Lewis
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This pile of messed up stuff happened in good old Scranton, Pennsylvania. Home of "The Office" and where your's truly spent his formative years before escaping it's clutches for good. Reading about this kid's demise doesn't exactly surprise me; most of that town was a real mixed bag. The rest of this boy's life is going to be interesting, no doubt in my mind about that. Also, no doubt that his birth was a mistake. If it wasn't, locking him in a coffin with a diaper on, is a messed up way of saying "We love you, son. So glad you were born."
A diaper-wearing 7-year-old boy was found in the bug-ridden basement of a condemned Pennsylvania home, where he told police he was forced to sleep in a coffin. Cops are searching for the couple who live at the boy's address after he was found terrified and alone in the dark last week.
The boy claims he was locked in a coffin and duct-taped to a chair in the home, according to an affidavit filed Friday. He also explained to authorities he was "often" put in the basement as punishment and told ghosts lived there. The couple would also "pick up chains and drop them to scare him."
"Are you here to help me?" he said as officers entered the Scranton home on September 26, according to Times-Tribune newspaper. "I am hungry and I didn't get dinner yet," he reportedly told another officer who asked why he was crying.
Felony counts of endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful restraint were filed Friday against Lori Gardner, 26, and Brian Sleboda, 31, both of 823 Raines St., the same address where the child was discovered.
The boy claims he was locked in a coffin and duct-taped to a chair in the home, according to an affidavit filed Friday. He also explained to authorities he was "often" put in the basement as punishment and told ghosts lived there. The couple would also "pick up chains and drop them to scare him."
"Are you here to help me?" he said as officers entered the Scranton home on September 26, according to Times-Tribune newspaper. "I am hungry and I didn't get dinner yet," he reportedly told another officer who asked why he was crying.
Felony counts of endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful restraint were filed Friday against Lori Gardner, 26, and Brian Sleboda, 31, both of 823 Raines St., the same address where the child was discovered.
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