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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SilverOrchid on July 31, 2009, 02:50:47 PM
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Kids to cops: Mom used attic as lockup when angry
By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Glen Johnson, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 7 mins ago
LOWELL, Mass. – Police responding to a report of a 3-year-old being locked in a sweltering, filthy attic were told by other children, "Mommy does this when she gets angry," a prosecutor said Friday.
Kristen Paquette, 27, was charged with reckless endangerment to a child and assault and battery on a child and was being held on $10,000 bail after arraignment Friday in Lowell District Court. Her family and attorney portrayed her as an overwhelmed mother dealing with an especially unruly child.
Police said the boy was naked, covered in urine and feces, and had several minor bumps on his forehead when officers acting on a tip went to Paquette's Lowell apartment Thursday. They estimated the temperature inside the attic at over 100 degrees. The door to the room was locked, and the only window inside was nailed shut, said prosecutor Dan Harren. Feces-covered child-size fingerprints were on the wall, he said.
Outside the attic was a similarly filthy mattress, surrounded by hundreds of flies, Harren said. Health officials condemned the apartment afterward.
Officers said another boy and a girl at the home told them Paquette took the 3-year-old by his arms "and dragged him upstairs to the attic." The children told officers such things happened "a lot."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090731/ap_on_re_us/us_locked_in_attic
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Words fail....where's gun when I need one?
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What is scary is that she could still keep the other kids because she never hurt them before. Not likely, but it's happened before.
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She should be locked in the attic....permanently.
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Formerlurker--get out of MA while you still can.
We're just going to have to nuke it from orbit--it's the only way to be sure.