10-Year-Old Dies Of Dehydration After His Parents Deny Him 5-Days Of Water

Written by Michael Lambarde on Aug 28, 2011 // Category: National

Police say that a Texas boy died of dehydration after his parents denied him of drinking water as punishment after he had accidentally wet the bed. The 10-year-old Dallas boy, Jonathan James, died on July 25, according to police, after his parents prohibited him from drinking water in the five days leading up to his death. Temperatures in Dallas soared to 100 degrees or more on each of those days, police say.

Michael Ray James, his father, and Tina Alberson, his stepmother, were both charged on Thursday, August 25th and were jailed for injury to a child due to serious bodily injury. His twin brother, Joseph James, and his 12-year-old stepbrother were not injured; the two are currently staying with other family members.

According to Jonathan’s grandmother Sue Shotwell, her grandson had contacted her in June and told her that he was afraid of living with his parents during the month-long, court-ordered custody visit.

“[Jonathan] called me and said, ‘Can I come to your house instead? I know I’m going to be in trouble while I’m there because I always am,’” Shotwell said in an interview with the Dallas News on Friday. “That’s the first time we ever heard that from him. The boy, because of a court ordered custody arrangement, were spending the summer with their biological father, but they were not willing to stay with their father,” Shotwell said.

Shotwell also revealed to FOX News that Jonathan’s twin brother knew about the punishment, and she had told him that he didn’t need to feel guilty because there was nothing that he could have done. She notes that Joseph later confessed to his grandmother that he had wished that he had “snuck him some water.”

Police documents show that the 10-year-old collapsed and hit his head on the floor after 5-days of going without water. Joseph later told police that his brother was put in a room without air conditioning and was told to stand near the window with the scorching sun beating down on him. He also notes that his brother had peanut butter stuck in his throat on the day he died, but his parents still didn’t allow him to drink any water.

After his parents had realized that the boy’s body was shutting down, they put him in a cold bathtub before they called paramedics, police said. He shortly died after he was rushed to the hospital.



  • cpdijv

    Those two pieces of shit deserve to die, plain and simple. I don’t even know what else to say, its absolutely tragic.

  • Bebob12

    Too bad they wont feel the boys misery Best hope is in prison they get beat to death still to good for them

  • https://openid.aol.com/opaque/14d27014-f554-11df-bbb5-000bcdca4d7a Texas Justice

    Death penalty: Texas, this time let’s use it on some rednecks.

  • jude mignacca

    Should’ve denied themselves food instead of torturing this kid, these two fat lardbutts.

  • tom

    I was shocked when I read the headline, but then was less surprised when I saw it was in Texas. What animals.

  • IrsihWitt

    This is what capitol punishment is for. The courts that ordered the visitation should be accounatable for forcing this child to stay with theses inhumane pigs.

  • sr

    This is one of the moments when the word outrage can not even encompass my feelings. This is also one of those times when you are overwhelmed that there are so many people willing to adopt and foster children, but who are overlooked and those unable to conceive….while these…**#!! are given blessings they spit upon.

    My heart goes out to his siblings and family members whose hearts where truly with him.

  • Lanwalt05

    Any violent criime involving a minor shoud inherit the death penalty. This hideous crime should have and could have been 100% prevented. Child custody scenarios should be closely monitored by Dept. of Child Services. Tragic.

  • Krsnhill

    THIS MAKES ME SO FUCKING ANGRY

  • Imskeptical

    Absolutely the courts should be held accountable. Family court judges and social workers are quite often arrogant and stupid beyond belief. The judge who ordered this custodial visit and the social worker who recommended it should both be stripped of their positions and also should be prosecuted for child endangerment. I’m sure both of them knew the children were afraid to go there.

  • Imskeptical

    Except that the human animal is the only one that would do this.

  • zombie

    They should have at least let him have water in the morning those two are basically murdered there son like rele wtf!

