Ok, the world is fucked

[tamakun]

Well, I think we knew that already.

I don't watch the news regularly. But when I hear that two boys were locked in cages for the majority of 13 years, it makes me seriously ill. (And I thought my headcold was bad.)

And what's more, the judge sees it fit to give the two parents a 9-month jail term. 9 MONTHS. For 26 total years of confinement of these two adopted kids.

The report says that the parents are not sadistic. There's certainly something wrong with them, though. Even when I was a kid I was sent to my room or spanked as punishment. But not The mother apparently has a couple of mental illnesses. 13 years ago, when the parents wanted to adopt, were they not checked for these types of problems? If the father is in perfect mental health, did he not see that locking children up during their preteen years was a bad thing? Does the adoption centre not do follow-ups?

Fuck! The system has failed yet again. The adoption centre, the community (if they were even aware), the sentence... It really doesn't give me much hope for the human race as a whole.

Comments

[sierralad.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, the kids suffer from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. The adoptive parents are, in fact, the kids' aunt and uncle. These kids also ate their own feces and drank their own urine because they were afraid to leave evidence of "accidents" and they were thirsty.

You're right, and those kids are right. 9 months is a joke.

So is the slap on the wrist Izaak's assailant got.

"... with liberty and justice for none." -- Lisa Simpson

[mindmade.livejournal.com]

Wow this really gets to you... Not that I blame you, it should because it's horrible. When I read it I more or less waved it off as another horrble sadistic event like setting babykittens on fire or smacking babies to dead for attention (I read too much dailyrotten, after a period after 9/11 even watching a pillowfactory on fire made me cry, now it seems I'm getting more and more numb) and all I wondered was how the hell they could get away with it, if they didn't have visitors of wheter there weren't any checkups from the adoption centre.

Anyways I agree, it's horrid and the adoption system failed horribly. I hope they'll pull the right strings to prevent these things from happening in the future.

[liradralyn.livejournal.com]

The real tragedy here is that there are waiting-lists 1000 miles long of people wanting to adopt children. Healthy, well-adjusted, intelligent, nurturing people. There literally aren't enough kids to go around. So why the hell does something like this need to happen? It's not like the government has to scrape the bottom of the adoption-list barrel just to find homes for these kids.

[angel-machine.livejournal.com]

that's the exact opposite of america. there are way too many kids, most of whom have real problems, and nobody wants to adopt them. and the people that do have to go through so much paperwork... and then there are the ones that adopt 15 children just for the government stipend, and lock their kids up in basements. another case of that just happened near where i live...

THE FUCK???

[wicabeth.livejournal.com]

*shudders* God, that makes me ill and really scares the shit out of me. I'm adopted myself and my parents have told me about all the crap they had to go through.
I mean, we're talking about like FBI-like shit.
It scares me to no end that something like this could have happened to me when I was going to be adopted.

Re: THE FUCK???

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

The stuff that your parents went through were definitely for your safety and security. I don't know how much Canada's adoption laws differ from the States, though it seems like they're quite different. I think Canada needs to change their adoption laws/rules (like you said, FBI-style - that is, if they haven't changed it since this occured) to prevent anything like this happening again.