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Jessiesgirl1108

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I haven't posted an article in a long time...I think I remember how to do this :nailbiting:

Anderson, Indianapolis - Father-of-three Steve Sells, 58, from Anderson, Indiana, was arrested on Monday night - but he insisted that his daughter was so small because of her medical condition, authorities said.

[...]

Anderson Police told Fox59 that the teenager, who is mentally disabled, was severely malnourished and covered in feces when she was taken to hospital.
She weighed just 35 pounds, which is the average weight of a five-year-old child.

[...]

Sells was the only family member arrested, but other family members have been questioned, The IndyChannel reported.

The man blamed his daughter's low weight on a medical condition, Anderson Police Detective Joel Sandefur told WTHR, but 'that has to be investigated to see if it's even plausible or not', he.

[...]

Sells will faces preliminary child neglect charges. He will likely face more serious charges if his daughter does not survive her injuries.
He is currently being held on a 72-hour hold and it is not clear whether he has an attorney.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2857522/Man-arrested-40-pound-15-year-old-daughter.html
 
That's interesting the article refers to her severe malnutrition as "her injuries." That's a fact you usually don't see detailed in neglect cases re: starvation. It's about time the physical damage starvation/severe malnutrition do to the human body is finally being acknowledged as "injuries" caused the person(s) responsible. Since they don't describe anything other than mental retardation, I'm curious what the investigation will show.
 
Anderson, Indianapolis - Father-of-three Steve Sells, 58, from Anderson, Indiana, was arrested on Monday night - but he insisted that his daughter was so small because of hermedical condition, authorities said.

Yeah... because that totally explains why you left her covered in her own shit. Asshole.
 
Poor baby :( hungry and covered in shit I wonder if she was trying to eat it to survive gives me the chills just thinking someone could do this to their own child especially one who needs more love and attention than regular kids.
 
Dad and Stepmom sure don't seem to have missed any meals. I bet this girl was starved to death over pure laziness. I bet the other two kids that could fend for themselves are fit as fiddles. This girls communication skills are probably significantly impacted. She is physically unable to fend for herself...probably unable to feed herself...IMHO based on info I've read and years of experience working with MR individuals.
 
Indiana girl, 15, found to be malnourished and weighing just 35 pounds, cops say
An Anderson police officer found that the girl's bones 'were protruding more than her flesh, and there were also feces on her feet,' according to the probable cause affidavit obtained by the Daily News. Dad Steve Sells, 58, is being held for 72 hours while Madison County prosecutors prepare to file charges.
 
This guy is a monster. Dragging that poor child by her head of hair!! Locking her up. Not feeding or changing her. Of course she fell. She's too weak to stand but wants to live and keeps fighting. Bless her heart. I hope this man...I don't even want to call him a father...and his wife go to prison forever. She is just as guilty. Where is the compassion? The love? The nurturing? I'm sure they were spending her check every month! It sure didn't go to feed her or for her needs. I'm so beyond ticked off after reading this article.:rage::rage::rage::rage::rage:
 
Make sense me sick.:depressed: Before I even read the article I knew she would be blamed. Because its
always the victims fault. :grumpy: Didn't she ever go to the doctor? If her parents couldn't deal with
her problems they should have given her up. There are people who are very good at caring for
people with disadvantages. They are gifted that way. The birth parents should be starved for
a few days, and not allowed bathroon privilges.:):devil:
 
Grandmother is arrested over mentally-disabled teen who weighed just 35lbs as it emerges the girl 'was kept locked in a feces-covered room with a bucket'
  • Joetta Sells, 54, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon, hours after her husband Steve Sells, 58, was arrested for neglecting the child on Monday
  • Authorities investigated after relatives took the girl, who was covered in feces and weighed the same as a five-year-old, to hospital
  • They found a locked room at the house that contained a feces- and blood-covered mattress, blankets, a bucket and bowl filled with oatmeal
  • Another child at the home said they would see the girl trying to get out
  • Steve Sells told police he locked her up to protect himself from the girl
[...]

They allegedly kept the teenager locked in a room with only a mattress, space heater, blankets, a bowl with oatmeal and a bucket, according to the documents first shared by Fox59
[...]
Everything inside the room was covered with feces and blood, authorities said.

[...]

The teenager and a four-year-old child moved in with the couple when their mother abandoned them four years ago, according to the court documents.
The older girl, whose grandfather said suffers from a chromosome problem in her brain, was kept locked up inside the room by Steve Sells, according to his wife of six years.
She had not been to the doctors or to school in two years, the Indy Channel reported.
He told authorities he locked her in the room to protect himself, claiming that the 35lb girl was strong and had previously approached him with a knife.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rl-kept-locked-feces-covered-room-bucket.html
 
Steve Sells told police he locked her up to protect himself from the girl
Really? A 35 pound, malnourished and emaciated girl, and you had to lock her in a room to "protect" yourself.