  • Hubbardanthony

    I just lost my twin brother an it is pain beyond anything ive been threw. r justic department needs to take a look into this case we ignor the signs r kids give us weather gradparent uncle aunts we all havw a responsabilitie to r young may your family find peace.

  • Huma Rasool

    Low IQ is evident.

  • lmao

    LOL AMERIFATS

  • Asasdsa

    These are the things that make me want capital punishment to be legal everywhere. I’m so mad. Poor boy.

  • Rongai1

    Dam he was a beautiful boy. I hope they are not getting any water in the slammer. Mean people suck. Their number seem to be growing quickly.

  • Dmack323

    I didn’t kno what to say when I read it but when I seen that they were white didn’t surprise me at all because they always killing they kids some how some way mmm mm mmm

  • Adrakecowboy

    The GRANDMOTHER ass should be stringed up too, cause she should have notifed (c.p.s) of what the boy called and told her. Poor child. May God Bless His Soul.

  • Nyfnst03

    Not only did his parents fail him but so did our justice system. I mean really??? Wth would make u withhold water from a child period, let alone for five days in 100 plus weather??? That’s freaking insane!! I hope there fat mfers make some really good friends in prison!! What happened to the days when they took pieces of $hit like this outside & put a bullet in their heads??? May this little boy’s soul now rest in peace.

  • Therese Newman27

    One instance I am glad Texas still uses capital punishment

  • Mjbags2008

    How can a parent do that to their own child, this shit makes me sick and mad as hell. I have kids and no way would I ever do anything to harm them. These fucking people need to die for the crimes they commit against kids. If I had no family I would commit a crime so I could be put in prison with these pieces of shit and kill them myself. When is the justice system going to start protecting all the innocent children in this world?

  • Poiu

    Outraged beyond belief! If the visits were court order, why was their any visit from social services? I think any household with a step- parent in the home are there is court orders visit needs to be monitored on a regular basis. The twin may kill himself because apart him is gone, and he feel it is his fault. So sad what more can I say.

  • Mrodriguez7369

    That is so messed up they both deserve to rott In hell n Dont desrve to be parents as for the surviving children they deserve better parents and I wish them the best of luck..

  • Jedia89

    Ummm are u serious both of them need to hang wouldn’t dare do that to kno child not even mine stupid bitchs sorry for mii words but that’s wat they are

  • Jbtakikawa

    Really really. That is so disgusting and I just can’t even believe it. People don’t even have hearts anymore.

  • Jbtakikawa

    True true

  • sh4dow

    I wish i could get a chance to see both of these low lifes.. I would show them both what pain feels like. Thats just so wrong i dont understand how they could do this.. I hope someone gives them what they deserve while they are in prison.

  • Golfcocks

    Imskeptical you are an idiot. You have no idea what you are talking about. If know so much maybe you can donate your time or become involved instead of pointing fingers. No one can foresee the future but maybe you can

  • Jefferyw37

    They need to be put an jail with someone that have lost a son from ppl like them an he should kill them.

  • Arbuckle_Doc

    It’s gonna take a whole extra crew of demons, t’ stoke th’ fires of Hell, hot enough fer this pair of sorry low-lifes!!! ~ I’m no great proponent of Capital Punishment, but, fer this pair, th’ sooner th’ better!!!

  • Vlloyd

    I agree completely with everyone who writes that the state/municipal authorities should have paid closer attention to the situation as it was unfolding. I know closer supervision comes at a price and that the taxpayers need to shoulder that burden. The truth is that the chance of proper govenrmental control and supervison is constantly being pared away by citizens trying to minimize their taxes.

  • http://profiles.google.com/the93rdkid First Name Last Name

    At this point, I’m all for letting them secede.

  • bxccccXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

    poor child, his parents should go to hell already…

    smh…-___-

  • Allan

    Just a pair of obese stoopid low lives, a waste of humanity, undeserving of any child or help from the “justice” system… And they are not alone, the mother of dirtbags is always pregnant….

