Denver Child (13) Locked In A Kennel At Night

[Kadie]

May 27, 2006 9:21 am US/Pacific

Denver Child Locked In A Kennel At Night

(CBS) DENVER A grandmother in Commerce City, Colorado has been arrested, accused of locking her grandson in a dog kennel while she went to work.

61-year-old June Candelario is in jail accused of locking her 13-year-old grandson into a kennel measuring 36-by-30-35, which is the size used for large breed dogs.

Police say the teen would be locked in the kennel while the grandmother went to work. Candelario worked from 4 in the afternoon to 2 in the morning as a counselor for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

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Candelario is also a former trooper with the Colorado State Patrol.

more...
http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_147122334.html


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[Roon]

1. I don't get how these twisted people can even function

A state trooper?

[BrklynLiberal]

2. What can one say? This woman must be VERY, VERY sick.

And no word on where the mother or father are.

[Mythsaje]

3. A counselor? WTF?

Great...another seriously fucked up kid inflicted on society.

This woman's punishment won't fit the crime, I'm willing to bet. There's no telling what kind of shit she shoveled into his head, being a counselor and all.

Bitch.

[niyad]

5. in colorado, one can actually get a stiffer sentence for animal abuse than

for child abuse. we had a terrible case in colorado springs that made this one look almost benign, and the MOST those awful people could get was 24 months (and I think it was only a misdemeanor charge, although I may be mistaken there. I know I was outraged enough to call CPS)

[Mythsaje]

7. Believe me, I'm all for punishing animal abuse...

But the harm that was inflicted on this child, and the harm that child could end up inflicting on others because of it, is deserving of some SERIOUS jail time.

Poor kid.

[karlrschneider]

4. 13 years old? Why would he allow her to do that?

Makes no sense to me...
:eyes:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. She must be a fan of BF Skinner

An operant conditioning chamber (usually Skinner box) is a laboratory apparatus used in experimental psychology to study animal cognition. The Skinner box is named after its inventor, the behaviorist B.F. Skinner, who created the device while a graduate student at Harvard University around 1930. They are used to study both classical conditioning (especially autoshaping) and operant conditioning.

The structure forming the shell of a chamber is a 3-dimensional box large enough to easily accommodate the organism being used as a subject. (Common model organisms used include rodents–usually lab rats–pigeons, and primates).

Skinner boxes have at least one operandum (or "manipulandum") that can automatically detect the occurrence of a behavioral response or action. Typical operanda for primates and rats are response levers; if the subject presses the lever, the opposite end moves and closes a switch that is monitored by a computer or other programmed device. Typical operanda for pigeons and other birds are response keys with a switch that closes if the bird pecks at the key with sufficient force. The other minimal requirement of a conditioning chamber is that it have a means of delivering a primary reinforcer or unconditioned stimulus like food (usually pellets) or water.

With such a simple configuration, one operandum and one feeder, it is possible to investigate uncountable psychological phenomena. Modern Skinner boxes typically have many operanda, like many response levers, two or more feeders, and a variety of devices capable of generating many stimuli, including lights, sounds, music, figures, and drawings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner_box

note: Skinner's baby daughter spent her infancy in a Skinner box.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhskin.html