Up My Own Ass

You probably heard about the poor teenager that escaped to a local gym in California, emaciated and shackled at the ankle.

The AP reported that “The teen told investigators he had been seriously burned on his left arm when someone purposely lit a fire in the fireplace while he was chained there and sleeping. Authorities who later searched the home where the boy allegedly was held reported finding a blanket inside the fireplace.”

According to the affidavit, the three defendants had held the boy captive since mid-2007, beating him frequently, denying him food for days at a time and keeping him chained to the fireplace or a heavy table. The boy also recounted being choked with a belt until he lost consciousness.

“Though currently 16 years old, he appeared much younger due to malnourishment, and his body was predominantly covered with soot, sores and scars,” said the detective on the case, Nate Cogburn.

The boy said he was regularly hit on the head with a baseball bat and was once cut with a knife, according to the detective. Cogburn said the boy had an injured ankle that seemed permanently indented from being chained.

The boy explained that the defendants also forced him to take unknown pills, drink alcoholic beverages and smoke marijuana to keep him lethargic, the detective said.

So the poor kid showed up last month when he broke away finally and sought help at a local gym dressed in boxers, with a bruised body, and a bloody shackled ankle.

But if the case itself is not frightening enough, the scholar they have as the local police SPOKESMAN certainly is. This is what he had to say:

“The victim said he was held against his will,” the police department spokesman Robinson told reporters Tuesday. “When you have a 17-year-old boy showing up with a bloody ankle from having a chain wrapped around it — it was one of those things where officers put one and one together.”

Well yes they sure dang do don’t they. I’m so RELIEVED that officers were able to…”put one and one together” and…what…figure out that there was something wrong when a half-naked bruised and battered kid shows up in bloody shackles?

And just think. Robinson’s whole JOB is to speak to the public on behalf of the police!