I normally don't want to kill people, but this is different

[wiegie]

Boys found starving; adoptive parents charged

Saturday, July 15, 2006; Posted: 10:08 p.m. EDT (02:08 GMT)

 

LYMAN, South Carolina (AP) -- A couple has been jailed on felony charges after police discovered their three adopted sons were severely malnourished, including a 5-year-old boy who weighed less than 20 pounds.

 

An 8-year-old brother weighed less than 40 pounds and a 7-year-old brother weighed about 32 pounds when police found them Thursday. The boys also were treated for bruises, scratches, burns and head lice.

 

Two of the boys told officers they were tied up to be kept from food in the mobile home.

 

Dennis McCurry, 30, and Molly McCurry, 29, were each charged with three counts of intentional infliction of great bodily injury upon a child. If convicted of the felony, each faces a minimum 20-year sentence.

 

A fourth child, Molly McCurry's 10-year-old biological daughter, was found to have head lice but was not malnourished, police said.

 

"It appeared that mom, dad and daughter ate one way, and the boys ate another way," Spartanburg County sheriff's Sgt. Kevin Bobo said.

 

According to the incident report, the couple told officers their family "had been dealing with a stomach virus that had caused the weight loss." During his bail hearing, Dennis McCurry told Magistrate Judge John Poole that he had lost 10 pounds.

 

The couple was denied bail and the children are in protective custody.

 

The boys are Molly McCurry's biological nephews, but she and her husband adopted them. The boys had lived with the McCurrys since 2003.

[max]

That is terrible. That makes me sick.

[nuke'em ttg]

f'n people.... ...why do they do that

[Ursa Majoris]

I'd like to know how scum like this managed to adopt these three boys when several people I know personally have had to jump through a million hoops, have exhaustive background checks and every nook and cranny of their home inspected multiple times before being allowed to adopt.

 

Something rotten in South Carolina.

[Puddy]

I wonder if the story has it right with the term 'adoptive'. That is an expensive endeavor while becoming foster parents actually gets families income from the government. Sounds more like a foster parent issue. Receiving the monthly cash to care for the kids but using zero dollars on their care.

 

In any case, I also want the parents dead. Preferrably by starvation (coupled with a punch to each of their respective faces every hour on the hour).

[Ursa Majoris]

I wonder if the story has it right with the term 'adoptive'. That is an expensive endeavor while becoming foster parents actually gets families income from the government. Sounds more like a foster parent issue. Receiving the monthly cash to care for the kids but using zero dollars on their care.

 

In any case, I also want the parents dead. Preferrably by starvation (coupled with a punch to each of their respective faces every hour on the hour).

 

Article says there's some relation, so I guess it could be short-route adoption.

[Puddy]

Article says there's some relation, so I guess it could be short-route adoption.

 

 

Wow. Just saw that at the end of the story. Can you imagine how they would treat them if they weren't kin?

[broncosn05]

f'n people.... ...why do they do that

 

F'n POSs!

[wildcat2334]

Disgusting on every level.... do we know for a fact that South Carolina has running water and utlitities?

 

I am so glad the Union won the Civil War..........

Edited July 16, 2006 by wildcat2334

[cre8tiff]

This kinda sh!t happens everywhere.

 

Try becoming a foster parent. You hear stories like this and worse all the time.

 

Article says there's some relation, so I guess it could be short-route adoption.

 

This is true, it is far easier for relations to adopt than non-relatives, and relations require less training.