Beaten, Starved Children Rescued From Dog Cage

WARNING:  This video is horrifying and heartbreaking.

  Six children were found with several dogs in a hotel room in Las Vegas.  The father believed he had beaten an 11-year-old boy to death.  He then locked him in a dog cage with another child and left them there!

It's not clear how the parents came to be in police custody.  But when the police arrived at the hotel to check on the children, they were afraid to open the door.  Their father had told them never to open it for strangers.  They tried to convince the police they were fine, even though their father thought one of the children had died from the beating.  The female police officer, with her calm, soothing, voice, wasn't able to convince them.  Eventually a maintenance man did.

Fortunately the children survived.  But no child should ever have to endure this.  There is absolutely no excuse.

Unfortunately I'm afraid for the future of these children.  I'm reminded of the Turpin children, who escaped their house of brutality and starvation.  They were sent into foster care where they endured more of the same.

I don't know what became of the children of Gloria Williams from Texas, who allowed her boyfriend to beat her special-needs child, Kendrick Lee, to death.  She then left all of the children to starve in an apartment with no electricity while Kendrick's corpse decomposed.  Those children went to foster care.  Me of little faith, I hate not knowing their outcome.

God bless little Kendrick Lee, America's sweetheart.  I hope these children get to a better place, and soon.  I wish I could bring them all home with me.