  • Gunncowgirl69

    See if we still hung these types of people from the court house lawn idiots like this would decrease in numbers! Or eye for an eye lock their fat butts up in the 100 degree weather with no water and let them perish

  • MeAgain

    Sure hope they up those charges. Sounds like murder to me.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZTQZ6IQKFV3YW2MXEA6ZUKJ7UM stephanie

    prayers are with the ones he left behind, love you jonathan james you will be miss sweet boy, always had hugs for everyone.

  • Latchdkat

    most visitations are court ordered because divorced parents cant get along. what does being a step parent have to do with any of this? I am a step mother and would never think of treating my children or my step children this way. It is a horrible incident and those involved should be punished but it has nothing to do with being a step parent. With the divorce rate and remarriage rate if social workers tried to moniter every household with a step parent they wouldnt have time to do anything else. My mother was a social worker and had to quit because the job became too disturbing, she said that 50% of her calls were adults trying to get revenge on someone they were mad at. So if we as society really want to help we need to pay attention to true signs, stop trying to group together situations, and grow up a little bit. Someone should have picked up on this from the fear in the children, not assumed because there was a step parent in the house.

  • Parent

    OMG!! this is so sad. ‘Till what point parents has to go to punish a kid. Communication is very important. That is not love.

  • BlackKnightHero

    I don’t agree with you Golfcocks, it has nothing to do with seeing the future. I remember when my parents were going through a divorce and I begged the judge not to let them force me or my 3 other siblings to stay with my mother, because the woman was a blood-sucking parasite to life that beat her children senseless and left us to be babysat by her child molesting piece of shit for a boyfriend, and yet the court system STILL forced 4 kids to go through hell and live in that kind of an environment.

    Someone dropped the ball here with these poor kids and a child ended up dead because of it. I can and WILL point a finger at the parents because they are to blame, but a corrupted court system with overworked, underpaid social workers and court people who spend too little time really caring about the children they’re trying to save are also at fault. These kids, especially Jonathan, needed a hero to protect them and society(those who knew about it, but did nothing.) failed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aubrey-Langlois/100000332961389 Aubrey Langlois

    Why is it less surprising to see things like this happen in Texas, it should be inhuman and disgustingly profound in ALL places. Not “less surprised” when it happens in certain places. It’s like me saying, “Oh someone stole that really expensive television from your house? Oh, the guy was black? Why am I not surprised?” It’s ignorant and ill-advised to form such an opinion.

  • Tipico01

    When a parent is ignorant and mean, the child needs to be removed from the house. First of all why when the boy reached out to someone didn’t the person go get him. That gesture would have saved this young boy’s life. Secondly, though a child knows when he/she needs to go to the bathroom, the body isn’t mature enough at night to signal that he/she should get up to go potty. That is just a fact. Ignorance is dangerous. One must wait until the bladder is fully matured to signal the need to go at night. The development can be at any age. My brother-in-law wet the bed til he was fifteen or sixteen. Check with a pediatrician…more pediatricians should explain this phenomenon to all parents. My punishment for these ignorant parents who should NEVER have had children, keep water from them. Let them stand on the prison ground all day in the triple digit heat —standing only–if they sit, they should be whipped with a stick…do NOT give them water….but make sure that peanut butter is stuck in their throat. My only hope now is for fellow prisoners to beat the crap out of both of the b——s!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aubrey-Langlois/100000332961389 Aubrey Langlois

    I agree with you, if I had heard this conversation from ANYONE, I would have done something in an instant. If I had gone to jail for it even, at least I would have had the ability to feel better because I saved a child.

