Mom who kept son in cage gets 20 years
A woman who kept her 17-year-old adopted son in a cage, while also causing him to become seriously malnourished, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Not enough, in our opinion.
Brenda Sullivan pleaded guilty in January to three counts of aggravated child abuse. Prosecutors agreed to drop lesser child neglect charges.
The teen weighed 49 pounds when child welfare workers found him in 2005 in what appeared to be a cage. Sullivan told a judge at the time that Ohio authorities told her to keep the boy, who had severe medical and emotional problems, in a crib.
“There’s only one conclusion when you look at the medical evidence in this case, and that is that she literally starved him,” prosecutor Julie Schlax said.
Two other children, 13-year-old twins the Sullivans adopted as infants, both testified they were kept in similar cages.
Information from: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/23/cage...
