Three years in a jail cell with nothing but ketchup?
[:@]Even that might be too good for this woman......
--------------------------------- Home Alone Nearly Three Weeks, Tot Survives
Wed October 1, 2003 09:13 AM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - A 2-year-old girl whose mother was in jail survived alone in an apartment for nearly three weeks on ketchup, mustard and food she found in the refrigerator and kitchen cupboards, Jacksonville, Florida police said on Tuesday.
The child' s father found the toddler on Monday, draped in a towel and sitting in an infant' s bathtub in her mother' s apartment, police said.
Police have charged the mother, Dakeysha Telita Lee, 20, with child abuse for not telling them she had left the girl alone at home when she was arrested on Sept. 10 on an aggravated battery charge.
The child, whose name was not released, was recovering from malnutrition and Florida' s Department of Children and Families, the state child welfare agency, was investigating the case to determine where to place the girl.
" She had subsisted on mustard, ketchup, dried pasta. She cleared out the lower cabinets looking for food as well as the refrigerator," Jacksonville Sheriff' s Office spokesman Ken Jefferson said.
" Everything was on the bed in the bedroom. Obviously she had found other things than the ketchup to eat."
The child' s father, Ogden Lee, told the Florida Times-Union newspaper he had been trying to contact Dakeysha Lee, from whom he is separated, for two weeks, not knowing she was in jail.
He finally tried the jail on Sunday and talked to his estranged wife, who told him the girl was with neighbors. After knocking on doors at her apartment complex without success, he had a manager let him into the mother' s apartment on Monday and found the girl, dirty and covered with dried ketchup.
" She grabbed me and wouldn' t let go of me," he told the newspaper. " It really is a miracle how good a shape my daughter is in. I don' t know how she did it."
Police said there was no evidence anyone had visited the apartment during the time the child was alone.
" The child is safe and in our care," said Pattie Mallon, an official with the Department of Children and Families in Jacksonville. " We are in awe of her spirit to survive and we are making every effort to ensure her safety and well being."
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RE: Three years in a cell with nothing but ketchup?
There is a woman who should be dragged by her greasy hair to the back of the jail and beaten with a night stick till she is near death, revive her, then repeat every day
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RE: Three years in a cell with nothing but ketchup?
I heard that on the news this morning, I cant even think of a form of punishment suitable for a piece of S#!T like her.[:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@]
It breaks my heart to think of what the poor little girl went through. I bet a million dollars to a hole in a donute this wasnt the first time this little girl was left alone.[:' (]
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RE: Three years in a jail cell with nothing but ketchup?
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[1]What was the women put in jail for?
[2]Why didn' t the father get her?
The woman was originally jailed for aggravated assault and petty theft.
I think it' s probably pretty standard practice after something like this for the authorities to check things out first and make sure that the child is placed in a safe environment. If the dad was okay, he probably had his daughter fairly quickly.
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RE: Three years in a jail cell with nothing but ketchup?
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I cant even think of a form of punishment suitable for a piece of S#!T like her.
I think that she should be left put into solitary confinement with nothing but a bottle of ketchup, and left to starve and die like her daughter almost did. I understand that starvation is one of the more horrible ways to die...and it serves her right.
RE: Three years in a jail cell with nothing but ketchup?
I know the jist of the story but cant bring myself to read it. I definatly can think of a good punishment for her but would show a side of me that no one should see. Let me just say that Steven King would be jellous.
Three years in a jail cell with nothing but ketchup?
