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Woman's in trouble for locking grandson in dog crate
Rhonda Lehman punished the boy for lacing his family's drinks with lamp oil and household cleaner. She also told a county agency that if someone didn't come for the boy, she would bury him alive in the back yard. (Associated Press)
January 29, 2008 | Permalink
Comments
Holy crap...this is wrong on every level.
Posted by: yucca | Jan 29, 2008 1:37:53 PM
Lamp oil and household cleaner? WTF is that? There is CYANIDE, and then everything else.
Posted by: Bluntfacts | Jan 29, 2008 1:46:34 PM
wtf is wrong with this society... obviously this boy and his family need help from a psychiatrist er something
Posted by: chris n cali | Jan 29, 2008 1:47:18 PM
Well...one doesn't wonder why this poor kid is so f*cked up. He probably had a good reason for trying to poison the family. Someone call Dr. Phil and Farmer Bob!
Posted by: Cherie | Jan 29, 2008 1:47:56 PM
I'd want to kill this little azzhole too. Hope he likes getting molested in foster care.
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | Jan 29, 2008 1:51:51 PM
I smell a new reality show.
Posted by: stopeatingmysesamecake | Jan 29, 2008 1:52:15 PM
Swarthy
How could even you wish that upon someone? You have hit a new low.
Posted by: tarzan | Jan 29, 2008 2:04:45 PM
I imagine holiday dinners with this family must be a hoot - poisoned food, getting punched by uncles and locked in cages.
Posted by: Rob | Jan 29, 2008 2:07:02 PM
Yeah Swarthy, anything you say from here on out has no credence with me. (not that much of it did before) but anyone that could be so cruel as to wish molestation on a child needs serious SERIOUS help. Karma will get you ...its coming back around!
Posted by: Cherie | Jan 29, 2008 2:07:45 PM
The boy was turned over to county Children and Youth Services, where he is being treated for mental health issues. Ya think?
Posted by: lawdog | Jan 29, 2008 2:08:10 PM
why have we heard nothing about the dog in this?! If I was a dog, I wouldn't want a filthy child locked in MY poopin' crate.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jan 29, 2008 2:13:32 PM
Cherie...I think farmer Bob is due here...This is really F%^&iked Up
Posted by: midwesterngirlonherown | Jan 29, 2008 2:20:10 PM
I don't see what the big deal is. How else was grandma supposed to house train that kid? Just put him in and let him with some treats and a chew toy. As long as she lets him out to potty, there shouldn't be a problem.
Posted by: Naga Please! | Jan 29, 2008 2:27:41 PM
Did I mention that I am also tarzan?
Posted by: Yucca | Jan 29, 2008 2:33:50 PM
Officer Markley summed it up correctly.
Posted by: Sheila | Jan 29, 2008 2:46:40 PM
Sick, sick, sick. All of them.
Posted by: nlr | Jan 29, 2008 2:57:10 PM
You too Swarthy.
Posted by: nlr | Jan 29, 2008 2:58:39 PM
Not even Springer could write this story. This one has it all and then some and you know they are white. Only crazy white people do this kind of stuff.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | Jan 29, 2008 3:07:19 PM
And I worry because my 3 year old *voluntarily* goes in the dog crate and hooks the door closed from inside. He'll actually let the dog out and then go in... poor puppy is mega confused because that's *his* house.
I just hope no one without a sense of humor, or without knowing our family, ever sees that out of context!!
Posted by: LooseyGoosey | Jan 29, 2008 3:14:57 PM
This is another reason the State has no business telling parents how to raise their children. The boy should have been arrested and charged. The grandmother and brother should recieve a award. Has anyone stopped to think that if this piece of garbage can do this to his family what is to say that he doesn't do it to other children who upset him.
Posted by: Justice | Jan 29, 2008 3:16:22 PM
We used to lock grandma in a cage untill she promised to put out.
Posted by: Get Real | Jan 29, 2008 3:21:34 PM
Dysfunction travels for five generations through a family. With some degree of luck, this boy's great-great-great grandchildren will be "NORMAL". It is quite obvious that the two generations preceding him are very dysfunctional. We can try as hard as we're able, but we'll never put "fun" in dys-fun-ctional.
Posted by: Rock Marine | Jan 29, 2008 3:28:15 PM
I agree that grandma has issues and so do the rest of this family, but remember the story a while back about the grandmother that had the grandson that threatened to kill her? He had pushed her to the end of her rope and she wanted him removed from the home for his--and her--good.
Maybe this is one of those cases. The story doesn't say. Could be that she's tried to get help for months or years and been ignored.
Or she could just be nucking futz.
I'd bet there's a trailer involved someplace here.
Posted by: Wolf | Jan 29, 2008 3:57:06 PM
Get Real, odd that you should need such methods of persuasion. My grammy was never so recalcitrant.
Posted by: Dave | Jan 29, 2008 4:12:42 PM
Where was the kid when his family went on this out of town trip that seemed to start this whole thing in the first place and how far did they go?
This whole family seems to have problems. The dad was in federal prison, the mom is gone, the grandma was willing to bury her grandson alive. Even the uncle punched him in the eye.
I am surprised something like this did not happen any time sooner. Everyone in this situation needs major help
Posted by: bulldog129 | Jan 29, 2008 8:41:50 PM
