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parents tortue kids, pull toenails out with pliers... 14 year old weighed 40 pounds..
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...hildren_dc&e=1
MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida deputies searched on Friday for a fugitive couple accused of beating and chaining five children, pulling out their toenails with pliers and starving them to the point of emaciation. Doctors alerted investigators two weeks ago when the couple's 16-year-old boy, who weighed just 60 pounds, was treated at a hospital for head and neck injuries. The couple, John and Linda Dollar, cared for seven children aged 12 to 17 in their Citrus County home in west central Florida, investigators said. A sheriff's spokeswoman told CNN she had seen photos of the children and, "They have very sweet faces, but when you look at their bodies, I mean, it looks like Auschwitz." Florida's Department of Children and Families took custody of all the children, who said the Dollars beat and punished five of them for stealing food or messing up the house. Two children the siblings described as "the favorites," told investigators they were not abused. The others said the couple shocked them with an electric device, hit their feet with hammers, bound them with chains and pulled off their toenails with pliers. "It became clear to detectives, after speaking with the children, that they had been tortured," sheriff's deputies said in a news release. They said the five children were forced to sleep in a closet, with a chime that sounded if they opened the door. Fourteen-year-old twin boys were the size of preschool children and weighed less than 40 pounds each. The Dollars failed to appear at a child welfare hearing on Monday and were charged with aggravated child abuse. Investigators said they appeared to have packed up and moved out of their three-bedroom home in an upper middle-class development and may have fled in a motor home. The children were not the Dollars' biological children, nor were they foster children, but investigators would not discuss their relation for privacy reasons. The Dollars had been licensed as foster parents in the Tampa area from March to October 1995, and the state had received no previous abuse complaints against them, said Bill D'Aiuto, a spokesman for the Department of Children and Families. He said the children were "safe and they're doing as well as expected under the circumstances." Neighbors told a local newspaper that they had never seen the children, who apparently were schooled at home. |
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I can't even think of a torture good enough for them. Actually, cutting off each of their fingers 1 inch at a time would be a start. I would also smash their faces beyond recognition. It sounds bad I know, but you don't do what they did to anybody, especially little kids. They deserve a lot of pain.
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