  • lobedoe

    When a parent is ignorant and mean, the child needs to be removed from the house. First of all why when the boy reached out to someone didn’t the person go get him. That gesture would have saved this young boy’s life. Secondly, though a child knows when he/she needs to go to the bathroom, the body isn’t mature enough at night to signal that he/she should get up to go potty. That is just a fact. Ignorance is dangerous. One must wait until the bladder is fully matured to signal the need to go at night. The development can be at any age. My brother-in-law wet the bed til he was fifteen or sixteen. Check with a pediatrician…more pediatricians should explain this phenomenon to all parents. My punishment for these ignorant parents who should NEVER have had children, keep water from them. Let them stand on the prison ground all day in the triple digit heat —standing only–if they sit, they should be whipped with a stick…do NOT give them water….but make sure that peanut butter is stuck in their throat. My only hope now is for fellow prisoners to beat the crap out of both of the b——s!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aubrey-Langlois/100000332961389 Aubrey Langlois

    I’m going to say the same thing I said to the gentleman above me a few posts. This comment is ignorant and beyond stupid. If I was to walk up to you and say, “because you’re black/mexican/ect. I think you stole my television.” It would make you feel like I was being a racist jerk. Or how about this? “The American’s obese population is primarily of the black demographic because all they eat is fried chicken and drink grape-aid isn’t a surprise to me.”

    How would you feel about that? Stick to the facts of this story and try to keep your illiterate, uneducated, naive comments to a more appropriate level. Not all white people are killing their kids, just like not all black people steal things.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hans-Greeber/100001521615247 Hans Greeber

    This is tragically sad and infuriating at the same time. I feel very bad for that poor boy, I wish he never went to that house.

  • justme

    The court officials should use the common sense the good Lord gives them! Although some children do make false accusations in some cases, if there is a life threatening situation…it doesnt take a rocket scientist to read body language or see true fear in the eyes of the young! As far as the parents, well…there is not a punishment on earth to suite them. I say let God deal w/ them BUT until them throw them in a 100+ degree hole and refuse them water! An eye for an eye is what I say….

  • Pork+Cheese

    No wonder the mother couldn’t get along with that POS. I bet he fought her for custody just to torture her like that poor boy. No matter what you pay social workers and clerks, problem is you can’t fire them for laziness and incompetence. Sounds like the family was reluctant to file a complaint. Absent that, there’s not much you can do. Fire up the chair for these two.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ann.oliveira1 Ann Oliveira

    I swear to GOD some people need to be either neutered at birth or tested before they are allowed to have kids to make sure they aren’t sadistic a**holes….jabones…hope they fry or that the lifers in the prison they go to know what they did…then this poor little boy will get justice…

  • Sheila

    Dear God in Heaven can we please just this once let the punishment fit the crime!! Why in hell did they not seek medical attention for this child..for possiably a bladder problem..instead these inhuman monsters kill him..God have mercy on the little children!

  • GleekFreek

    I can’t fathom this, It truly makes me sad.

  • Anonymous

    I just found 4 extra rounds of 5.56 :)

  • Anonymous

    Is it me, or do the murderous pigs, resemble one another?

  • Jen

    Not so ignorant, considering Texas had the country’s highest number of child abuse deaths last year.

  • Jenrenzi29

    But yes, of course, it’s just as “inhuman and disgustingly profound” in Texas as anywhere. Truly there are no words. That there was not just one brute, but two of them, supporting each other in torturing a little boy to death…

  • Coffeenut00

    This is why not all parents deserve custody visits. But, one thing I don’t understand. I have 3 kids, my youngest is 10, and I guarantee if I told them they couldn’t have water, they would find a way to sneak it at some point, especially if they thought they were gonna die. Those two pieces of shit must’ve been keeping a hawkeye on him for him to never have the opportunity to get water somehow.

  • sc

    agreed…run them through the express lane.

  • sc

    where was the biological mom in this? She is not mentioned. Who had regular full custody, I wonder. Not that it matters now, but it would’ve been nice if someone had to fought for this boy or his brothers to NOT go to his dad’s if he was that scared. Bedwetting is sometimes a developmental issue, but sometimes it is a symptom of stress and trauma, such as being in a house where you are perpetually scared or anxious.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Bob/100001712411868 Jim Bob

    The system killed him. Nobody was on the lookout for him. He was left at the bears and got eaten. What did we expect?

