Topic : *Dr. Phil Prime Time Special: Caged

Here in Reno area, we had something similar to the young boy being caged by his father.  Two young children, a boy and an older girl, were kept locked in a bathroom in the home of their grandmother, mother, and stepfather, for ten years.  They slept on the floor, had very little to eat and were never allowed to leave the small bathroom.  One day the girl managed to overtake her grandmother and get out, with her brother.  The girl was found wandering in the streets and the two were rescued.  The adults were convicted and sentenced to prison terms.  Justice was served.  The two children were put into foster care and are now doing very well.  It just amazes me that parents can do this to their own flesh and blood.   However, my own mother hated her children but that was due to the fact that my dad cheated on her and eventually left her with us to raise, on her own.  But as cruel as she was, she never locked us up or starved us. 

 I just don't understand how a parent can look at their child like a piece of trash. How they can have no regaurd for they say to them and in front of them. They can hit them like they'd hit someone in a bar fight. I'm a new mother, i have a 5 week old daughter and i hate leaving her in the morning to go to school. She's my world, my liffe, and I could never treat her like anything else. I'm anxious to see how this episode turns out. I hope the father is in the right, but that will be determined when we get there. If he's not then he deserves whatever he gets and more.

 signed,

  proud new mommy

I hope you will be addressing the issue of a persons need for total and complete power over another's life in this upcoming show. We need to be able to combat this and stop abuse of the vulnerable.

 This is a sickness that needs to be stopped at all cost! Am I right in thinking that the need for power and control of the victim is the main ingredient for most abusers?

 This poor child will not know how to live and react in normal situations now. He is likely to be scarred so badly that a lifetime of therapy and adjustment will more than likely be needed.

I live in the area that Coralrose Eve Fullwood was kidnapped, molested and killed by a person that must have this same tendency within him.

Some very concerned people have been trying to help the mother of Coralrose, Ellen Beth Fullwood, in her quest to find justice for her daughter. I am so sickened by the way a few members of the community are treating her. The attacks on her and her family are so evil in nature. I can not understand why they insist on kicking her and the other family members while they are down. Recently, I have been noticing that they must have the same need for power and control that an abuser and the offender that did this to Coralrose must need.

 These links are to the Mothers website and forums that she has started to try to help get these perverts found and in jail where they belong. She was active on a local newspapers’ forum but was attacked repeatedly and finally found a way to have her own discussion boards in order to be constructive and possibly be helpful somehow.

http://home.comcast.net/~coralrosemom/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html

 http://www.freepowerboards.com/coralrose/index.php

 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/roseysangels/

As a parents of three children and as a human I can not understand how things like this happen. Our social services (in canada) are a joke. Parents who have a hard time and one incidence loose their children and people who should lose their chidlren get to keep them... All i can say it atleast he's behind bars and hopefully the child the gets the help he needs. i have heard so many stories of parents locking their children away from the world and getting a slap on the wrist, don't forget the foster parents who looked after children with developmental and physical disabilies...Did those "foster parents" really get what they deserved, did those children see "justice" served? It makes me sick to my stomach how people who are supose to protect our most velnerable and the ones who end up hurting them...