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I don't know if anyone read the full Chicago Trib article I posted above. (Chicago Trib usually goes pay to view usually within a week or two-so not sure how long the link will be valid)
His sister trying to revive him with a mattress pump the following day - that did it for me.
God Bless this poor child. If he had lived would he ever have been saveable? My heart just aches for all of these children who will grow into damaged adults.... where do the ripples start? do they ever end? These two adults and any others that knew of the treatment of this child should all hang. I am guessing there were a few others.....
And now we come to the reason why she didn't tell her mother right away. She was probably trying to deal with the fact that she was forced to watch/participate in the abuse. And she was made responsible for "caring" for him, so she probably felt some guilt in that he died. I surprised it didn't take longer for her to talk.
In the father's early statement to police, he pointed a finger at the sister. Normally, I would've been outraged that he was trying to put the blame on his daughter. For some reason, his words rang true, and reading this additional information makes them even more believable. Don't get me wrong. I hold him and the stepmother responsible for Christian's fate. Don't have any warm, fuzzies for his biological mother, either. Christina, though, seems to share her father's sadistic nature. I pray she's not allowed to be alone with younger children.Christian's sister, can remember the hatred that was aimed at her brother from all the other family members living in the trailer. "Everyone hated him," she said.
She said she would beat him if he got mouthy with her or if she was instructed to do so by her father or stepmother.
"I love my brother, don't get me wrong," she said. "But he had problems."
he also recalled several of the other children in the home hitting her brother as well, she said Tuesday.
"They never liked him," she said of the other kids. "He was always an outsider."
He refused to eat so she slapped him across the face twice and put him back into the cage, eventually noticing he was not breathing, she said.
After a period when Kimberly tried to restore the boy to health, Christina again took control and would bathe him twice a week in ice cold water, prompting screams from Christian, the first witness said.
I realize the sister, Christina, can be viewed as a victim herself, but I find some of her statements very disturbing. She shows a total lack of empathy.
In the father's early statement to police, he pointed a finger at the sister. Normally, I would've been outraged that he was trying to put the blame on his daughter. For some reason, his words rang true, and reading this additional information makes them even more believable. Don't get me wrong. I hold him and the stepmother responsible for Christian's fate. Don't have any warm, fuzzies for his biological mother, either. Christina, though, seems to share her father's sadistic nature. I pray she's not allowed to be alone with younger children.
Rest in Peace, Christian. I am so sorry you were made to suffer so horribly by your own family.
I realize the sister, Christina, can be viewed as a victim herself, but I find some of her statements very disturbing. She shows a total lack of empathy.
In the father's early statement to police, he pointed a finger at the sister. Normally, I would've been outraged that he was trying to put the blame on his daughter. For some reason, his words rang true, and reading this additional information makes them even more believable. Don't get me wrong. I hold him and the stepmother responsible for Christian's fate. Don't have any warm, fuzzies for his biological mother, either. Christina, though, seems to share her father's sadistic nature. I pray she's not allowed to be alone with younger children.
Rest in Peace, Christian. I am so sorry you were made to suffer so horribly by your own family.
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I understand what you're saying, Mysteriew. The sister might well have feared for her own safety. But Christian died two years ago, and the father has not been a threat to her for quite some time. Yet still, she shows no compassion, no remorse, not a hint of survivor's guilt. It takes a cold hearted person to make statements like the ones this young woman has made about her murdered brother. He had problems? Damn straight he had problems. He was locked in a cage, starved, beaten, and tortured. Mouthy? Are you kidding me? And what about the alleged cold water baths? If that's true, then why? I doubt anyone was standing over her shoulder watching. Why not make the water at least tolerable? I can't imagine how excruciatingly painful a cold bath was for Christian with his body already suffering from injuries and sickness.When the abuse in the is particularly severe, sometimes instead of standing together the kids will more or less throw each other "under the bus". They will imitate the same behavior they have seen from their parent by being violent themselves. They will tell on each other, because when the parent is busy beating one child they are leaving the others alone. And in this case allegedly the sister was "put in charge" of Christian, and allegedly was told that if he didn't behave she would get the same thing he got. So if this is true I am kinda on the fence about her. She may have thought she was doing it for her own survival, or she may have done it because of learned behavior. The only tie breaker for me is that when she got out of sperm donor's control she did tell. And she is the only one who told.
Mom, again I don't have as much of a problem with. Yes she says she was abused. But was it chronic abuse or a long time abuse. And what was sperm donor's relationship with the children like before she left? He could have been a 'relatively good dad' before she left. Then he hooked up with girlfriends, with kids of their own. Too many variables we don't know. And as far as the 6 years, I can kinda understand that. Sperm donor lived with girlfriends, how often did he move around and do you really think he was going to call her and leave his new addresses? Did either one of them have phones? She was living out of state, it wasn't like she could pop over every couple of days and look for them.
Sperm donor and the female he was with? Well I have my own thoughts about what should be done with them. The adult stepaunt? Hope she joins them.