This is Rex Adkins. There was a story about him on CNN this morning. About twenty years ago, in a trailer park in Whitehall, Ohio, someone called the cops, when he was on duty, as a sort-of-new detective, to report a child in a family of five who was being beaten black and blue by his insane parents. Rex Adkins answered the call and paid the monsters a visit, but the monsters lied and said they only had two children, introduced the two children to the cops, and the cops left. But Adkins did not buy the story, at face value, and went back later, taking four other detectives with him. This time, the monsters did not answer the door, so the officers told them they'd hang out all night, outside the trailer, if need be, until they opened the door. They were finally invited back inside, and this time, conducted a search of the premises, and they found a third child, under the waterbed in the master bedroom (a waterbed in a trailer!) who was beaten so badly that he had several broken bones and a fractured skull! I wonder how Steve Houze or Jose Baez would have defended THAT case?!
James Stacy, at the time Whitehall's police chief, told me that the child had been beaten virtually since the time he was born. He was the one of the three children who was singled out for the brutality.
"He had never been sent to school," Stacy said. "His life consisted of being beaten in that trailer. His parents ridiculed him and made fun of the way he talked. ... He was made to stand in the corner for hours and sleep on the floor with the dog. When our officers asked the father why the boy had never been enrolled in school, the father said, 'He ain't been sent to school because he talks funny.' ".....From Bob Greene, CNN.
Ya know.........even twenty years ago, we had birth control for people who honestly didn't want any more children, or didn't want children in the first place. I don't care what the Church says about birth control; I don't care how many fantasies Governer Browncrack (R. Kansas) has that all pregnancies occur in the bellies of potentially loving mothers and that families are somehow "heaven sent". There are people among us who should never have children. Period. And too many police officers fear legal reprisal if they construe a report like the one the neighbors of the above mentioned monster-couple as "probable cause" and search the place, if they think a child with a skull fracture might be hidden somewhere on the premises. It's just legally easier and politically correct to whitewash everything and say you "checked", but that there turned out to be "nothing wrong". I am so relieved that Rex Adkins "listened to his gut" instead, since that truly was this little boy's only chance of ever being found under the bed and eventually growing up without broken bones.
Here's the whole article.
