Greegor
February 17th 07, 05:45 PM
$4256 per month! Yowzers, some real humanitarians!
On Feb 16, 1:15 pm, fx > wrote:
> http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAGED_CHILDREN?SITE=CAPAD&SECT...
>
> http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/NEWS02...
>
> Ohio: Child Collecting Foster Adopters Sentenced To Prison
>
> Some might think a couple who adopted eleven children out of foster care
> were philanthropists, but when you realize they got adoption subsidy
> payments of $4256 per month, it is hard to see mere kindness as a
> motive. And with so many children, a Norwalk, Ohio couple apparently
> didn't know what to do, like the old lady in the shoe. So they kept some
> of the kids in cages made of wire and wood.
>
> Last March a judge decided to terminate their rights to all eleven
> children, ages 2 to 15, after he determined that at least eight of them
> had been abused in the Gravelle home.
>
> According to an Associated Press article dated February 15, 2007,
> Michael Gravelle said, "What do you do with these kids?" He said he
> prayed for an answer and built cages at the suggestion of social
> workers. His wife, Susan Gravelle, said the children were never confined
> as punishment. She claimed the cages were there to protect them. She
> said one of the children wanted to jump from a second-story window.
>
> Two of the eleven children wrote statements that were read in court. A
> boy wrote about how grateful he was for his new fosterers. "Because of
> them I don't have to steal food," he said. "I can use the bathroom
> whenever I want. Never again will I have to sleep in a box."
>
> A girl's statement read, "Mom, you walked around like you were God, then
> whenever you did go places you were Mother Teresa taking in the poor
> black kids that no one wanted." She also said that the Gravelles "are
> grown adults who know the difference between right and wrong. So I ask
> that they get as much time in jail for as long as my siblings had to be
> in cages."
>
> A social worker and others testifying for the Gravelles said the
> children's behavior improved because of the cages, which were painted
> bright red and blue, but the sheriff said the cages were urine stained
> and lacked pillows and mattresses. One boy claimed to have lived
> confined to a bathroom for 81 days, and an expert for the defense
> claimed this imprisonment helped the child.
>
> In any case, the decision has been made. The Gravelles have sentenced to
> two years in prison because they adopted so many "special needs"
> children, that even with $4256 in adoption subsidy payments every month,
> they didn't know what to do. Michael Gravelle said when they got into
> foster-adopting they felt "led by the Lord". Perhaps if they hadn't
> adopted so many kids, it wouldn't have led to this.
>
> FX wrote: Big Government Child Auction Tonight, All Net, All Channels,
>
> come and get them before they run out of stock....
>
> State approved pedophiles and human trafficers welcome..
>
> Original loving parents need not apply or attend...
>
> See...
>
> Ted Gunderson FBI Senior Special Agent In Charge Los Angeles CA, (Ret)
> Speech to Congressional Hearing on Child Protection
> Ted Gunderson : in regards to Child Protective Services in some areas
> and some states, I have been told by a reliable source,
> that a planeload of 210 children from CPS was flown out of Denver,
> Colorado on November 6, 1997 to Paris, France.
> Later a second plane of children also under the care of CPS was flown
> from Los Angeles to Europe. "CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY"
> I have also developed information through credible and reliable sources
> that in the past, children have been taken from Foster Homes,
> orphanages, and Boys Town Nebraska, and flown by private jets from Sioux
> City Iowa to Washington D.C. for sex orgies with politicians.
>
> http://educate-yourself.org/tg/childprotectionspeech13mar04.shtml
>
> and
>
> The Johnny Gosch Foundation
>
> "...to bring awareness of human trafficking and pedophilia to the world..."
>
> http://www.johnnygosch.com/
On Feb 16, 1:15 pm, fx > wrote:
> http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAGED_CHILDREN?SITE=CAPAD&SECT...
>
> http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/NEWS02...
>
> Ohio: Child Collecting Foster Adopters Sentenced To Prison
>
> Some might think a couple who adopted eleven children out of foster care
> were philanthropists, but when you realize they got adoption subsidy
> payments of $4256 per month, it is hard to see mere kindness as a
> motive. And with so many children, a Norwalk, Ohio couple apparently
> didn't know what to do, like the old lady in the shoe. So they kept some
> of the kids in cages made of wire and wood.
>
> Last March a judge decided to terminate their rights to all eleven
> children, ages 2 to 15, after he determined that at least eight of them
> had been abused in the Gravelle home.
>
> According to an Associated Press article dated February 15, 2007,
> Michael Gravelle said, "What do you do with these kids?" He said he
> prayed for an answer and built cages at the suggestion of social
> workers. His wife, Susan Gravelle, said the children were never confined
> as punishment. She claimed the cages were there to protect them. She
> said one of the children wanted to jump from a second-story window.
>
> Two of the eleven children wrote statements that were read in court. A
> boy wrote about how grateful he was for his new fosterers. "Because of
> them I don't have to steal food," he said. "I can use the bathroom
> whenever I want. Never again will I have to sleep in a box."
>
> A girl's statement read, "Mom, you walked around like you were God, then
> whenever you did go places you were Mother Teresa taking in the poor
> black kids that no one wanted." She also said that the Gravelles "are
> grown adults who know the difference between right and wrong. So I ask
> that they get as much time in jail for as long as my siblings had to be
> in cages."
>
> A social worker and others testifying for the Gravelles said the
> children's behavior improved because of the cages, which were painted
> bright red and blue, but the sheriff said the cages were urine stained
> and lacked pillows and mattresses. One boy claimed to have lived
> confined to a bathroom for 81 days, and an expert for the defense
> claimed this imprisonment helped the child.
>
> In any case, the decision has been made. The Gravelles have sentenced to
> two years in prison because they adopted so many "special needs"
> children, that even with $4256 in adoption subsidy payments every month,
> they didn't know what to do. Michael Gravelle said when they got into
> foster-adopting they felt "led by the Lord". Perhaps if they hadn't
> adopted so many kids, it wouldn't have led to this.
>
> FX wrote: Big Government Child Auction Tonight, All Net, All Channels,
>
> come and get them before they run out of stock....
>
> State approved pedophiles and human trafficers welcome..
>
> Original loving parents need not apply or attend...
>
> See...
>
> Ted Gunderson FBI Senior Special Agent In Charge Los Angeles CA, (Ret)
> Speech to Congressional Hearing on Child Protection
> Ted Gunderson : in regards to Child Protective Services in some areas
> and some states, I have been told by a reliable source,
> that a planeload of 210 children from CPS was flown out of Denver,
> Colorado on November 6, 1997 to Paris, France.
> Later a second plane of children also under the care of CPS was flown
> from Los Angeles to Europe. "CHILD SEX TRADE INDUSTRY"
> I have also developed information through credible and reliable sources
> that in the past, children have been taken from Foster Homes,
> orphanages, and Boys Town Nebraska, and flown by private jets from Sioux
> City Iowa to Washington D.C. for sex orgies with politicians.
>
> http://educate-yourself.org/tg/childprotectionspeech13mar04.shtml
>
> and
>
> The Johnny Gosch Foundation
>
> "...to bring awareness of human trafficking and pedophilia to the world..."
>
> http://www.johnnygosch.com/