Seeing this video makes me angry all over.

[Soccermom]

I remember hearing about this story a few years ago and being heartbroken. Seeing the video just breaks my heart more. This video shows the 16 year old boy in Tracy who escaped his imprisonment by running into the local gym. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.d...IA03/101139991

[Donuthole]

Maybe I live in a cave, but I'm not familiar with this story. Can you provide a quick summary?

EDIT: Ok, through some googling I figured it out. I didn't ever find any details about how he ended up in captivity. Was he kidnapped from somewhere, or were these people who were his foster parents who were torturing him?

[Soccermom]

Maybe I live in a cave, but I'm not familiar with this story. Can you provide a quick summary?

EDIT: Ok, through some googling I figured it out. I didn't ever find any details about how he ended up in captivity. Was he kidnapped from somewhere, or were these people who were his foster parents who were torturing him?

Sorry. I didn't post enough details. The boy was held captive in his home by neighbors and his guardian. He was chained up and severely tortured and decided to escape the day he felt that his life was in danger. He jumped from a trampoline onto a sound wall and then rolled to the other side and ran to the gym in nothing but gray boxers and the remainder of the chain around his ankle. He was 5'8" tall and 100 lbs that day.
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-cou...nclick_check=1

[old_gregg]

Sorry. I didn't post enough details. The boy was held captive in his home by neighbors and his guardian. He was chained up and severely tortured and decided to escape the day he felt that his life was in danger. He jumped from a trampoline onto a sound wall and then rolled to the other side and ran to the gym in nothing but gray boxers and the remainder of the chain around his ankle. He was 5'8" tall and 100 lbs that day.
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-cou...nclick_check=1

these people need to be tortured. they chained him up in a fireplace, and occasionally woke him up by lighting fires. they would heat up an aluminum baseball bat and brand his back. they also cut off portions of his skin with knives, and generally just did some horrid things to him. some pretty unbelievable shit happened to this kid.

[Mrs. Funk]

I can't imagine being a defense attorney in this kind of case and having to question a victim of such heinous abuse. I hope the kid is in some damn good counseling and that he can life as happy a life as possible from hereon out.

[KillerDog]

I will never understand this type of thing.

[wuapinmon]

I will never understand this type of thing.

There is such a thing as evil. We scoff at it, but it does exist.

[KillerDog]

There is such a thing as evil. We scoff at it, but it does exist.

Acknowledging its existence and understanding it are two different things. I don't understand it. I don't understand why the Ramirez woman would have encouraged this boy to run away from a group home if she couldn't afford to care for him. I don't know why these people would gang up on this boy to mistreat him. I don't understand any of it. Worst of all, I don't understand how imprisonment is sufficient punishment for any of them.

[wuapinmon]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361741/Sadistic-monster-tortured-boy-chained-furniture-given-life-sentences.html

Not new, but I came across this today.

[falafel]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...sentences.html

Not new, but I came across this today.

The guy gets 3 life sentences, but is eligible for parole after 19 years. Meanwhile, the other defendants make a deal and serve at least 30 years. If it was their plea deal that helped put the Waiters away, they might be a little annoyed.

[Jacob]

The guy gets 3 life sentences, but is eligible for parole after 19 years. Meanwhile, the other defendants make a deal and serve at least 30 years. If it was their plea deal that helped put the Waiters away, they might be a little annoyed.

Didn't they get a 30 year sentence? That would make them eligible for parole before the 19 years the life sentence gets, right?

[UtahDan]

There is such a thing as evil. We scoff at it, but it does exist.

In each of us.

[wuapinmon]

In each of us.

I agree.