IN - 3 Boys (ages 5, 6 & 7), siblings, bound, beaten, & burned from bleach, Ft. Wayne, 4 June 2022

[imstilla.grandma]

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – He had not eaten for two weeks, the 7-year-old boy told investigators.

So one night, at about 2 a.m., he slipped out of the zip-ties that always bound his wrists at bedtime, snuck down to the kitchen and got some peanut butter. He didn’t want to “starve to death,” he would later say.

That’s when the woman caught him.

The boy spent the rest of the night zip-tied to his brother’s wooden crib, he told police. He spent part of the next day with his arms and legs duct-taped to a chair, a wash rag taped over his mouth so the neighbors wouldn’t hear him scream.

Later, the boy had his head slammed into a floor due to the peanut butter theft, his brothers told police.

That’s just a snippet of what three siblings had to endure in the home of 49-year-old Rita J. Dishong, who is accused in newly released Allen Superior Court documents of regularly beating two of the boys, withholding food to the point of malnourishment and burning the eldest boy’s skin with bleach.

Children bound, beat and burned from bleach, court docs say

A woman is accused of beating three boys she took care of for several months.

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Court docs: Abuse boys suffered included bindings, beatings and burning from bleach

A woman is accused of beating three boys she took care of for several months.

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[borndem]

It just never stops, does it? And, IMO, it never will. They do it because they can, and because of 100 other "reasons."
At least they are still alive, away from her, and I assume they will get care, food, and a safe place to sleep. That's a start.
Another horrible situation. Prayers that those children will be able to rise above this one day and be happy and healthy.

 

[borndem]

Ouch!! You're right about no money for those boys who suffered so much. SMH.

But I'll say again -- they're alive and have each other, and should be getting good meals on a regular basis. Most or all, I hope, of their physical wounds will heal, and let's hope, with professional help and time, that they can be "regular boys" who laugh, play, learn in school, and look forward to the next day.

This was a close one, but now, as they say, healing can begin.

 

[wendybtn]

Who in the blue blazes is this woman to them and where are the parents or grandparents?!