[FourtySeven]

Amazing what this society's coming to isn't it?

[Hacksaw]

A court forced the couple to return the girl to her birth mother after their attorney at the time failed to terminate her parental rights.

Whomever the judge was needs to be impeached, and probably jailed.

[AmericanInTokyo]

They just convicted and sentenced a geek in Niigata, Japan to 14 years imprisonment, for himself imprisoning a young girl for, catch this: Nine Years and 2 Months. That's right, he just pulled her off the street when she was ten and she was let out of his room (his mother was aware all that time) when she was 19! Incredible.

[Deep_6]

Ellen came out of the closet, and
got into trouble..........

Those people just can't win..

[MissAmericanPie]

I saw this fat sow on tv, she not only has never missed a meal, she never missed anyone else's either.

[sinkspur]

Amazing what this society's coming to isn't it?

"This society" is going to put this woman in jail for the rest of her life.

In a former generation, she might not even be prosecuted.

"This society" is rightly telling parents they can't treat their children like dirt.

[Moosilauke]

Looks like NOW has another poster mom to rally behind.

[stainlessbanner]

depriving her of food while locked in a closet for months at a time.

appropriate sentence for the mother.

[SerpentDove]

I read in our local papers that her siblings knew her only as "the closet girl."

I hope this monster gets what's coming to her.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I look at my beautiful one year old (this Saturday!) baby girl and weep to think that there are people who could do this to a child. A tearful bump.

[Illbay]

Well, what I want to know is: Where is the Father in all this? Shouldn't he be "on trial" too, just like Russell Yates?

[He Rides A White Horse]

Heartbreaking.........and enraging.

[Delbert]

I live in Dallas and this sad sickening story got a lot of news coverage. The husband was not the girls biological father. They both deserve to fry in my opinion. It might not have been murder, but they were well on their way to murder. If the little girl wasnt rescued when she was, she most likely would have died.
The foster parents are launching adoption proceedings. The mom (Atkinson)is a fat pig to say the least. They need to starve her for about 8 weeks, then lock her in a cell with Andrea Yates and a full bathtub of water. Let Barbara Atkinson try to eat Andrea Yates while Andrea tries to give her a bath!!!!