Posted on 11/22/2007 4:57:23 AM PST by atomic conspiracy
The inside of his ears had been burned with cigarettes. He was forced to drink shampoo. >His caretakers bent two of his toes to the point that an amputation may be necessary, according to reports.
When a Westgate Resorts administrative assistant spotted the 7-year-old trying to serve himself cereal at the buffet in their Osceola County sales center earlier this month, the first thing she noticed was his trembling arms. They were too thin. His eyes were sunken.
"He was really skinny," said Westgate employee Hilda Berrios. "He looked like one of those kids you see on TV." "As I focused, looking on him, I noticed the bruises and the cuts. I just kept noticing one thing after another. I was like, this isn't right."
Berrios contacted her manager, who contacted Westgate security, which called the Sheriff's Office.
The Department of Children and Families on Tuesday said Berrios and two other employees -- Steve Siegel and Humberto Garcia -- likely saved the boy's life.
The boy, who was alone when Berrios spotted him, had a large bruise on his temple and dried blood on his head. His legs were black and blue. Berrios asked the boy if he knew where his mom was. He didn't. She asked if he could spot her in the room. "There was no one," she said. "No one."
Two Baker County women who cared for the boy, Suzette Renee Stevenson, 45, and her girlfriend, Jamie Lynn Martin, 26, are accused of leaving the child in a car while they toured Westgate's time-shares Nov. 6. Each woman was arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse. Martin is being held at the Columbia County Jail, and Stevenson is jailed in Baker County.
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Lately; I’ve seen several cases where lesbian couples have abused young boys.
In one case the couple fostered several boys and one girl. All the boys were malnourished and had signs of severe physical abuse. The little girl was well cared for.
They are obscene is looks as well as behavior. I’m betting that they stink as well.
Thank you for doing what you have.
Someone close to me was sexually and physically abused by her “father” for her entire childhood. She has struggled with it but appears to finally be in the process of realizing the best revenge possible on him is to have a happy life anyway.
What mean, hateful, stupid b*****s!
My first impression, Mother and daughter, both with more “issues” than you could find in the average Psych ward.
I was a late comer to the thread but GMTA. I promise I didn’t see your comments before I made mine.
after all this, you want to poison some innocent polar bears, too?
A couple of .22LR hollow-points in the back of the head, and dump the garbage, as someone else here suggested...
Thanks, Sherman. As someone who endured nearly a decade in my childhood of regular sexual abuse by a family member, I can assure you that it is possible to have those deep wounds healed by God’s grace. I am “passing it on” to my new children, as best as I can, to give THEM hope as well.
God bless..
Send them to Iran. They will hang them there as Iran has no homosexuals. Maybe they will beat them too.. Prayers for the little boy & the people who saved him.
“According to Baker County Sheriff Joey B. Dobson, investigators don’t know how Stevenson gained custody of the boy. What they have learned, Dobson said, is that the boy’s father obtained custody of the boy in California. But the father gave the boy to his aunt, who raised him with her partner, Stevenson. Dobson said the aunt died and then Stevenson and the child moved to Baker County.”
“When interviewed by Baker County investigators, Stevenson and Martin blamed each other. Each said the other bound the child’s wrists and nailed them to the wall, where he was forced to stand for hours. Each also accused the other of refusing to feed the boy and refusing to send him to school because they feared teachers would see his injuries.”
How does one NOT cry for the boy when you read that??
Makes you believe that sometimes sterilization would be the humane thing to do; obviously his parents were never fit to be parents in the first place.
That wouldn't surprise me....and it happens more than people can imagine.
I was just thinking about that. This little boy won’t forget and probably already has his survival skills locked in. It’s going to take a lot of time and work to reach him.
You have room for another one? :’)
Why? do you need a home? :-) I’ve already been asked (if you can believe it, since I adopted four siblings already) by a social worker if I wanted to take ANOTHER sibling set of three awhile back. I said — ask me in 10 years and maybe i will say yes.
I think you are doing more than your share already.
I suspect the bindings were nailed to the wall, not the wrists. Poor writing. There’s no mention in the story of him having actual holes in his arms.
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/112107/met_219337187.shtml
In interviews with Baker County detectives, each woman said the other had tied the boy up for hours, kicked him in the stomach and kept him from attending school so teachers would not see his injuries.
Both said the boy was tied by shoelaces to nails in the wall at the residence Martin and Stevenson shared at the Trail Ridge Mobile Home Park.
Dobson said the boy told of being left inside a windowless room for days where he had to defecate and urinate in the small space.
Earlier this year, a day-care center where the boy was taken called Stevenson because he was stealing food, Dobson said.
“We know now he was stealing food because he was hungry,” the sheriff said.
Oh and another part that was added...
In her statement to detectives, Stevenson said Martin did not like the boy because he is racially mixed.
You can always ask Lazarus and Abraham where it is, they had a good view of Dives getting his!
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