Another horrific case of child abuse in Florida. Have some parents lost their minds?

[mfcorey1]

LAKEWOOD PARK—
For the short-haired girl, about 12, life was a demeaning ordeal except for school and sleeping, according to neighbors and St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office reports.

At her parents' direction, she was kept outside working, doing such things as picking up pine needles until there was just bare sand.

Or she washed her family's laundry.Or walked the dogs and then came home to her bathroom, a portion of the backyard of their single-family home in the 8400 block of Pensacola Road, according to Sheriff's Office reports.

Her bed was the floor. "It was like the Cinderella story," said neighbor, April Jordan.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/fl-fort-pierce-parents-20110411,0,2859562.story

[Ilsa]

1. I'm so disgusted with people like this. That poor child. Was she in school?

Didn't teachers notice something was wrong, like her getting bug bites or lice? Being dirty? Anything? Or were they the ones that turned her case in?

[Lyric]

2. It's times like this that I wish most that I was wealthy.

I'd adopt a dozen kids like this, just to prove to them that not all adults are untrustworthy, predatory monsters. The stepmother was the main abuser, but the father obviously did nothing to stop it. He's just as guilty as she is.

My heart aches for that girl. :(

[Obamanaut]

3. I'm disgusted by people like *this* "...I kind of wanted to say something...

But we have to live next door..."

[distantearlywarning]

4. Yeah, that pissed me off too.

What a fucking coward. :nuke: :grr:

People like that neighbor are why the world sucks.