NOSTALGIA VS. CHILD ABUSE

It's nice to be welcomed to ChicagoRay.com.
You have your hands full out in that Windy City but I still think Noo Yawk has greater challenges.
Here's my first post here:

NOSTALGIA THWARTED BY THE REALITY OF CHILD ABUSE

Just when Christmas nostalgia and good thoughts begin to envelop me, like Don Corleone, reality drags me back in: http://news.aol.com/article/couple-arrested-in-chained-teen-case/264755?icid=200100397×1214429195x1200873957.

Okay, I didn’t just fall off one of those cauliflower or turnip trucks which clog Long Island backroads this time of year but it’s still a shock to the nervous system to read such child abuse reports, even if that particular horror occurred out on the Left Coast.

Imagine yourself a kid, during that time of life when you had great if impractical dreams, when you envisioned yourself as a future center fielder in the new Yankee Stadium, or hawking overpriced popcorn in that Stadium, or even parking cars nearby.

Instead, this Tracy, California kid, who was 17 and looked 10 or 12, had apparently been shackled and held against his will for a year, was emaciated, nearly naked, filthy, and desparate after he finally escaped and begged people to hide him from his abusers.

Not much else has been reported on the story except that those captors, Michael Schumacher, 34, and Kelly Layne Lau, 30, a girl scout leader, had been arrested. His aunt was subsequently taken into custody by the police. Only the victim’s given name, Kyle, has been released.

This brief item, http://www.knx1070.com/Third-Person-Arrested-in-NorCal-Torture-Case/3425378, features a picture which I have to assume is of the aunt. She, Caren Ramirez,...

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)