Child Abuse

  In early September, Ronika Bell brought her four kids down to their father's house in Florida, after being evicted from her home in North Carolina. Joshua Bell,the father, called the police saying the children looked very malnourished, very skinny and dirty. "Ear wax just pouring out of their ears," he said, "Dead skin. It just didn't look right." After being taken to the hospital for treatment, the police interviewed the three oldest kids. The children told police that they were locked in a bedroom and were rarely fed. They also said that were whooped with a belt when they asked for food, and made to do situps or pushups for long periods of time. When they did eat, they described to police their one meal they would get was cereal with water. "From what I heard, the house was stocked with food," Joshua Bell said. "I don't understand why they couldn't just have some normal meal." Each of the kids said that they were beaten with belts, sticks, wires, hangers, or fists when they tried to steal food.
  
  Now what is this, what kind of a cruel, heartless, disgusting human would do such a thing to their own offspring...made children do situps for food. That's just wicked. The Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) really needs to step up their game and crack down on the families who really need them. 
  When I was eight years old, I lived down the street of a family with four children. The parents would do drugs in the house and starve the children, but DFCS was never there. The cops were called on them a couple of times but they never did anything about it, not until one of the children drowned in the bathtub and died. True story.
  When I was ten years old, I had a friend named Joyiea, who was the same age as me and also lived up the street from me. Her mother was a straight up crackhead, she would wander around the neighborhood yelling crazy things while my mother and I hid Joyiea from her in my bedroom. We called DFCS, and all the mother had to say was, " I dont care! Take her! I'll pack her bags for her!" Sure enough, Joyiea was gone.
  These parents need to get their act together, abusing a child is a disgusting thing to do. No kid should ever have to put up with starving, or being beat. They should get the most out of their childhood as they can. And with their uncaring parents in the way, it's hard for them to do so. 
  This year, 77 children have died due to child abuse in Georgia. That just tells you something about how hard DFCS isn't trying.