GUILTY GA - Paul & Sheila Comer for starving, abusing teen son, Paulding County, 2012
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Mitch's bio dad posted the following message on the FB event page. The poor guy was completely in thebdark about the abuse his son was receiving!
The event is scheduled for 11/10 and is to raise funds to send Mitch to HS and help him with living expenses, basically to help give him the life that his peers were able to live.
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I plan on attending or at least contributing in some way. His story really touched me and it's rare that I can make a difference locally. Does any one else plan on going?
Mitch's bio dad posted the following message on the FB event page. The poor guy was completely in thebdark about the abuse his son was receiving!
The event is scheduled for 11/10 and is to raise funds to send Mitch to HS and help him with living expenses, basically to help give him the life that his peers were able to live.
Event Page
I plan on attending or at least contributing in some way. His story really touched me and it's rare that I can make a difference locally. Does any one else plan on going?
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On 11/10 there was a fundraiser hosted for Mitch. Coverage of it is at the link. It's nice to see something positive come out of this, there are good people out there. I feel sorry for the other 2 girls that lived in his household. Even though yhey weren't locked up I imagine they weren't treated as they shouls be.
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Georgia parents plead guilty to locking up and starving their son for years before buying him a one-way ticket to California and throwing away all traces of his childhood
A couple from Georgia have been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to locking up and starving their teenage son for years before buying him a one-way bus ticket to California.
Paul and Sheila Comer held Sheila's son, Mitch Comer, captive for at least three years at their Paulding County home until he was found by police weighing just 87 pounds last September.
On his 18th birthday, they had bought him a one-way bus ticket for California, gave him pamphlets for homeless shelters and threw away all reminders of him, from his school work to baby shoes..........
On Thursday, the couple were silent as they shuffled into the Paulding County courtroom, where they were sentenced to 30 years, half of which they will serve on probation.
They pleaded guilty, meaning they avoided possible sentences of more than 100 years behind bars. It also meant there was no trial, at which their children would have had to testify.
As a condition of the deal, the Comers must also forfeit all of their assets, which will go into a trust fund for their three children, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
Half of the money will go to Mitch, who has been placed with a foster family in the area, and the remaining to the couple's two younger daughters, who are also in foster care..............
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...locking-starving-son-years.html#ixzz2MLhODKQx
A couple from Georgia have been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to locking up and starving their teenage son for years before buying him a one-way bus ticket to California.
Paul and Sheila Comer held Sheila's son, Mitch Comer, captive for at least three years at their Paulding County home until he was found by police weighing just 87 pounds last September.
On his 18th birthday, they had bought him a one-way bus ticket for California, gave him pamphlets for homeless shelters and threw away all reminders of him, from his school work to baby shoes..........
On Thursday, the couple were silent as they shuffled into the Paulding County courtroom, where they were sentenced to 30 years, half of which they will serve on probation.
They pleaded guilty, meaning they avoided possible sentences of more than 100 years behind bars. It also meant there was no trial, at which their children would have had to testify.
As a condition of the deal, the Comers must also forfeit all of their assets, which will go into a trust fund for their three children, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
Half of the money will go to Mitch, who has been placed with a foster family in the area, and the remaining to the couple's two younger daughters, who are also in foster care..............
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...locking-starving-son-years.html#ixzz2MLhODKQx
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I am surprised. Their sentence is actually reasonable. That's about 4 years for each of the 3 years they imprisoned him in his room. It could have been 30 years probation.
Also he gets half the assets and his sisters get 25% each.
Of course, none of this comes close to making up for not being able to live for 3 of the more important years of a teens life. But it is better than nothing.
Also he gets half the assets and his sisters get 25% each.
Of course, none of this comes close to making up for not being able to live for 3 of the more important years of a teens life. But it is better than nothing.
I am a pretty tough cookie when it comes to reading cases- I read too many to allow myself to get too emotional over every single one. I'd be a wreck, heh.
Mitch's story had me crying my eyes out though. And not just for Mitch.. there's so many kids suffering this type of neglect, it's just incredible. Why parents would neglect a child, let alone so thoroughly neglect one child over several others in the house just defies my grasp on human nature, it really does (though clearly Mitch's sisters were neglected badly, also, at least they got see daylight
).
Agh, the throwing away his memories thing just really tore me up. I think his parents deserve everything they got, and more. Child abusers ought to be sterilised before release so they can't make more kids to damage and murder slowly.
And I hope Mitch and his sisters go on to have wonderful, happy lives and get all the support they need to leave the pain of the past behind them.
eta: Jan, if you're still reading this thread, please accept a warm e-hug and well wishes, I am sorry you had to live like that.
Mitch's story had me crying my eyes out though. And not just for Mitch.. there's so many kids suffering this type of neglect, it's just incredible. Why parents would neglect a child, let alone so thoroughly neglect one child over several others in the house just defies my grasp on human nature, it really does (though clearly Mitch's sisters were neglected badly, also, at least they got see daylight
). Agh, the throwing away his memories thing just really tore me up. I think his parents deserve everything they got, and more. Child abusers ought to be sterilised before release so they can't make more kids to damage and murder slowly.
And I hope Mitch and his sisters go on to have wonderful, happy lives and get all the support they need to leave the pain of the past behind them.
eta: Jan, if you're still reading this thread, please accept a warm e-hug and well wishes, I am sorry you had to live like that.
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cases like this make my blood boil. There is no excuse for a mother or extended family to sit back and allow their kids to be abused. I have never understood that and never will. I would have died trying to protect my babies. yet these people let it happen. The grandomothers, they have no excuse- not one if they never tried to report the abuse.
I love my sister dearly. But she went from abusive man to the next and allowed her kids to be abused. The last one must have been a wake up call because she has avoided men ever since. She was married to a who was abusing the kids. I called DHR in the county they lived in-anonymously. Something must have happened because she threw him out, moved away and finally became the mother she should have been all their lives. She never knew it was me. I could not live with myself knowing what those kids were going through and not do something. But it was too late- those kids are now messes as adults and I see their kids following the same paths. But at least I know I did what I could. and I can't comprehend those grandmothers not at least making a phone call.
I love my sister dearly. But she went from abusive man to the next and allowed her kids to be abused. The last one must have been a wake up call because she has avoided men ever since. She was married to a who was abusing the kids. I called DHR in the county they lived in-anonymously. Something must have happened because she threw him out, moved away and finally became the mother she should have been all their lives. She never knew it was me. I could not live with myself knowing what those kids were going through and not do something. But it was too late- those kids are now messes as adults and I see their kids following the same paths. But at least I know I did what I could. and I can't comprehend those grandmothers not at least making a phone call.