Above picture & article found @: The Time
"Mother, boyfriend locked boy in closet, beating and torturing him over two years, Chicago authorities say"
"It was a dreary Sunday morning on Chicago’s South Side when someone spotted the boy.
Wearing only a soiled pull-up diaper, he was seen running against southbound traffic on Lake Shore Drive, a busy eight-lane thoroughfare that hugs the coast of Lake Michigan.
A passerby called 911 to report the alarming sight. When police arrived, they found a 7-year-old covered in cuts and bruises, malnourished and bleeding from a fresh gash above his left eye. A doctor who examined the boy would later say he had never seen so many injuries on a human being, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
As the boy was being treated at the hospital, police found the person that prosecutors now say is responsible for his wretched condition: his mother.
During a bond hearing last week, prosecutors told a judge that the couple would regularly beat the boy with an electrical cord, a baseball bat or a pole, the Sun-Times reported. In one instance, prosecutors said, the boyfriend held the boy down on a hot stove and burned his genitals with a curling iron.
Court records revealed other gruesome details about the alleged abuse. According to the Chicago Tribune, the boy told police that Woods and her boyfriend would force him to sleep and go to the bathroom in the closet for long stretches, feeding him sporadically and never letting him go outside. His meals, when they came, consisted of cans of okra and protein shakes, prosecutors said. And to keep an eye on him while they weren’t home, the couple allegedly installed video cameras in the apartment and monitored the footage on their cellphones..." Read entire article and see photos @: The Washington Post