  • Jazzwitt

    Those two pieces of fatass shit cuntholes deserve to burn in hell for this shit!!

  • Katanawarrior2008

    They should be deprived from food and water. let these two fat pigs have a taste of their own medicine and die a horrible death. They should burn in hell!!

    I’ll pray that this kid gets sent to a better place.

  • Susan96003

    According to the grandmother, this was the first time the child had indicated that he did not want to go to his father’s house. That in itself is not terribly unusual, especially when there are step-parents in the picture. I mention this because other persons have posted comments regarding the stupidity and culpability of the courts and social workers. I didn’t see anything that suggested that an issue of child abuse had ever been reported.

    That said, I am just sick over how the (biological)mother and the grandmother must feel. My prayers are with them, knowing this angel is now in the arms of God.

    As for the souless vermin who did this, I doubt they will be convicted of murder. More likely manslaughter. If that is the case, I don’t even want to know the paltry price they’ll pay for a child’s life.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gayla-Sue-Anderson/1373687909 Gayla Sue Anderson

    Why weren’t they charged with murder too? Pre meditated at that…..just saying..

  • ZiggyDaClwn

    really golfcocks? what exactly are you talking about?
    the kid was obviously neglected
    do you seriously not see that after reading this? wow can we say idiocracy?

  • Rettro

    so true

  • Kevinfbody

    These people need capital punishment plain and simple

  • MomofaBoy

    Didn’t the biological mother ever call the house to speak with her boys to make sure they were happy/having fun/being well taken care of??? Not that it’s her fault that her boys were ordered to go live with these pigs, but I’m wondering if she had any clue of the suffering her son was going through. If she had talked to him on the phone during that time, she might have sensed something was wrong. I know personally, NOTHING would keep me from talking to my son for 5 days!

  • JS

    DEATH!

  • Belindamamula

    hang these morans or give them the death penalty.

  • Trevorlongisland

    speechless, hope i get my point

  • Sedj4wd

    PUT THEM OUT TO SEA AND LET THEM BE SHARK BATE

  • HL

    Absolutely charge these extremely evil people with murder along with the death penalty that will be carried out in a timely manner. Till then, house them in a prison cell with no air conditioning and minimal water.

  • Vikingpriest

    The sharks would choke and gag on all that LARD, but would be worth trying for sure.

  • Mouthy

    They should put them in a car without water and lock the doors. And at the last minute they should save them and put them in jail so that they can make new friends who will help them learn what it feels like.

  • jess

    omg thouse poor boys

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hillary-Flateau-Percivalle/633759370 Hillary Flateau Percivalle

    What is wrong with trash like these two people? They are not parents,they are evil and murderers. To scare the other children into saying nothing to anyone…so sad. That poor little boy. What was he thinking during this time? How scared was he? Does anyone care about that? I have a 8 year old boy and a 10 year old boy. I can’t imagine ever harming them,ever..Obivously there is something wrong with these two. God Bless that young man.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hillary-Flateau-Percivalle/633759370 Hillary Flateau Percivalle

    I absolutely agree. Nothing would keep me from talking with my 3 kids. Unless she was in the jungle with no cell service she should have called and she would of know something was off.

  • Allanpoe43

    fuck those fat fucks god will give them ten times folds for what they did to that baby boy ….:( R.I.P JONATHAN) hes a child of god so i know 4 a fact hes in gods hands now……Naomi Noriega

  • Allanpoe43

    They took a inocent life there for those pigs are going to be begging for even a drop of water in hell but instead they’ll be living in eternal Hell…..they will be burning in fire…. then Jonathan will be watching them suffer from heaven.. (R.I.P Jonathan ) THEY ‘RE NOT HUMAN……your in a better place now little jonathan . Anthony Gomez

  • Jcjoliat

    I understand everyone’s anger towards the child welfare and court system. However, its literally not possible to investiage each and every family to prevent such tragic events. Rather, people should not behave like real-life monsters and murder their children. There is no way these two grown adults didn’t realize that 5 days without water could kill a child. That being said, this becomes a murder charge. I too hope Texas hands out capital punishment on this one. Even if these two idiots didn’t know this could kill the child beforehand, watching him deteriorate for 5 days and not giving him water when he was choking are signs of their sadistic twisted minds ignoring what was unfolding.

