Children Locked In Basement for A Month As Punishment
On November - 9 - 2012
Two foster parents from Ankeny, IA, Paul and JoAnn Drake, were arrested for false imprisonment and neglect of an abandoned person, after they forced their 13-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son to live in the basement. One of the children eventually informed a school employee that they had been forced to live in the basement as a form of punishment. The employee then proceeded to alert the Department of Human Services. READ MORE HERE
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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