Well, damn, I say that if he is that feeble that she posed that great of a threat to him then we better put him out of his misery via a bullet to the brain to ensure his safety.
 
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Joetta Sells​
Grandparents arrested in connection with malnourished girl locked away in room
[...]
where the teen lived with her grandparents. Investigators carried out several brown paper bags filled with evidence Tuesday afternoon.
[...]
Steve Sells was awarded custody of the girl in 2009. Records show Steve Sells appeared in court on November 6 in regards to child support issues involving the teen.
[...]
they said the girl was so thin that bones were protruding from her skin. She was flown to Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital because of her condition.

Steve Sells told police he was the girl’s legal guardian because his daughter had abandoned her.
[...]
said she had a chromosome problem in her brain that caused her to have health problems and said she’d fallen Monday and a few days ago, causing her condition to worsen
[...]
Police said the girl is mentally disabled.

During a search of the home, investigators found an upstairs room with a lock at the top of the door. Inside they found a mattress, space heater, blankets, a bowl with oatmeal and a bucket.

Police noticed blood on the floor and “feces on everything in the room,”
[...]
“It’s very disturbing, we wouldn’t accept treatment of an animal this way let alone a human being,” said Detective Joel Sandefur
[...]
A 4-year-old child who lives in the home told police that the 15-year-old girl was locked in the room and would sometimes “stick her fingers out around the door trying to get out.”

Another child said Sells would lock the door “during the day and nights” and that the girl was left in the room with inadequate heat. That child described Sells “picking up (the girl) by her hair and dragging her.”

“It’s difficult to imagine, police are also contacting neighbors and trying to get as much information as we can about how this could’ve happened and no one notice,” said Rodney Cummings
[...]
According to Prosecutor Cummings DCS asked for a court hearing regarding the girl in 2011.

“Well they had a hearing and I think they were asking for court intervention for them to be permitted to take the child out of that environment or to get services and the court did not permit that to happen at that time,”
[...]
go on to say Joetta Sells told detectives that her husband locked the girl in the room. When asked about it, Steve Sells told police he locked her away “to protect himself” and said “she was very strong, and that he would have to squeeze (her) arm because she would approach him with a knife.” Police noted that the girl weighs less than 40 pounds while Sells said he weighs between 200 and 225 pounds.
[...]
told police he hadn’t taken the girl to a medical exam since January 2012.
http://fox59.com/2014/12/02/court-d...-room-with-bucket-inadequate-heat/?hpt=ju_bn2
 
Make sense me sick.:depressed: Before I even read the article I knew she would be blamed. Because its
always the victims fault. :grumpy: Didn't she ever go to the doctor? If her parents couldn't deal with
her problems they should have given her up. There are people who are very good at caring for
people with disadvantages. They are gifted that way. The birth parents should be starved for
a few days, and not allowed bathroon privilges.:):devil:

Be reasonable, now! Sure, this sounds bad, but that's no reason to punish these poor folks by removing their SSI check, I mean child, from them.
 
Wow. DCS needs to be thoroughly investigated over this. Wonder if this was a case of bullshit bureaucratic nonsense making it impossible for them to more closely monitor or enforce anything with this family or if it was flat out dipshit laziness and incompetence.
 
Fuck all three of these assholes!!

One of the Anderson grandparents charged in a horrific child neglect case learned her punishment Monday.

The second decided to withdraw his guilty plea and will instead face trial in November.

Joetta Sells was sentenced to 24 years in the Department of Correction with no probation. She had pleaded guilty to battery and neglect. Her husband, Steve Sells, had planned to plead guilty to neglect, battery and criminal confinement charges in a case involving their 15-year-old granddaughter, who was severely malnourished. Steve Sells was expected to learn his sentence Monday, but withdrew his guilty plea and denied the battery counts against him.

The physically and mentally disabled girl was found on Dec. 1 inside their home. Prosecutors said the girl weighed only 40 pounds when they found her. Prosecutors said the Sells essentially kept the girl locked away from the world in an upstairs bedroom. She was so thin that bones were protruding from her skin. According to court documents, the girl was forced to eat her own waste on several occasions. Investigators didn't expect the girl to survive.

The girl, now 16 years old, has made a miraculous recovery. She's in foster care and weighed more than 100 pounds when she returned to school. Yay!!!!!!!!

For the first time, the girl's caretaker spoke publicly in court. She said the teen eats like a starved animal and suffers from separation anxiety. The woman showed pictures of the girl on her first day of school and talked about her progress.

During Monday's sentencing hearing, Joetta Sells claimed she couldn't go up the stairs and didn't know about the girl's condition. She also said the teen was outside helping put up Christmas decorations the week before she was found unresponsive. She placed the blame on her husband and called him abusive.