  • ann812

    Wait till these people go to prison, they get their punishment there for what they did to this child, they knew what they deserve in the prison from inmates for killing a child…. what mentally ill people living in USA today .. very sad world

  • Mero19612003

    asses

  • bob

    Agreed 100%

  • Amylynn2300

    brother,sister,husband,wife,twin pair deserve death…angel rest in peace

  • Guest

    F*ck these people. From someone who had a child die during pregnancy, wanting one as badly as we have….My heart turns black when I think of these two adults.

  • Chris

    Not really… plenty of animals kill their offspring.
    Its just sad that the lesser of our species cannot be above even that.

  • Chris

    Pretty damn stupid to blame Texas for the actions of a couple of horrible people. What kind of perfect paradise do you come from where nobody has never done anything wrong?

  • Eww.

    Them both having heads like overgrown, bloated tubers will do that.

  • Chris

    All they would have had to have done would have been to waddle into his room and wake him up once to go to the bathroom. Wouldnt that have even been easier than killing him? Horrible.

  • Me in FL

    It doesn’t work that way. When my daughter would go for summer visitation, she was forbidden by her bio-mom to use the phone except once a week. And there was nothing we could do about it because the court papers said if we violated them it was contempt of court and we would permanently loose custody. Also, I knew my daughter as being abused and again there was not a damn thing you can do about it until they got old enough the court’s consider them mature and will listen (usually around 12 yo). Family law is total BS. The courts try to keep mom or dad in the picture but all they are really doing is trying to make decisions as as fast as possible.

  • Marymasonhorton

    those two freaks of parents deserve the same treatment – what is wrong with those crazy ass people?

  • Jacksonjerrie

    how can people live with themselves being as deranged as this? no way BOTH parents couldn’t have known this was inhumane! even though it’s no excuse, some people (or idiots) should know bed wetting sometimes takes much longer to out grow, if the don,t they should get the facts!!! fortunately for me, my parents where compassionate about it. i wet the bed until i was 12 or 13, at least 5 nights a weak. my parents took me to a doctor to ask why . it’s just one of those things of gorwwing up. either way abuse isnt the answer whether it’s physical or verbal for any punishment!!!! the parents wonder why there kids are so disfuntional in life. teach a kid good morales and give him a fighting chance in this messed up world we call life. as the say, monkey see, monkey do!
    also, i feel sorry for the brother, he’s going to need therapy . that kind of torment will way heavy on him forever!
    there’s no excuse for a sentance less than life with no prole, NO REASON!PEOPLE, LEARN FROM THIS! PASS THE KNOWLEDGE WITH SOMEONE.

  • Tallyho

    amen!

  • Dontjudgewhenujudge

    your an idiot for calling imskeptical an idiot! these case workers and judges should talk to the children, get their opinion, and assess how they decide .words look good on paper, but you should know the person in any situation you have to judge! by the way, you judged imskeptical when YOU called them an idiot, IDIOT!

  • Dont-toss-stones

    wht’s being fat got to do with being stupid! stupid!

  • Weallneedtobereasponsible

    why didn’t YOU talk to your case worker to check up for YOU!?

  • Kidswatchingandlistening

    doe’s it give you a sense of power and authority talking like this. do you have kid’s. are YOU setting good values this way?, espcially when young impressionable minds are listing to the way your wording your thoughts. isn’t that a form of abuse. what does that say about you? HMMM?!

  • WhatarepeoplecallingYOU

    if your the praying type, ask GOD too your tasteless mouth for deliverance from generalize insulting! being fat and other unrelateable names has nothing to do with it! of cours i’m sure you physically PERFECT!

