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Couple Accused Of Leaving Foster Son At Cleveland Browns Game

September 28, 2011 at 9:01 am by  

Anna Fugate Couple Accused Of Leaving Foster Son At Cleveland Browns GameCLEVELAND — An Ohio couple have been charged with misdemeanor child endangerment after allegedly leaving their 9-year-old foster son at a Cleveland Browns game.

I can only go by news reports but if Anna and Earnest Fugate are guilty of what they have been accused of they both deserve a karate chop to the neck.

Police reports say the couple were with their foster son partying in the city’s Municipal Parking Lot before the Browns-Dolphins game on Sunday when they got into an argument.

Anna ended up smashing Earnest’s cell phone before smashing her own. Earnest then walked inside the stadium, leaving the boy with a highly intoxicated Anna who would hand the boy over to some strangers headed into the stadium.

Police were contacted who immediately began searching for the couple. They were not found in the parking lot, nor were they found in their seats inside the stadium.

The couple, stinking of alcohol, were finally pulled over as they tried to drive away from the lot. They told the officer that they just wanted to go home and didn’t inquire about the whereabouts of their foster kid.

“When asked why they were leaving without their child, they shrugged,” the officer reported. “When asked why they did not report the child missing, they laughed.”

Joy Ewing, Executive Director of Children Services in Pickaway County, says that the boy has been in the Fugate’s home for about a year, and that the couple have been foster parents for over five years with no previous problems.

“We were shocked and we were disappointed to hear this information, but we did take the immediate action to remove the child from the home and no other children are placed in that home or are going to be placed in that home,” Ewing said.

The couple have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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  • Anonymous

    They left the kid at a friggin cleveland BROWNS game. They deserve the death penalty for that alone or at least an enhanced sentence just for living in Cleveland.

  • Anonymous

     and before all you people from “cleveland” jump all over me… admit it, I’m right. “Cleveland” lol.

  • Anonymous

    I guess the brightside is, if there is one, the kid will be removed from that environment and placed elsewhere. Better that than the strong possibility of him being abused or worse staying with these to losers.
    And from the looks of their photos, she is truly the dominate one in that relationship. That dude couldn’t look any sadder without tears running down his face.

  • Anonymous

    My Question is who goes to a Browns game in the first place and why?

  • LeaveMeBe

    I was thinking along the same lines. Even if they hadn’t left him there, they should be charged with child endangerment just for taking him to a Brown’s game. ;)

  • LeaveMeBe

    Uhhh….. those kinds of people. *pointing to the mugshots above* Pretty self-explanatory, right?

  • guillotinegirl

    “When asked why they did not report the child missing, they laughed.”

    It’s nice to read about a couple who is able to laugh in the face of adversity.

  • Hekate

    they got it all wrong.. safe havens are hospitals, churches, etc.
    A Browns game… really?

  • Anonymous

    Well the silver linning in this story is, they won’t be fostering(neglecting) anymore children.I like the karate chop to the neck idea Morbid

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CSQ7HVDKFEKNWEZT4WELYWEFWE Lavonna H

    lol yep

  • Stinkindrunk

    I’m a stinkin drunk and even I know it is bad form to leave your kids at a Browns game.  A Browns game for the love of god!

  • Tundratot

    Stinking drunk, angry, petty or stone cold sober, they had this child in their care for a year.  Too long to forget their responsibility to him.  Makes me wonder what that year in their custody has been like.  I know the social services say no problems were reported, but . . .   And the final paragraphs in the story have me worried that leaving him there was their intention.  That poor child!

  • Anonymous

    He sure has some nice looking dads.

  • Anonymous

    “…they both deserve a karate chop to the neck”.

    Which of the necks of each?

  • Anonymous

    ROFLMAO

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PTWOODZ24CU6IRVPIIDWCJFBFY cavylove

    Their faces should be enough to raise alarm for child services! Poor boy. They freaking laugh when they were asked why didn’t they report to the police. I would love to stuff them in a suitcase and throw them in a river. I’d donate the suitcase even.

  • Anonymous

    No shit.  It’d be like playing a pair of xylophones. 

  • Anonymous

    You know, I’m thinking when the kids get old enough to leave the nest, I think I’m going to talk the husband & see if we can take classes (although I know I’m supposed to feed, clothe, nurture & not hit/rape/molest nor do drugs/drink or have sex when around) so we can be foster parents.

    I think the little ones deserve to know what a nice good loving home is & the system needs help.

  • Anonymous

    Leaving for a day of fun tailgating at the Browns game.  Two cases of beer?  check.  Hot wings? check.  Ingenious, foolproof plan for getting rid of the annoying child we are paid to take care of?  check. 

  • Anonymous

    Why is it that people named Fugate never have any time. http://www.batmantas.com/img/clock8.jpg

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Damn … child services may as well start handing out these kids to Baboons … they can probably do a better job than these idiots raising the kids ,and I hear the Baboons will do it for bananas.

  • Anonymous

    this is totally off the subject, but did anyone ever hear what happened to the Mother (and I use that term loosely) who baked her son to death?  In MS?  I could never find out any more details.

  • http://twitter.com/SmileyVirus11 Smiley Virus

    Obviously who ever was monitoring their home was doing a terrible job. poor kid!