The judge said Joetta Sells showed a lack of remorse and told her there was no reason the situation should've happened at all. The judge said people treat pets better on their worst days than she treated the teen.

http://fox59.com/2015/10/12/anderso...-case-grandfather-to-stand-trial-in-november/

A single tear ran down Steve Sells' cheek during his sentencing hearing.

But Madison Circuit Court Division 6 Judge Mark Dudley didn’t interpret that tear as a sign of remorse

“It’s too little, too late,” Dudley said Friday as he announced a maximum sentence of 24 years.


Sells, 59, spoke in an inaudible voice during the sentencing hearing, telling Dudley he loved his grandchild.

In pronouncing the sentence, Dudley said in numerous court appearances Sells didn’t show remorse, until just minutes before the sentence was announced.

He sentenced Sells to a 24-year executed prison sentence, the same sentence imposed on his wife, Joetta, earlier this month. A sentence of 14 years for welfare fraud will run concurrently with the abuse sentence, and Sells was ordered to repay $55,590 to the Social Security administration for payments received to care for his 15-year-old disabled granddaughter.

Dudley said facts that were relevant in determining the sentence were that the girl weighed 45 pounds when paramedics were called, had no pulse and was not breathing.

Defense attorney Bob Summerfield said his client has taken his share of the blame. He said Sells left work on Dec. 1 because of an emergency situation on the day the girl was found by paramedics and wanted to call 911.

Summerfield said it was Joetta Sells who wanted to wait before calling for aid.

“He had control of this child since the age of two,” Summerfield said. “It was not until Joetta came into the picture that there was a problem.”

He said Sells worked a lot of hours and that he trusted his wife to care for the girl.

Summerfield requested a 10-year sentence for his client.


Dudley said he didn’t accept the claim that Sells' wife was the caregiver, noting public safety officials said there was a horrific smell in the house.

“They have been playing the blame game since day one,” Wade said of claims by both Steve and Joetta that the other was to blame for the girl’s physical condition. “They took no responsibility for what took place over a number of years.”

http://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/...cle_07e058e0-8fbd-11e5-9146-17f8c2ff2690.html

The July trial scheduled for Crystal Sells, charged with felony counts in the confinement, battery and neglect of her niece, has been continued.

Defense attorneys Jennifer Goodwin Schlegmilch and David Shircliff requested a continuance of the July 12 trial in Madison Circuit Court Division 6 to continue plea negotiations with the Madison County Prosecutor’s Office.

A new trial date of Dec. 13 was set. This is the fourth time the trial has been continued.


Sells, 22, is scheduled to go on trial on several felony charges including neglect of a dependent, criminal confinement resulting in serious bodily injury and battery resulting in bodily injury of her 16-year-old niece.

She has been free on a $20,000 bond since January 2015.

Shircliff said the continuance was requested to continue negotiations on a plea agreement with the prosecutor’s office.

http://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/...cle_16886824-2dd8-11e6-a34a-53aef29dcec0.html
 
I wouldn't blame her if that starving girl attacked her grandfather. They treated her like a starving feral cal locked in a kennel. She might have reacted like one.
At least physically she has recovered well.
 
This stupid bitch. Fuck all the way off with this nonsense.

During opening statements Wednesday in Madison Circuit Court 6, Crystal Sells’ defense attorney told the jury that Sells was helpless in the house where a 15-year-old girl was severely neglected.

After the prosecution showed photos of the girl’s emaciated condition, the defense characterized Sells as powerless to intervene in the neglect of her niece.

Defense attorney Jennifer Schlegelmilch talked about how Sells was betrayed when her mother let Steve Sells move into the family's home in the 2400 block of Forest Terrace and how Steve Sells betrayed the victim by abusing her.


Crystal Sells didn’t have any power in the situation, as she did not have a job, any income or transportation, Schlegelmilch said. She described Steve Sells as a tyrant in the home.

“Crystal Sells was as powerless at that house as (the victim) was,” the defense attorney said.

The prosecution stated facts from the case and pressed that there were three people who were responsible for the condition of the victim during the time they lived together, and Crystal Sells is one of them.

Courtney Staton showed a few photos during the opening statement on behalf of the state, which included an exterior view of the Anderson home, the room the victim was locked in, the bucket in which the victim was told to use the bathroom and a picture of her back in the hospital.

“The room was littered with feces, hair and blood,” she said. “She had no food and no medical care.”

More photos were shown by Deputy Madison County Prosecutor Daniel Kopp as he questioned Marcus Drinket, a paramedic who assisted the victim at the scene.

