12-Year-Old Girl Locked in Closet For a Year Because She Wanted to Eat, Say Texas Police

[Liberal_in_LA]

12-Year-Old Girl Locked in Closet For a Year Because She Wanted to Eat, Say Texas Police

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (CBS/AP) Alfredo and Leticia Ines locked their 12-year-old daughter in a closet for nearly a year with no light and minimal contact with the world, according to Texas police.

Photo: Leticia Ines' mug shot.

The girl was released to go to school, eat or use the bathroom in the family's small home, officials said. She would do her homework by a thin sliver of light shining beneath the closet door.

One of her three brothers came to her rescue by alerting school officials. Her mother, Leticia Ines, told police she was trying to keep the 12-year-old from stealing food from the refrigerator.





http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/02/crimesider/entry6165875.shtml

[virgogal]

1. I actually yelled out loud when I saw the header to this post. God !!!

[lonestarnot]

2. I say lock both of them in a box for the rest of, well maybe 3/4 of their lives.

That is if the facts are as stated.

[bluestateguy]

3. Looks like her cow of a mother didn't miss too many meals

nt

[msanthrope]

6. Neither parent looks like they missed any meals--pieces of crap. n/t

[The Doctor.]

14. My first thought.

Poor dear must have sacrificed so much.

[Raine]

4. The mother certainly looks well-fed

I guess she was afraid to lose a few crumbs of food to the daughter. x(

[iamjoy]

5. What Idiots

If you are worried about your child overeating and all "reason" has failed, lock the refrigerator - not the child. duh!

[bread_and_roses]

7. the nuclear family strikes again (n/t)

[DRoseDARs]

8. Well, the good news is once the other inmates find out what these two are in for, they're both dead.

There isn't a violin small enough or a song sad enough to be played for either of them. :nopity:

[Aristus]

12. Whenever I hear about some horrible criminal act committed against a child,

I always take comfort in the fact that many of the people behind bars have children of their own, and don't take kindly to monsters who abuse little kids. The system has a way of taking care of these offenders...

[4_TN_TITANS]

18. That's whats odd...

I spent 45 days once locked up with some of the worst fathers around, but let an accused or guilty child abuser in and the other inmates let 'em have it. The guy accused of killing his infant son had to be rescued and carried out by the guards one night. I think they stuck him in the common cell on purpose.

[Emit]

9. This reminds me of a similar story from our area in N NV: Children locked in bathroom for five years

CARSON CITY - A tiny girl found pushing a shopping cart Thursday
afternoon told a horrifying story to deputies that resulted in the
arrest of her mother, grandmother and mother's boyfriend, officials
said.

According to officials, Regina Rios, 33, Tomas Granados, 33 and Esther
Rios, 56, kept the malnourished 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old
brother locked and starving in a bathroom at 1404 Como St., No. 2.
Investigators believe the children had been kept in there for years.

Granados and the Rios women were booked into the Carson City Jail on
suspicion of child neglect and false imprisonment.

Sgt. Bob White of the Carson City Sheriff's Department said deputies
responded to a report of an unsupervised 8-year-old pushing a shopping
cart near East Second and Harbin streets at 1:52 p.m. When officers
found the 41-pound, 4-foot-tall girl, she said she'd just escaped from
the bathroom in which she and her little brother were kept.

"She said when her grandmother opened the door, she pushed her inside
and locked the deadbolt," White said. The girl had filled the cart with
food from the house and was trying to run away, he said ...
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.true-crime/2006-01/msg02676.html

with photos of the parents
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=NA&Date=20060225&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=102250061&Ref=AR&maxw=300&MaxH=300
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20060225/NEWS/102250061/0/REGION

[cutlassmama]

17. another fat pig in the picture

[Emit]

20. There are a lot of similarities between these two stories

[TexasObserver]

10. What is wrong with parents like these two?!

How does a parent ever do this? It's mind boggling.

[JI7]

11. "One of her three brothers came to her rescue by alerting school officials"

good for him and they should check if there was any other abuse.

[Initech]

13. OK so gay people cannot get married but these idiots can.

:argh:

[berni_mccoy]

15. Damn, I hate stories like this! WTF!

[troubledamerican]

16. Didn't Texas blame the child?

Texas usually comes through shining.

[malaise]

19. Looks like Ma didn't want to share the food

Throw away the key