Cops: Teen kept in bathroom, beaten for years

[Liberal_in_LA]

Cops: Teen kept in bathroom, beaten for years
Boy has broken forearm and oozing wounds that may mark years of abuse

updated 6:11 a.m. PT, Tues., Feb. 17, 2009
SPRING HILL, Florida - For three years, neighbors in a quaint, middle-class community scarcely saw the lanky 16-year-old boy who lived with his adoptive mother and her boyfriend.

Now, they know why: According to authorities, the teen was brutally abused and held captive in his own home. Most recently, he'd been confined to a bathroom, locked from the outside and sealed with a piece of plywood over the window.

By the time he escaped last week, the Florida boy had a broken forearm and scars, scabs and oozing wounds that investigators say mark years of abuse.

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Last week, the abuse reached a new height, police said. According to an arrest affidavit, Gigliotti and Angelo discovered the boy had found a way to pry open a barricaded window and free himself with a piece of his clarinet.

The teen was forced to strip, and Gigliotti beat him with a piece of wood about three feet long, police said.

The authorities' account continues as follows: When the teen couldn't stand the pain, he grabbed the wood and held it. Gigliotti beckoned her boyfriend, who came in and took the wood away. She then beat him with the metal and plastic ends of a water hose.

After that, his hands were bound with packing tape. He was left nude and with cuts all around his body. The bathroom's electricity was cut, leaving him in darkness.

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29234389/

[TwilightGardener]

1. Sheer craziness. Poor kid. Why does the worst shit always seem to happen in Florida?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

15. I lived there. I know.

The heat and humidity drives people mad. No shit. Fact is that Florida, outside of the resorts and biggest cities and South Beach, is a very hostile environment. Walk into the woods there and see what I mean. Humans were really never meant to live there. Also, goto Google Videos and watch "Cocaine Cowboys". It is a video that lays out a time that changed Florida forever.

[TwilightGardener]

17. Yes, I lived there for a time as well--the only nature I was able to enjoy

was the beach--the "woods" were all overgrown brush with massive wasps and spiders (no hikes for me), even the yard wasn't safe: had to do the fire-ant shuffle, couldn't wear sandals. Would never want to live there again. Warm weather isn't everything.

[MineralMan]

2. Aw....geez! Poor kid. May the adults receive an adequate

punishment.

[flvegan]

3. This has been big news around here.

When the media talked to the neighbors, they said that they saw him outside time to time tending to the yard, but the mother was never more than a couple feet away. They described her as "creepy" and "way overprotective".

[WillParkinson]

7. That's overprotective?

Let me run into the street, please. I'd rather take my chances.

(Not you, obviously, I refer to the sick and twisted woman.)

[AyanEva]

4. D: WTF

Is there a link to the story? Why bother adopting when you're going to use the kid as a punching bag? I don't understand it. :(

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29234389/

[AyanEva]

19. Thanks

:( I almost wish I hadn't read it. It's amazing that these kids still find the strength to break out and escape through sheer determination. I might just give up and huddle in the corner.

It's like his aunt resented him or something.

[TheWraith]

20. Some people are simply sadists.

And in certain cases sick, sadistic people manage to find other sick, sadistic people, as appears to be the case with this woman and her boyfriend.

[YOY]

5. Sweet Jesus why???

What could the kid have done to deserve that???

Poor kid is gonna need years of therapy...even then...

[I Have A Dream]

6. ...

:cry:

:(

[HowHasItComeToThis]

8. PERHAPS FLORIDA WILL FALL OFF

IT IS ALWAYS FLORIDA:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[BlooInBloo]

9. I'm reminded of Natural Born Killers: "you knew all about it, and you never did NUTHIN".

[DS1]

10. no mercy for these two

into the lion cage. Time to save the Zoo some money

[TahitiNut]

11. So much for her "maternal instincts"!

:puke:

[RedCappedBandit]

12. Hope he gets the help he needs.

[Blue_Tires]

13. wow...i thought you had to undergo a LOT of character/background checks

before adopting...isn't that why so many potential parents complain about the process being too long?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

16. What realllllllyyyyyy stinks is ANIMALS like this can adopt, but Homosexuals can't

:mad:

[Initech]

18. Holy crap! Some people just really suck.

[Marrah_G]

21. I can't even wrap my brain around these horrible stories.

[lightningandsnow]

22. That's terrible.

:cry: