3 arrested for confining disabled people to basement, stealing social security checks

[alp227]

Sounds like what Paul Ryan, Alan Simpson, the Republican Party, and Wall Street want to do with Social Security and Medicare? CNN reports: "Janitor finds mentally disabled people locked in basement; 3 arrested":

...on a return trip to the basement Saturday, Turgut Gozleveli found something much more sinister: four mentally disabled people held captive, including one man chained to a radiator.

"It was terrible," he said Sunday, adding the people were surrounded by human waste. "I don't know how long they were there."

Three people have been arrested and accused of holding the people captive and stealing their Social Security checks.

Linda Ann Weston, 51; Thomas Gregory, 47; and Eddie Wright, 49, face charges including criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint, and false imprisonment, Philadelphia police said in a statement Sunday.

The alleged victims include a 29-year-old woman and three men, ages 31, 35 and 41, said Philadelphia police Lt. Ray Evers.

Weston, the alleged ringleader, was convicted more than 10 years ago on a murder charge in Philadelphia, Evers said. She served eight years in prison.

All seven -- the three suspects and four alleged victims -- had been traveling together, he said, but did not know for how long. Weston is believed to have been in McLean, Texas, with some or all of the alleged victims. They then traveled to Florida and Philadelphia, Evers said.

[toddwv]

1. Republicans will use this as another reason why SS should be dismantled...

[emilyg]

2. Those nasty people belong

in jail forever.