Death is too nice for these two...

[southsider2k5]

WAKEMAN, OHIO -- Sheriff's deputies found 11 children locked in cages less than 31/2 feet high inside a home, but a couple denied they had abused or neglected the children.

 

A judge on Monday put the children, who range in age from 1 to 14, in foster homes.

 

The children were found in nine cages built into the walls of the house near this small city in northern Ohio, according to the Huron County Sheriff's Office.

 

Sharen and Mike Gravelle are adoptive or foster parents for all 11 children, officials said. No charges had been filed as of Monday night.

 

Appearing with a lawyer at a hearing, the Gravelles denied they had abused or neglected the children.

 

The radio version of the story that I heard said that at least some of the kids were also disabled, including Downs and Autism.

[Texsox]

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The radio version of the story that I heard said that at least some of the kids were also disabled, including Downs and Autism.

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There are reasonable methods of giving a timeout. This is not one of them.

 

The denial of abuse & neglect is not surprising. That's how the system works.

Demonstrate that the criminals had no knowledge of what was right & wrong in the situation & hope the court will be leniant. Either that or shoot for an insanity plea.

 

Perhaps the best sentence for these two would be a cell with similar dimensions to what they had built for their foster children. I imagine the tallest of their foster children could not move in such a cell. It would be a fitting sentence.

[The Critic]

 

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Tex, you beat your husband???

 

Seriously, those "parents" need a cage of their own for a bunch of years.

[southsider2k5]

Tex, you beat your husband???

 

 

Seriously, those "parents" need a cage of their own for a bunch of years.

 

I guess this would be one case where Hamarobi's code will actually take place.

[Texsox]

I guess this would be one case where Hamarobi's code will actually take place.

 

Is it not Hammurabi's code? And IIRC each one ends in he shall be put to death. Either the accused or the accuser. Loser pays.

BTW, does my warning level go up again for overzealous grammar policing wink.gif?

[southsider2k5]

Is it not Hammurabi's code? And IIRC each one ends in he shall be put to death. Either the accused or the accuser. Loser pays.

BTW, does my warning level go up again for overzealous grammar policing wink.gif?

 

I don't think all of them end in death. It was much more for the punishment fit the crime. For example a thief would have his hand cut off.

[Texsox]

There are a whole lot more. I believe in modern times this is known as the WSI Code of Conduct as written BY George.

 

The Code of Laws

 

1. If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.

 

2. If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.

 

3. If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.

 

4. If he satisfy the elders to impose a fine of grain or money, he shall receive the fine that the action produces.

 

5. If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement.

 

6. If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.

 

7. If any one buy from the son or the slave of another man, without witnesses or a contract, silver or gold, a male or female slave, an ox or a sheep, an ass or anything, or if he take it in charge, he is considered a thief and shall be put to death.

 

8. If any one steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirtyfold therefor; if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death.

9. If any one lose an article, and find it in the possession of another: if the person in whose possession the thing is found say "A merchant sold it to me, I paid for it before witnesses," and if the owner of the thing say, "I will bring witnesses who know my property," then shall the purchaser bring the merchant who sold it to him, and the witnesses before whom he bought it, and the owner shall bring witnesses who can identify his property. The judge shall examine their testimony -- both of the witnesses before whom the price was paid, and of the witnesses who identify the lost article on oath. The merchant is then proved to be a thief and shall be put to death. The owner of the lost article receives his property, and he who bought it receives the money he paid from the estate of the merchant.

 

10. If the purchaser does not bring the merchant and the witnesses before whom he bought the article, but its owner bring witnesses who identify it, then the buyer is the thief and shall be put to death, and the owner receives the lost article.

 

11. If the owner do not bring witnesses to identify the lost article, he is an evil-doer, he has traduced, and shall be put to death.

 

12. If the witnesses be not at hand, then shall the judge set a limit, at the expiration of six months. If his witnesses have not appeared within the six months, he is an evil-doer, and shall bear the fine of the pending case.

 

14. If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death.