03-14-2012, 01:26 PM
i want to know. someone please tell me. how can anyone be so cruel to their child?? if i thought my child had no food, i couldn't eat!
the things we read in here make me sick, over and over again.
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A woman who locked her 14-year-old son in a squalid trailer and fed him just a few times a week has been jailed for three years.
Amanda Jolliff, 37, pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and child abuse after police found the boy living in a rodent-infested mobile home in Erie, Colorado.
Police said the boy's bedroom window was boarded up, and there was an outside lock on his bedroom door in which he had imprisoned for three and a half years.
Judge Thomas Quammen rejected a defense request for a non-prison sentence.
'Both the judge and the prosecutor said at the hearing that Jolliff will be treated more humanely in prison than her son was by her, with three square meals a day and a clean environment,' Meghan Swella, spokeswoman for the Weld County District Attorney's Office said.
Swella said the boy is now doing well in a foster home.
According to arrest warrant affidavits, the boy was discovered cowering under a neighbor's front porch last September.
The neighbor called police, who discovered that Jolliff went to New York two weeks earlier with her live-in boyfriend, leaving the boy on his own.
The boyfriend, Richard Smith, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child abuse and was sentenced earlier to 60 days in jail, in addition to the 167 days he served after his arrest.
When police searched the home, they found mice scampering throughout the trailer and "detected an overpowering odor of animal urine and feces," the affidavit said.
In and around the residence were two dogs, four toads, a macaw, two cockatiels, a cockatoo and two ducks, police said.
The boy told police his mother would lock him inside his bedroom, letting him out just to clean up after the ducks, and that he had not attended school for three years.
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The boy was discovered cowering under a neighbor's front porch, pictured, last September
the things we read in here make me sick, over and over again.
A woman who locked her 14-year-old son in a squalid trailer and fed him just a few times a week has been jailed for three years.
Amanda Jolliff, 37, pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and child abuse after police found the boy living in a rodent-infested mobile home in Erie, Colorado.
Police said the boy's bedroom window was boarded up, and there was an outside lock on his bedroom door in which he had imprisoned for three and a half years.
Judge Thomas Quammen rejected a defense request for a non-prison sentence.
'Both the judge and the prosecutor said at the hearing that Jolliff will be treated more humanely in prison than her son was by her, with three square meals a day and a clean environment,' Meghan Swella, spokeswoman for the Weld County District Attorney's Office said.
Swella said the boy is now doing well in a foster home.
According to arrest warrant affidavits, the boy was discovered cowering under a neighbor's front porch last September.
The neighbor called police, who discovered that Jolliff went to New York two weeks earlier with her live-in boyfriend, leaving the boy on his own.
The boyfriend, Richard Smith, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child abuse and was sentenced earlier to 60 days in jail, in addition to the 167 days he served after his arrest.
When police searched the home, they found mice scampering throughout the trailer and "detected an overpowering odor of animal urine and feces," the affidavit said.
In and around the residence were two dogs, four toads, a macaw, two cockatiels, a cockatoo and two ducks, police said.
The boy told police his mother would lock him inside his bedroom, letting him out just to clean up after the ducks, and that he had not attended school for three years.
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The boy was discovered cowering under a neighbor's front porch, pictured, last September