Kopp asked Drinket to explain and confirm 15 photos were of the scene of the incident and the victim at the hospital before the evidence was published and shown to the jury. The photos showed the frailness of the girl, who weighed 52 pounds when she was found, and her injuries.


When the photos were shown to the defense, Sells moved her face over her shoulder so she could not see the photos until attorney David Shircliff motioned for her to look at them. She then cried.

Drinket said the victim was not breathing and had no pulse.

“Clinically speaking, she was dead,” Drinket said.

He also said the victim wasn’t able to be revived until she received more care at St. Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital and that he stayed at the hospital for a couple of hours before she was airlifted to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.

Drinket was the only witness to testify on Wednesday. Kopp has said he has as many as 24 witnesses he will call to the stand during the trial. Steve and Joetta Sells are also scheduled to testify.

http://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/...cle_c11b3050-f948-11e6-8e51-173f4e74beb9.html

The trial is on going.
[doublepost=1488648096,1488036488][/doublepost]Guilty. As is if there was any doubt.

A woman has been convicted in the case of abuse of a teenage girl.

Investigators charged Crystal Sells after they learned Sells’ father, Steve Sells locked his disabled granddaughter in a room for more than a year.

According to court documents, Crystal Sells was an “active participant” in the abuse of the then 15-year-old girl. One witness told police Crystal Sells hit the teen with a plastic chair, documents show.

Investigators said Sells’ niece, a young disabled girl was locked in a room, forced to urinate in a bucket and defecate on herself while her grandfather Steve and Joetta Sells collected government assistance checks meant for her care.

According to the Madison County Prosecutor’s Office, Crystal Sells was found guilty on all charges presented to the jury.

Crystal Sells’ sentencing is scheduled for March 27 at 10 a.m.

http://wishtv.com/2017/03/03/woman-...-teen-girl-was-found-weighing-only-40-pounds/
[doublepost=1490733641][/doublepost]Bitch was sentenced yesterday.

On Monday, Madison Circuit Court Judge Mark Dudley rejected the argument that Crystal Sells, who also lived in the home, was also a victim.

Dudley sentenced Sells to 12 years in prison for her part in the girl's mistreatment — a sentence that was half the length requested by the Madison County prosecutor's office.

A jury had found Sells, 23, guilty earlier this month of six felonies: three counts of neglect of a dependent and three counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, according to court records. She was accused of neglecting her underage niece, who lived with Sells and Sells' parents, Steve and Joetta Sells.

"I wish I had known I could help her," Sells said Monday in court. "I was too stupid to look past my fear to help her."

Sells' attorney, David Shircliff, argued his client was a victim herself. He blamed the Indiana Department of Child Services for failing to protect the teenager despite repeated warnings she was not being fed properly by Steve and Joetta Sells. The Sellses are the girl's grandparents and were her legal guardians.

On Oct. 1, 2010, DCS filed a Child In Need of Services petition against the Sellses regarding their granddaughter. But the agency asked a judge to dismiss it a month later "due to the investigation being closed and finding no evidence," court records state.

In January 2012, a medical professional recommended the girl be admitted to the hospital to get a feeding tube. The Sellses made an appointment to admit her but never showed up, police records state.

"This is a failure of the state, a failure of the system," Shircliff said Monday.

Shircliff also criticized the criminal justice system — including the Madison County prosecutor's office — for failing to find out the truth of what happened. He said Crystal Sells was isolated and mistreated by her adoptive father.

Dudley rejected claims that Sells was a victim. He pointed out that Sells repeatedly lied to police about the girl's treatment and tried to clean up the girl's bedroom before police arrived.

Dudley also pointed out that Crystal Sells had an iPad, iPhone and Internet access, so she could have sought help for the girl during the years of mistreatment. He said the harm suffered by the girl was "atrocious" and "as extreme as extreme can be."

But Dudley opted not to give Sells the maximum sentence. He said her parents were more at fault.

Steve and Joetta Sells pleaded guilty and are each serving 24 years in prison, the maximum sentences they could have received. The judge also ordered Steve Sells to repay $55,590.35 in government funds he had received to care for his granddaughter.

Today, officials say the girl is healthy and doing well with her new guardian.

Crystal Sells sobbed, hugging her family after the sentencing hearing. She said she plans to appeal.

Shircliff said he doesn't agree with the sentence imposed by the judge but appreciates that Dudley took it seriously.

"It's a lot less than I thought it would be," Shircliff said.

Daniel Kopp of the Madison County prosecutor's office had argued that Sells should receive the maximum sentence of 24 years.

"The judge thought 12 years was appropriate," Kopp said after the hearing. "The judge makes that decision. It's his call."

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/...man-gets-12-years-atrocious-neglect/99693804/
 
Only sorry for themselves, sorry they got caught, sorry they got to prison, just sorry, plain and simple.
 

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