This is a REALLY gross one.
A 14-year-old boy, severely mentally disabled, wearing only a T-shirt, lying in the backyard and not breathing.
As he was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said they made a gruesome discovery inside. Four children — ages 12 to 18 — who had never been to school, living with more than 200 animals in a home covered by feces and infested with spiders and hundreds of hissing cockroaches that measured four to five inches….The boy was taken to MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, where he later was pronounced dead. An autopsy determined he died of natural causes related to bronchopneumonia, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A decrepit house filled with filthy and mistreated animals will kill you just as dead as gunshot. But only the gunshot kills. Does this case pull on your heart strings less because no guns were used?
I think its worse…but then again I believe in Freedom.
h/t chifjaybob
The only thing one can focus on in a story like this is that those children and animals are saved from clearly mental unstable, uncaring adults – and that with ( a lot ) of help, they have a chance at a better life. It is horrible that the 14 year old died. His death, however – is not for naught. He saved the others in the house by exposing what was going on. He should be remembered as such.
I really don’t care what an adult chooses to do with their life. It is not my business. It becomes my business when children or animals become involved. It is unconscionable that such an environment existed.
I hope those parents / adults get the punishment / mental illness treatment / Karma they so clearly deserve.
And cue some media pundit calling for an end to those “Stupid Christian Homeschoolers” in 3… 2… 1
Hundreds of nearly half-foot hissing cockroaches? I don’t allow anything with more than four legs and less than half an inch houseroom in my home, PERIOD.
Excuse me while I go cuddle a can of Raid and bathe in bleach to make myself feel clean after reading this story…
The bigger they are the easier they are to shoot! I’m just sayin’