  • Whatarepeoplecallingyou

    forgot the word to DELIVER you

  • Selectbetterwordingfoulmouth

    this is your BEST reply? everyone’s angry. extremly angry.

  • Katanawarrior2008

    Why are you only concerned about me?

  • FaithAll

    You use foul language “jazzwitt” It’s not necessary to make a point!

  • FaithAll

    Well said Kidswatchingandlistening!

  • cece

    eye for an eye…. no water for them and put them in a sauna for 24 hours !!!!

  • cece

    if the boys were sent to the father, most likely the mother was not in a condition to care for the boys.

  • Brenda Jacobs

    Why were they not charges with murder? They willfully and with depraived indifference withheld the basic necessities from this child.

    They Killed him.

  • Jenni Hughes

    let’s do 5 days….

  • Dachsiechic

    They never ask the child what they want to do….if a child is terrified to stay with someone they have been ordered to stay with via the court…..there might be something wrong there. Common sense please when handling our children’s lives. Recently a DHS worker in OK committed suicide over a decision to put a young girl in custody with her biological father who didn’t want her. She ended up dead, beaten by him.

  • Slstory

    no they need longer they are adults, their bodies can take more time to shut down.

  • Krudz

    Put them next to the window in the blazing sun with no water for as long as it takes!!!!!

  • Renee12006

    I’m not even for the death penalty, but I hope Texas juices this Fucktards!!!!!!

  • Stu476

    such an awful story, The 2 of those parents can not be more pathetic. I hope Texas has the death penalty.. They sure deserve it! Stuart

  • Jamez

    ENRAGED! Shoot those F*ckers in the face! Do this to a child? Peanut butter added to the demise I am sure. I am truly horrified and with these people the worst and the remaining children the best life possible.

  • http://www.facebook.com/connie.connick Connie Connick

    such cruel people in this world

  • ASB

    Wow, they are disgusting human beings and deserve to die via dehydration! Some people seriously make me sick with their actions.

  • Klflaw214

    Fat has a alot to do with being stupid!!
    People who are healthy, happy and take care of there bodies DO NOT refuse water to there kids!! Stupid

  • Holder031

    It never ceases to amaze me how stupid humans can be. This is absolutely horrible. I hope these two parents suffer so much pain the rest of their lives. But this poor boy is gone forever because he was born to idiots.

  • Leolyons

    What the frig is wrong with these people?? They don’t have a ounce of empathy, can’t understand how anyone could do this, I just don’t get it!! The only reason those people acted when they did was so they wouldn’t get in trouble, otherwise im sure that child would of still been denied water! they don’t understand

    what a accident is??? I’m pretty sure that child didn’t mean to nor want to wet the bed

  • Sdaa

    really they need a mental health check for certain court decisions

  • MomofaBoy

    The boys were only sent to their Dad & step-monster’s for one month visitation, not permanent. It’s just beyond tragic that those pigs couldn’t deal with them for even 4 short weeks. The most incomprehensible part: that they would sleep on it, and wake up with the same anger and STILL deprive him of water another day. Any time I’ve gotten angry, it has never lasted a whole day, let alone 5 days. How did these people get so twisted……

  • K H

    Grow up. Body size does not matyter when it comes to parenting. Look at Casey Anthony!!! Stupid!

  • Teedoff!

    Ughh this makes me soooooo sick! Capital punishment all the way for both of them! Don’t waste my tax $ by leaving them in jail..just rid of them!

  • scizzorz

    ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!

  • scizzorz

    Starting to realize people should be given a damn test to become a friggan parent!!!

  • Sandra

    Who could do that to their child? Some people just shouldn’t have children. That’s terrible, I couldn’t imagine making anyone go without water, especially not my child. And definitely not in that heat. People sicken me, I swear, these two people need the death penalty. Or have the same thing done to them as they did to their child.

  • Skittles_ice2000

    They Need 2 Fuckin Starve And Dehydrate There Fat Asses! This Is Fuckin Bull Shit! They Deserve A Death Sentence For Doing This!

