Neighbors Say Kids Found in Cages Polite

Guardian ^ | 13-Sept-2005 | M.R. KROPKO

[MeanWestTexan]

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The polite term is "crib tent." Sounds to me, being poor (with 13 mouths to feed!), they made their own.

[Balding_Eagle]

I couldn't IMAGINE trying to take care of 11 special-needs kids. ,/I>

I couldn't take care of one, but it sounds (from this story) that these folks found a way to successfully take care of 11.

[TAdams8591]

Agreed. It sounds very much like that.

[TAdams8591]

Good for you! I'm glad there was a hapy ending.

We should wait, for the rest of the story before forming an opinion on this.

[bonfire]

bingo. Social Services never checked the sleeping arrangements? And how big was this house anyway? The whole story stinks.

[ladyinred]

No charges were filed? What the heck...?

[Judith Anne]

33 years ago, they didn't have those handy gadgets...wish they had...

[Belasarius]

When I was a baby and getting out of the crib my momma put a harness of some sort on me and attached it to the crib. I remember fighting with it one night getting the whole house up and don't think they used it more than once or twice

[DouglasKC]

Boy my parents would have been crucified. My little brother had a problem with always crawling out of his crib at night. My parents solution was to essentially turn it into a cage AND tie his foot with a bathrobe belt. He turned out okay, albeit liberal.

Hmmmm....on second thought...

[fat city]

``Those kids were dressed better than some of the kids who live in Cleveland."

Now there's a high reecommendation for you.

[Mrs. Don-o]

When we adopted our son Vanya from a Russian orphanage, we gave him a big, big bed and he was so full of anxiety he would curl up and rock himself for hours.

How's it goin' now? We got a bunk bed. And here's what he did: he pushed the bunk bed to the wall, put the top mattress on the other side of the bottom bunk to close it off and make a tunnel of it, and then draped blankets on both ends so he had a little cave.

I’d peek in on him when he crept in there: asleep. "Snug as a bug."

Kids with anxiety problems (and plenty of just-plain-normal kids) love to curl up and sleep in a small space, with soft walls they can touch on either side. (Womb?)

I strongly suspect that if these so- called "cages" had been initially reported as "built-in cribs" and the monitors or locks had been noted as "security devices" or "safety adaptations," there would have been no hullabaloo whatsoever.

Eleven kids, some with autism, some with other handicaps, described as "well-dressed" and "polite" and "playing normally"? I'd say IT'S JUST POSSIBLE that are adoptive parents who are doing a fantastic job.

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`There's no followup because you're giving that family the money so they can incorporate that child into their life,' she said."

Ok, we've got a candidate for dumbest statement by a government employee.

You must have forgotten, it takes a village.

[Shazolene]

Really. Sounds like cribs and/or bunk beds.
And it seems to have worked.
Happy, well-behaved kids? Guess we don't like that.

[Chickensoup]

People who adopt special needs kids often do it as a living. This is how the government gets these kids cared for since the leftists closed your local home for the handicapped. It sounds like this family is experienced and followed the directions of professionals to keep the children safe. Special needs kids often have urine smelling beds.

[Chickensoup]

People who adopt special needs kids often do it as a living. This is how the government gets these kids cared for since the leftists closed your local home for the handicapped. It sounds like this family is experienced and followed the directions of professionals to keep the children safe. Special needs kids often have urine smelling beds.

[Chickensoup]

Remember these kids go to therapies and day care during the days. There is a lot of programming for MR kids.

[montomike]

At least Michael Jackson wasn't a frequent visitor to the home!

[El Gato]

The children were placed with four foster families and were doing well, said Erich Dumbeck, director of the Huron County Department of Job and Family Services. He said they appeared relieved.

``We're still trying to figure out what happened in that home. We don't have any indication at this point that there was any abuse,'' Dumbeck said.

No indication of abuse, kids well cared for. Why did you send them to other foster homes where that is quite likely not to be the case?

It sounds as if the so called "Cages" were to protect the children from themselves. Sort of like play pens and cribs for physically less capable youngsters.

[El Gato]

There are other ways to do that - one would be to not adopt 11 kids so that you feel you have to stack them in cages.

So if it were just one or two kids in "cages" it would be OK? The story indicates that the kids only slept in these "cages", probably because they couldn't be trusted not to hurt themselves or others while the foster parents were sleeping.

[bonfire]

They had chicken wire on the sides and supposedly no bedding.