Home > Abuse > Child Abuse > Child Endangerment > Woman Found In Own Feces Chained To A Weight Bench

Woman Found In Own Feces Chained To A Weight Bench

January 7, 2010 at 1:04 pm by FlamingFox

Kenosha, WI- On Saturday, officers in Wisconsin were alarmed to discover what they are calling one of the most disturbing abuse cases they had ever encountered. Inside a residence in Kenosha, police found a 2 1/2 year old child strapped in a car seat in a small, dark room. His face was covered, his diaper loaded, and his hair infested with lice. But that was not the worst of it. In the dining room of the home, a 38-year old woman was found lying on the floor covered in urine and feces with her left ankle was chained to a weight bench. The frail woman appeared to weigh no more than 70 pounds and, after the chain was cut, she could not straighten her legs, stand or walk. What kind of monsters would do something so cruel and callous? Sally Adams, 56, and her son, Ernest Claiborne, 34. Sally, the mother of the chained woman and grandmother to the neglected child, at first told police she did not know who had chained her daughter up. She then fessed up and said her daughter has the mental capacity of a 5-year old and was chained to prevent her from wandering and even admitted to giving her sleeping pills from time to time to prevent her leaving the house. Ernest told police he put the toddler in the car seat to prevent him from walking around so he (Ernest) could take a nap.

Woman Found In Own Feces Chained To A Weight Bench This all came about after police followed up on a complaint from the father of Sally’s grandson who told authorities that she had barred him from seeing his son since September and that her daughter might be neglected and chained in a squalid home. A 13-year old boy, who answered the door when police arrived, later said the woman was chained for as long as three years and was released only “once in a while” to be cleaned. Sally Adams and Ernest Claiborne were arrested and charged with felony false imprisonment, abuse of a person at risk and reckless endangerment with bail set at $10,000 each. Sally’s daughter was taken to a hospital where police found ligature marks on her ankle, as well as 10 to 15 marks on her back. Because his mother is currently incarcerated in Wisconsin on two cases, a battery charge and a forgery case, Sally’s grandson has been placed in a foster home by the Wisconsin Department of Children and Family Services.

Tags: Child Abuse, false imprisonment, neglect, Reckless Endangerment, toddler, Wisconsin

20 Comments

Comments

V2 Cigs electronic cigarettes - Break Free From The Pack!

The views expressed in the comments are those of the comment writers and don't represent the views or opinions of D'D or its staff. Feel free to flag comments that may violate conditions outlined in our Disclaimer.

Undeniable Truth

My god.
http://twitter.com/SeanPoindexter Sean T Poindexter

This is not unlike something I investigated when I worked for the state. There was no child involved though.
MeAhna

The poor little baby! Geez, the poor woman! I just can't understand how some people can justify shit like this in their minds. Lets strap him in a chair & chain her ass to a bench. All in favor say aye: AYE.
purplninja

all I can say is….. OMFG
wishfulsinful

seriously, what is wrong with people?? and $10k bail for these turds?? I say chain them together in an 8×10 cell half full of diarrhea.
Scarlett62

OHMYGOD!!!!!!!!! Some people just need killin'.
Jury

Wow, I guess for years Sally just walked by her little paycheck on the floor.
sarabei

I just can't wrap my head around the cruelty people continue to do…sigh….
http://www.facebook.com/msmothers1 Monica Smothers

I am disgusted that someone would even think of doing something like this to someone else, much less so their own family. What type of fail is in them that they would do that crap? I say instead of putting them in a room of diarreah, let's put them in a 8×10 cell filled with solid manure. They will die from either suffocation or germs alone.
mom2tbet

Wait, am I reading it wrong or does the article state that the chained woman is being incarcerated for battery and forgery?
dr.awkward

You're reading it wrong. The little boy's mother, who is also the daughter of Sally Adams, is in jail for battery & forgery.
Can't know for sure if she was aware of the conditions in which her son was being kept, but I suspect she had to have an inkling. If that woman was chained to a weight bench for at least 3 years, keeping the baby in a dark room so he'll stay out of the way and quiet was probably a regular occurrence as well.
mom2tbet

Ah, gotcha. If mom was incarcerated, wonder why custody was not given to dad?
defenestratethis

A true nightmare for both the woman and child, whose father, thank god, had the integrity to call the authorities. There might be hope for that litttle boy yet, but I wonder if the same holds true for Adams's daughter. If she was treated in such a fashion for several years, I cant imagine what the long term psychological and physical effects would be. God bless them both.
Siobhan

May these two window foggers find out just how comfortable it is to wear chains for several years to come.
John

If anyone buys the it was all to keep them safe story then they are fools.I have seen crap like this before and trust me its NEVER for the best intrest of the poor souls being abused.
Deety

But the father of the baby only stopped seeing his son in September, and the woman had been chained up for three years. He told police a woman might be chained up in that house. So he KNEW about it, just didn't report it until they pissed him off.

Not exactly integrity, in my book
Booger

What fine, upstanding citizens! They both have a decent appearance and seem perfectly normal, right down to the filthy Afro the son is sporting. How'd you like to run into this garbage in a dark alley? This country is doomed!
whisperswing

UPDATE BUT REALLY NOT MUCH RELEASED YET:: Inside, the officer found a home in “complete disarray” with “an odor of urine and faces so strong he nearly vomited,” according to the complaints.

Inside, the officer found a home in “complete disarray” with “an odor of urine and faces so strong he nearly vomited,” according to the complaints.

The woman, who was shivering and wearing only a T-shirt, was covered in urine and feces, lying next to a similarly rank blanket, police said. The woman, was unable to communicate with police Claiborne told officers he didn't know where the key to the chain on the woman's leg was, and said she had been chained to the weight bench because she otherwise would leave the house and get lost, police said.
The 13-year-old who answered the door told police he had known Adams and Claiborne about 3 years, and that she had chained that whole time. He said she was only unchained “once in a while” to be cleaned, the complaints state.
Claiborne claimed he had been planning on taking a nap about 4 p.m. Saturday, and that his sister had been chained because his mother had gone shopping.

He said he had not taken her to the bathroom or fed her Saturday.

Adams told police her daughter could use the bathroom herself “if she remembers,” and could feed herself and talk. But she said she gave her over-the-counter sleeping pills to keep her from leaving the house, the complaints state.
http://www.wickerbenchstorage.net/hall-storage-bench Hall Storage Bench

This is cool! And so interested! Are u have more posts like this? Plese tell me, thanks
DastardlyDog

I cannot believe there are people like this walking around. Psychopaths.