Boy, 7, was tortured to death and fed to pigs. State agencies failed him, says lawsuit.
Source: Washington Post
Adrian Jones’s short, tortured life was spent isolated from outsiders, confined in filthy, mice-infested houses where he was “home-schooled” by the parents who ultimately killed him, according to court documents.
But the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and stepmother were meticulously documented, through dozens of surveillance cameras. As his family moved from place to place across Kansas and Missouri, his stepmother captured photos of the horrors, images stored online and later recovered by authorities.
His was a brief life of great suffering, as described by police and prosecutors. The story has been extensively reported by the Kansas City Star and other local media, including KSHB.
In several instances, Adrian was shown strapped to a table and blindfolded, or standing in neck-deep water in the family’s dirty swimming pool overnight. In other photographs, his mouth looks bloody and bruised, his teeth rotting, his hands swollen from being restrained, the Kansas City Star reported. In another picture, Adrian appears to be tied up with a plate of food in front of him, a bar of soap in his mouth.
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Americans have no lock on sick psychopaths...I remember reading, not long ago, of two German "cannibals", one who asked the other to kill and cook him. Then there was that nice Austrian man who confined his daughter to a hidden room to keep her as his secret incestuous sex slave. By the time she escaped, she'd born a number of his children...It's a sick, fucking world out there.
I get tired of that "continuing self-congratulatory boosterism" too. I actually haven't heard the "only in America" trope in response to the current disaster, but I have heard it in situations where, like you, I thought "Oh, bullshit -- this would happen anywhere"
Similarly, I get tired of hearing certain fellow Americans (usually politicians) calling the US "the greatest country in the world". For one thing, I'd guess most people feel that way about their own countries, for another, I don't think it's true. It may have been at one time, but not now, nor, I'd say, for awhile.
Whatever the truth, it's WAY overdone and at times, almost feels like a brainwashing attempt. The worse it gets, the more I keep hearing how great it is.
Even when they know what's going on, usually their hands are tied.
It's pathetic and spineless, but laws are in place to prevent it. I guess these parents knew how to exploit the laws and they took advantage. That poor child! You wonder why other family members didn't stand up to them. (I guess his biological mother tried to get him away.)
I wouldn't call it that, old or not.
No words.
who was his first wife. I can't be sure but the 2nd wife definitely went along with it.
Sickness, cruelty - the poor child would have been better off in an orphanage or foster home.
and WHY did the state repeatedly fail to act? 
