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.

[Popman]

Given the orientation of these ladies, they already removed themselves from the pool.

Probably true, but let's execute them just because they deserve it and justice be done

I know it's archaic and mean spirited to expect these two reprobates to get what they deserve, but hey, I'm an old fashioned type of guy

[maggief]

Baker Co. Sheriff Joey Dobson said the boy was born in California. The mother was arrested and jailed in San Bernardino for meth possession. The child was then turned over to the father, who didn’t want to take care of him. The father then gave the child to his aunt, who later died. Before she died she left the child with her partner, Suzette Stevenson; Stevenson then moved to Baker County Florida. The child was put into a Pre-K program in Baker County in June 2007, but then was withdrawn.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4992667&version=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

Stevenson brought the child to the First Coast from San Bernardino in California.

The child’s parents are in jail, and his aunt - who had custody - died.

Stevenson met Martin online, and agreed to move here.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/mostpopular/news-article.aspx?storyid=96026&provider=top

[Popman]

Given the orientation of these ladies, they already removed themselves from the pool.

Not to be picky, but these two sows are not "ladies"

[maggief]

The boy was born in 2000 in California. After his mother became involved in drugs, he was taken away from the mother and given to his father, Baker County Sheriff Joey Dobson told ABC News. The father, who allegedly did not want to care for the child, gave him to an aunt, who was in a relationship with Stevenson.

Dobson said that Stevenson then purchased an illegal birth certificate for the boy after his aunt, her domestic partner, died. “It’s not legally sound at all in any way shape or form,” he said. Stevenson then came to Baker County, Fla., in September 2005 to meet Martin, whom she had developed a relationship with over the Internet, Dobson said.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3893712&page=1

[Ace's Dad]

I wish there was a way we could send these people to Hell.

Don't worry about it, it's been taken care of...

[tioga]

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.

Praise God this little boy was delivered from evil. THIS Thanksgiving he can eat and watch the parades like a normal child. May God continue to bless his life.

[Thumper1960]

As you sit down to dinner, may you also look upon your young loved ones with protective eyes and vow that your humanity never disappears, as it has with these two wastes of "human" skin.

No young child should ever be treated as less than human.

[pollywog]

hang them!! as a veteran foster parent, this made me sick just now. Probably two lesbians taking their anger out on a innocent child.God help our land!!!

[pollywog]

OH SICK!!!!!!!!GOD HELP OUR LAND!!!!

[alicewonders]

I’m with you. Prison is too good for these abominable dykes - if fact, I think prison would be a place that these demons would enjoy, locked up with all those other women.

They need to be executed - and the punishment should fit the crime. First, they should be tied to the wall and slowly be starved to death........

[Earthdweller]

"No young child should ever be treated as less than human."

Amen.

Now everyone go out there and hug their sons!!

[Alouette]

GUILTY! and GUILTY!

[xsmommy]

what is WRONG with people? good GRIEF.

[Popman]

First, they should be tied to the wall and slowly be starved to death........

Based on her picture that may take a really loooong time.........

[maggief]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3893712&page=2

In interviews with investigators, each woman blamed the other for leading the abuse, according the sheriff’s office documents. Stevenson said that Martin didn’t like the boy because he was mixed race. Martin countered in her interview that Stevenson would keep the boy out of school because she feared his teachers would notice injuries he sustained due to their abuse.

[Thumper1960]

Hug your sons and your daughters.

[tioga]

Makes me believe that Satan himself is harvesting souls in this world.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Mark my words: These “two sows” are gonna cry a river about being abused in prison, not having enough to eat, enough games to play, enough entertainment. Liberals will come to their rescue with one law suit after another demanding better treatment and/or release from prison.

[atomic conspiracy]

"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

Matthew 18:6 KJV

[Dudoight]

THANKS THANKS THANKS for the link to that site. I have lately been wanting to find a reference book (Concordance) for Bible verses and different translations. I had no idea it was on the net.

THANK YOU....WOW!