Malnourished boy rescued at buffet

Orlando Sentinel ^ | 11-21-07 | Amy L. Edwards

[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.

[fortunecookie]

I was 45 lbs at age 8. I was a preemie and was quite thin and small for my age, until about age 10 or 11 and hit puberty early. Still, he must have looked gaunt.

Poor thing. Can I please please put my cigs out in these women’s ears. Or other cavities?

Tempting. I don't smoke, but I have to agree. Two grown women without one motherly bone between them. Disgusting, nauseating what they did to him.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I have read that pain --- severe, repeated, prolonged pain ---can affect anatomical (structural) brain development, as well as physiological response patterns, in the young, whose brains are still developing. And the effect can be lifelong.

Why some children are more resilient, and some more vulnerable, I do not know. Some abused children develop a multiple personality disorcdr, seemingly by "walling off" the memories which are unbearbale, and then constructing new personalities out of what's left. Some people evidently can develop a dozen distinct personalities.

Also called Dissociative Identity Disorder. Fascinating, in its way, and so sad.

[Brytani]

I can’t type what I’m thinking or I’ll get banned...

[GOPJ]

Thanks to the Westgate security team, Sheriff’s Office,

Berrios, Steve Siegel and Humberto Garcia for saving this child’s life. There are good people — and they’re watching.

[Sherman Logan]

Yes, very sad.

My point is not that some children are not permanently affected, with their lives largely permanently ruined; it was that many, perhaps most, are not.

[HamiltonJay]

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.

Poor child, winds up in the custody of non related lesbian who drags him along and treats him like an animal! But hey, its just a lifestyle choice (rolling eyes).

[GOPJ]

I have always, in my heart of hearts, had a hard time with the doctrine of Hell, but this kind of story sure makes me waver.

Don't waver. A loving God isn't going to reward these monsters... then again, maybe he'll give them a second and third chance - they can be born into a family that abuses them the way they abused this innocent child.

[gracesdad]

“God protect children being raised by lesbians.”

Not sure this has anything to do with them being lesbians. Or did you miss the recent story about the man and woman who beat up and killed Baby Grace?

[CORedneck]

Where is the soap for my eyes ? Ugh !!!! Whee is a pic of Hilliary, that is something nicer to look at ! I can't stand to look at these sturdy women or should I say, butches !

The two wenches need to be hung with piano wire !

[brwnsuga]

Rosie O’Donell parts I and II

[Scotswife]

“This is one thing I truly do not understanding about lesbians. They hate men so much yet all the while they are trying desperately to look like men. What’s up with that?”

I’ve wondered the same thing.
Same goes with the, ummm “toys” they strap on for each other.
If they hate men so much, why are they “simulating” them in the bedroom?

[subterfuge]

I thought homosexuals were all supposed to be so caring and loving? How could this be? Maybe that’s just a lie?

[freedombird]

Oh Yeah.......they hate men.......no question!!

[The KG9 Kid]

This is about the ninth story I've read where two butch lesbians the size of a Mack truck wearing the uniform of the man-hating lesbo have tortured a little boy they're calling their son.

Excuse me for spotting trends.

[Earthdweller]

Because a better name for some of them is not homosexual but anti-heterosexual.

[JosephineMO6]

And we were treated like crap too. I can recall being about 6 or 7 and being tossed out of one of her girlfriends houses with a bag of chips and 2 or 3 sodas with a bunch of other kids who’s moms were there. They were in there smoking pot and doing whatever while we were on the front porch starving. They didn’t care. It has more to do with a good grounding in reality than it has to do with hatred of men.