WAKEMAN, Ohio - Sheriff’s deputies found 11 children locked in cages less than 3½ feet high inside a home, but a couple denied they had abused or neglected the children.
A judge on Monday put the children — who range in age from 1 to 14 and who have various disabilities, including autism — in foster homes.
The children were found in nine cages built into the walls of the house near this small city in northern Ohio, according to the Huron County Sheriff’s Office. They had no blankets or pillows, and the cages were rigged with alarms that sounded if opened, Lt. Randy Sommers said.
The children told authorities they slept in the cages — 40 inches high and 40 inches deep — at night. Doors to some of the cages were blocked with heavy furniture. (full story)
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Just so you know, adoption isn't the savior that it is seemingly always purported to be. Many children who are adopted live very happy lives. However, many others find themselves abused, neglected, or even given away. Yes, given away.
Somewhere between 10 and 25% of all children who are adopted are "returned" to the adoption agency either before the paperwork is finalized (disrupted adoption) or afterwards (dissolved adoption). Older children and children with more abusive histories are the most likely to be returned. Most of these children end up in foster homes. While foster homes can be a wonderful alternative to an abusive home, abuse has been well documented in foster homes for a long time as well. For more about disrupted adoption, check out a short discussion in Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.
This gets me to thinking about abortion. I wonder if, when a fetus is aborted, it has a soul. If it has a soul, what is to say that the soul is not recycled to another fetus? If that is the case, then it would seem that a "life" has not really been killed because it will be allowed to live on. If the soul is not allowed to continue, then of course it is unfair that that soul didn't get to continue in life. But I guess all of that is speculation. Anyhow, if the soul is recycled to another fetus, then I would much rather have it recycled than to have to live through an unwanted childhood if that was going to be the case.
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