldn't think up a fit punishment.
Yeah it's a good thing totalitarian prohibition prevents this sort of thing from happening, for the mere price of freedom and a few billion per year.
I wonder if we could send the dopers into a screaming rage if we recycled all their "MJ is good" tiems through the meth filter?
Sure, make meth legal and increase the revenue flows to dentists ~ this stuff makes your teeth drop out ~ just like peyote!
I take it you don't know any cranksters.
I was making the point that there are people who will do this whether that stuff is legal or not... and it still happens despite an enormous federal control regime.
They are beyond punishment.. It would have no lasting effect..
Simply eliminate them so they can no longer harm others...
About the teeth---Oh my gosh, yes. I read an article in Newsmax complete with a really ugly picture--looks like it eats away at your gums too. Teenagers getting dentures--what has this world come to. So damn sad.
It has long been my belief that the most sensible thing is to simply make all these drugs legal..
We would have a few years of massive deaths from drug overdose, and then it would level off at a very low death rate..
Drug use is a non-survival trait..
Those unworthy of survival would eliminate themselves from the "gene pool", and all humanity would benefit..
How much do you want to bet the government (Child Protective Services) gets involved and tries to enforce some form of "family unification?"
This will work if and only if you can come up with a drug that the dopers want, but which kills them quickly, but not quickly enough they can't convince the next doper to start using it.
I've seen people destroy themselves on all sorts of things. What makes cranksters so special?
O_M_G
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