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LAS CRUCES, NM (KDKA) ― A former local doctor and his wife face charges in a strange and unusual child neglect case.

Dr. Kenneth Yaw was by all accounts a well-respected orthopedic surgeon at UPMC Mercy Hospital when he and his wife moved from Fox Chapel to Las Cruces, NM, a year ago.

According to the Web site for the New Mexico courts, Yaw and his wife, Rita Starceski, each faces seven counts of abuse of a child for incidents which were, according to Yaw's daughters, punishment for misbehavior.

Las Cruces Police say three of the girls reported at different times being locked in the garage of the couple's $600,000 golf course home for days - even weeks - with only a sleeping bag, peanut butter, bread and water and allowed into the house three times a day for bathroom breaks.

An 11-year-old said she was being punished for not having the family dog on a leash, while the 13-year-old said she was being punished for not doing her homework.

In another incident, Yaw is accused of waking three of the girls, a 13-year-old and 15-year-old twins, in the middle of the night, driving them to a dangerous side of town and leaving them alone in a run-down mobile home for two months.

Neighbors in that trailer park say they fed the girls since they were left with no food or money to buy it.

The neighbors say the girls did have a cell phone but it was programmed to call only their father's and stepmother's phones.

Dr. Yaw and his wife were released on $70,000 bond each. The girls have been placed in foster care.
http://kdka.com/local/Kenneth.Yaw.abuse.2.793642.html
 
Neighbors in that trailer park say they fed the girls since they were left with no food or money to buy it.

The neighbors say the girls did have a cell phone but it was programmed to call only their father's and stepmother's phones.

So neighbors knew that there were three underage (really underage) girls living alone in a trailer with no food and no real phone, and they did nothing for two months?

Real neighborly of them.
 
Hey--it's my hometown! All I can say is that it had to be hotter than shit in that garage. The trailer, too, since I can't imagine they were provided with air-conditioning but not food.
 
They were indicted on Thursday.

http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_10634836

LAS CRUCES — A Las Cruces surgeon and his wife have been indicted on child abuse charges stemming from the alleged confinement of four children to a garage and a mobile home as punishment.

Kenneth Yaw, 55, and Rita Starceski, 43, were indicted Thursday by a Doña Ana County grand jury.

They each were charged with six counts of third-degree intentional child abuse not resulting in great bodily harm or death. Each count carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison.

A trial date has not been set. They were due to be arraigned Oct. 13 in state District Court in Las Cruces.
 
Damn, and this man was a surgeon wouldn't want him cutting on me! I'll never never understand people who abuse children, kill, pedophiles, etc. All I can say is Fuck, fuck, fuck, they all suck!
 
If they didn't want kids they couldafford to send them to a boarding school. They were SOOoOooo stupid! The children could have ALL been killed at that trailer court. At least the residents were kind enough to feed them. If the neighborhood was that bad, residents were not likely to call the police. Trust me.
 
They each were charged with six counts of third-degree intentional child abuse not resulting in great bodily harm or death. Each count carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison.

Sad, the grand jury didn't take into account how this messed up their kids heads.
That should have added atleast 20 years more before a plea bargin.
Maximum 18 years each, will be watered down if they plea out to pittance.

I almost wish their kids would go "postal" on them and get rid of them once and for all.
 
Despite pending abuse charges, a no-contact order and nearly 2,000 miles of separation, Dr. Kenneth Yaw still is trying to assert control over his children.

The former UPMC orthopedic surgeon, arrested in August and charged with abusing four of his daughters, is fighting to have them moved from the care of relatives in upstate New York to the home of family friends in Cincinnati.

Yaw and his second wife, Rita Starceski, are bound by a court order to have no contact with the girls -- 15-year-old twins Kelly and Colleen, Michaela, 13, and Bridget, 11. But Yaw has retained his parental rights and still has a say in where his children live, as long as it's not with him.

A judge in Las Cruces issued a court order approving Yaw's request. But a family court judge in New York ruled to keep the children in their current home -- for now.

In the eyes of older sister Kate Yaw, 26, of Washington, D.C., the court fight to move the girls is not surprising behavior for the man she refers to as "Ken."

"Just because you take them out of the environment doesn't mean that having the father decide on a whim to move them here or move them there is keeping them away from that abuse," said Ms. Yaw. She is the oldest of 10 children of Yaw and his first wife, Maureen, who died in September 2001, after a three-year battle with breast cancer.

Ms. Yaw said her father refused to tell her why he was seeking to move the girls.

The abuse allegations shocked friends and others who knew the family in Fox Chapel. Friends remember the large Yaw brood as a friendly and well-behaved group, led by the decorated surgeon father and cheerful mother.

That all changed, friends said, when Maureen Yaw died.

Yaw and Ms. Starceski married in 2003 after they met online. Yaw withdrew the children from activities and frequently changed homes and schools, alienating many friends. A few of the older children left home before they turned 18 and were cut off from financial support.

Yaw left UPMC for Mercy Hospital in 2004. When UPMC acquired Mercy in 2007, the family moved to New Mexico.

In Las Cruces, the children were schooled at home and isolated. Last summer, according to a criminal complaint, the twins and Michaela were forced to live in a ramshackle trailer on the other side of town from the family's $600,000 house on a golf course.

Yaw got into an argument with a neighbor in the trailer park and called police, who discovered the girls' living situation and arrested the doctor and his wife. Ms. Starceski, police said, was culpable because she was aware of the abuses and did not stop them.

The girls were taken into custody by New Mexico's Children, Youth and Families Department. They later moved to the home of their stepmother's brother and his wife, Paul and Robin Starceski, in Findley Lake, N.Y.

Kate Yaw said the girls quickly blended into their new community. At Thanksgiving, all of Maureen Yaw's children gathered together for the first time in years.

But in December, Yaw and Ms. Starceski nominated Jim and Angie Louis of Cincinnati, Ohio, to be temporary guardians of the girls.

The Louises have nine grown children and have kept in touch with Dr. Yaw since the early 1990s, when he operated on one of their children.

The Louises said they knew little about the court case and were just trying to do a favor for a friend.

Family and friends said they had no problem with the Louises, but said they think Yaw is trying to exert power over his children from afar by housing the girls with people who see him in a better light.

The girls' supporters criticized New Mexico authorities for not moving to terminate Dr. Yaw's parental rights after he was arrested.

A spokeswoman for the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department said it acts to terminate parental rights when parents don't follow a prescribed plan, not just because criminal charges are pending.

Records show Yaw and Ms. Starceski completed a court-ordered parenting class in November.

Though they have moved around the country over the past couple years -- and the legal wrangling has drained almost all of the $13,500 in donations raised and placed in a fund for the children -- Ms. Yaw said her sisters have been resilient.

"Because they know that people didn't just abandon them," she said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09018/942683-455.stm
 
Perfect example of how social or economic class has nothing to do with the capability of someone to be a douche bag.

He definetely sounds like a control freak.
 
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