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Toddler Locked In Room For A Month
CBS/AP ^ | 07/18/06

Posted on 07/19/2006 1:28:03 PM PDT by presidio9

A Torrington man and his girlfriend have been charged with risk of injury after a 3-year-old boy was found locked in a room in their home with a broken arm.

Police said the boy was forced to stay in the room for a month as punishment for swearing. He was allowed to leave only to use the toilet for a bowel movement. A 20-ounce soda bottle was provided when he had to urinate, according to the police report.

The child's father, Jeremy Lacey 29, and his girlfriend, Mistee Lee Lemons, 27, were charged with three counts of risk of injury to a minor ordered held on $150,000 bonds. They are scheduled to return to court on August 2.

The boy and seven other children in the home were taken into state custody.

The boy told police he hurt his arm trying to climb on a milk crate to open the door.

He was found Monday by a neighbor, who told police she went into the apartment after seeing several children hanging off a second-floor balcony.

Jenny Loomis told the Register Citizen of Torrington that when she unlocked the bedroom door and saw the boy with a bloody lip and cradling his swollen arm, she was devastated.

"I was shaking and it took everything I had not to cry about what I was seeing," Loomis said.

"When I opened the door and told him he could come out, he looked around and said he was not allowed to talk," she said. "I thought something has to be done."

The child's fracture appeared to be at least 15 hours old, according to the police report.

The children told police the couple also forced them to balance books on their heads as punishment, and would spank them if a book dropped.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: childabuse; getarope
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To: Walkingfeather
Stand behind me, I'm in line first.

Well, there are two. Heads, you get the guy, tails, I do.......

61 posted on 07/20/2006 5:17:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

Outstanding!!

I cant do your job, I would have slammed the idiot against the car hood.


62 posted on 07/20/2006 6:19:49 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)
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To: Red Badger
Please don't use the terms "father" and "mother" in conjunction with scumbags such as these.

Initially I had typed the word "dad" but had to correct myself by retyping the word "father".

I like your correction better.

63 posted on 07/20/2006 6:21:13 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The Good Lord watches out for little children, fools and ships named Enterprise.")
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To: GOPJ

I mentioned sadistic in my post. And, of course, I was being sarcastic.
susie


64 posted on 07/20/2006 8:18:26 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: Red Badger
Please don't use the terms "father" and "mother" in conjunction with scumbags such as these. "Sperm donor" and "sperm receptacle" are much more appropriate.......

Good for you. Thanks for calling it like it is - these animals should never be called "father" or "mother" by anyone...

65 posted on 07/20/2006 8:41:02 AM PDT by GOPJ ("...we're in the third world war, which side do you think should win?" -- Newt Gingrich)
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To: RaceBannon

Does the trash man get angry at the trash? Sure sometimes he hates the smell. Sometimes he wishes the can didn't get kicked over. But getting angry at the trash, while at times is unavoidable, has no positive effect.


66 posted on 07/20/2006 8:44:21 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Life is tough. It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Hildy

Only 5 of the children are hers, the rest are her boyfriend.


67 posted on 07/21/2006 10:55:40 AM PDT by MrNeutron1962
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To: Red Badger

I need to agree with you that they need to be punished I think a baseball bat is to good for them needs to be a slower more painful punishment


68 posted on 07/21/2006 3:56:48 PM PDT by nemakay
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To: finnman69
she had her first at 13 he was taken away and put in foster care and was killed in a auto accident . the other 5 she has are all from different fathers too. none of them are Laceys. And to top it all the 3 1/2 year old isn't hers its his. his real mother didn't know where they were until now.
69 posted on 07/21/2006 4:08:02 PM PDT by nemakay
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To: finnman69

To bad that sh also goes by 3 or 4 other last Names


70 posted on 07/21/2006 4:09:32 PM PDT by nemakay
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To: gidget7
unfortunately I do know this family and it is very heart breaking this all happened in torrington CT
71 posted on 07/21/2006 4:13:27 PM PDT by nemakay
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To: nemakay
I'm sorry hear that. Yes it is sad to have this happen in Torrington. We hear of some things, but never things so extreme.

I spend a lot of time there, as I am from there, as is my family. It is incredible how much Torrington has grown, and now that Torrington Co. is closed, it's truly a bedroom community. The traffic shows it too, can't get across town anymore!
72 posted on 07/21/2006 4:16:46 PM PDT by gidget7 (PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
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To: Horatio Gates
Crips?? Piru?? what are you talking about., I lived there for more than 20 years, only recently moved, and I never heard of either one.
73 posted on 07/21/2006 4:19:27 PM PDT by gidget7 (PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
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To: grellis

If they dont go away for good they better hide really well.


74 posted on 07/21/2006 4:20:32 PM PDT by nemakay
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To: gidget7
Ooops should of considered the other readers...8>)

I was chatting with my Seattle PD buddy and I was talking about the town I patrol. Piru is a set, or sub group, of the L.A gang the Bloods and the Crips are a rival L.A. gang both with sets in my town

75 posted on 07/21/2006 6:30:15 PM PDT by Horatio Gates (GBU-10 and GBU-38...two tickets to paradise)
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To: Horatio Gates

LOL ohhhhhh I see.


76 posted on 07/21/2006 7:00:04 PM PDT by gidget7 (PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
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To: TChris

not all parents act or treat their childeren this way, coming from the mother of the 3 lacey boys, that i havent seen since march when their father jeremy lacey left state and i had no clue about the where abouts.


77 posted on 07/25/2006 8:35:26 AM PDT by nemakay
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To: Clintonfatigued

i hope they spend major time and get the shit beat out of them in jail,why would they care if they are sterilized mistee has 5 kids and jeremy has 3.


78 posted on 07/25/2006 8:40:06 AM PDT by nemakay
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To: nemakay
not all parents act or treat their childeren this way

Duh, really?

.....coming from the mother of the 3 lacey boys, that i havent seen since march when their father jeremy lacey left state and i had no clue about the where abouts.

I'm sorry, but I question the sanity and judgement of any woman who would procreate with an animal like this man. It's hard not to lable her guilty by association....

79 posted on 07/25/2006 8:43:48 AM PDT by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

your on the right track but thats still not enough how about just shooting there face off.


80 posted on 07/25/2006 8:44:21 AM PDT by nemakay
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