  • Regbs

    “Court-ordered” custody. Gotta hand it to the professionals in Dallas’ court system and its child protective services. The judge who signed off on this order and the DHS personnel who overrode the good parent’s wishes should have their faces posted on billboards all over the DFW area. Overpaid, underworked, unionized public leaches giving service like this.

  • sam

    I want to cry. why was the boy imprisoned and tortured in his own home and by his parents? I can’t imagine how the boy felt.

  • guest

    would the people that keep taking offense everytime someone mentions fat shut up please. no one was calling you fat. they were talking about these 2 idiot adults that did this, and just pointed out the fact that theyre fat. no one called you fat or stupid so shut up with the complaining. who cares what people call these 2 idiots…

  • Artistsasha

    Ditto some people should not be allowed to breed

  • Always_at_vacation

    They both should be stoned to death

  • james williams

     Get off your high horse .Everyone react differently to tragedy.

  • james williams

    They would have withheld water from him whether he wet the bed or not . That was just their stupid excuse for what they did . They would have found another reason . He expressed that he wanted to stay home ,He said he was afraid he would be in trouble over there because  he always was . 

  • james williams .

    Love your use of the word waddle .Very appropriate.

  • Jlw331jr

    I believe they are 1st.cousins .That would explain the resemblance.

  • No

    Hilarious!

  • KDFKHGL

    Those guilty of cruelty to kids and animals, where the child or animal dies, should be tortured and then killed by public hanging. I want a front row seat. 

  • Thebookwormgirl

    pathetic worthless fat ugly cowards

  • Lucyy xx

    This made me suck to read this as a mother of two myself I don’t know how any parent could do this to their own child. Deny them of water for wetting the bed what is up with the sick bastards! Rot in hell they ain’t no parents they deserve to die. R.I.P poor boy god bless u xxx xxx

  • GothicKitten

    First of all, bedweting is usualy a sign that there’s something wrong with the child if they are over about 5 or 6 years of age.  It could be a sign of an underlying medical problem, it could be an anxiety or nervous problem, or even trace back to fear from physical or sexual abuse.  Based on this, and some of the things mentioned by the child such as “I’m always in trouble when I’m there…” I am confidant in the assumption that this isn’t the first time these “parents” if one could call them such, have engaged in abusive or destructive behavior toward their children before.  Being a former victim of child abuse, an adult child of an alcoholic and a college student currently studying the feild of human services gives me quite a bit of insight on the situation.  I had the same problem when I was little, my abusive dad lived in the same home as me and I wet the bed.  My mother kicked my dad out when he refused to quit drinking, the threat/sorce of the anxiety was removed and, suprise, suprise… never again did I wet the bed.  In the case of the fater and stepmother’s awareness of the situation (and inteligence), there’s not much to be said.  It’s common knowlege that the human body begins to shut down after 3 days of dehydration.  The fact that the poor boy lasted as long as he did comes as quite a shock, given the conditions of the situation, and tragicly he suffered to the very end.  These people knew full well what they were doing to their son, they frankly just didn’t give a damn, and I feel horrible for the surviving brother and greiving family but as for the parents….it’s a shame that in prison it’s considered abuse to deny someone their basic phisical needs.  How do they think the kid felt?  They dehydrate their son to death, and as “punishment” they get a free ride on taxpayer money, locked in a ventilated cell with 3 meals a day and as much water as they want.  At the very least the prison guard could make them drink out of the toilet…..

  • Danabelle2009

    I think these two fat ass fuckers need to die the same damn way. If I could only be king for a day. America should get like the 3rd world countries in the sense of our punishment for people here. We give people a slap on the hand and wonder why they keep doing the same things. When someone touches a child, chop that fuckers hand off, shit wouldn’t happen twice if our government grew some balls and started really laying some law down. Come on Obama, don’t let me down, do something.

  • http://memegenerator.net/Scumbag-American-Government The Game

     Might I suggest Electric Chair, Mauled by Lions, Murdered by Seal Team VI?