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| 2008-01-30 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. -- A Washington County woman is accused of locking her 10-year-old grandson in a feces-filled dog crate for about 90 minutes. It was for his good! He might have wanted a snack while he was in the cage . . . . Police said 51-year-old Rhonda Lehman, of Washington, put the boy in the crate Saturday because the boy laced the family's drinks with lamp oil and household cleaner called "Bam." Next time, try Drano. Lehman has custody of the boy, who told police he did it because "he was angry because he didn't get to go on a trip" last year, said Washington police Officer James Markley. It is possible the boy had been spiking the drinks for a while, authorities said. Family members became sick, but were not hospitalized. I'm sure he can be rehabilitated. Then he can babysit your children. Police said Lehman also told a county agency if someone didn't come for the boy, she would bury him alive in the back yard. Lehman was charged with child endangerment and making terroristic threats. Next time, just threaten to bury him up to his neck, OK? On Saturday, the boy was put in a 3-foot-by-4-foot plastic dog cage with only a small metal door for him to look out, Markley said. What, no rottweiler to keep him company? The boy's 24-year-old brother, Michael McCreery, is charged with punching the youngster. Charged for not hitting him hard enough? "When I asked the brother, I said, 'Why would you punch a 10-year-old in the eye?' he said, 'It's better than what I wanted to do to him,"' Markley said. Couldn't find any Drano? Markley said the defendants told authorities they don't believe they did anything wrong. Grandma started it all with her stupid idea to go on a trip! "They were very calm, like this was nothing," Markley said. Now this is the mark of true insanity! The 10-year-old is now in the county's Children and Youth Services, which is treating him for mental health issues, authorities said. Good luck with that. Lehman and McCreery remain at the Washington County Jail on $25,000 bail. Preliminary hearings are scheduled for Feb. 5. Two options here: 1) Reset bail to something that they can barely afford even if all their loser friends and surviving family chip in. They will get out and will remove themselves from the gene pool. County can keep the bail money after they die. Negatives: It may take several months, might reproduce, might harm others, might be resisant to Drano by now. 2) Lock them up forever. Negatives: Expensive, might escape. Loser friends and family have money. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #6 Geez, ya wonder where the little whippersnapper gets it from... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-01-30 16:21 |
| #5 I accidently drank lamp oil once. It wasn't fun. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-01-30 13:11 |
| #4 M. Murcek - guess who's the Congress critter for Washington County, PA? None other than John Murtha! Guess that proves your point. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2008-01-30 12:12 |
| #3 and household cleaner called "Bam." I swear I saw that on an episode of Emeril Live. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-01-30 11:14 |
| #2 That's a nice, well adjusted and functional family, in fact it even reminds me much of my own, that's almost heartwarming. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-01-30 09:38 |
| #1 These are the sort of typical Pennsylvania voters who make this a blue state. I can't wait to leave for Arizona... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-01-30 08:36 |