Paul & Chastity Kubie & Sharon Twocrows abuse and starve a 4 year old in a pigsty

[Mom of 4]

Sharon Twocrows
Paul Kubie
Chastity Kubie

NEOSHO, Mo. — A Joplin man, charged with abuse and neglect of a 4-year-old boy, will stand trial on those charges.

Paul J. Kubie Jr., 28, was bound over for trial in Newton County Circuit Court after agreeing to waive his preliminary hearing Wednesday, according to court records. Kubie is charged with four counts of first-degree child endangerment and one count of child abuse. He allegedly used a belt to strike the 4-year-old boy and allowed him to live in unsanitary conditions at the home.

Kubie was one of three people arrested in early February after a call to the state’s child-abuse hot line led sheriff’s deputies and child-abuse workers to a home at 1636 Rainbow Drive, south of Joplin. Authorities also arrested the other two adults living at the home: Kubie’s wife, Chastity Kubie, 27, and his mother, Sharon Twocrows, 50.

When he was found by authorities, the 4-year-old weighed 22 pounds, 8 ounces. He later reportedly told investigators that he “sometimes” got to eat with the others in the household.

Authorities said the boy said that when he was in trouble, he had to stand on his bed while the rest of his family ate. The boy alleged that after he started getting up in the middle of the night and getting into things, Twocrows and Chastity Kubie started tying him to his bed at night with shoestrings. Sometimes he allegedly was “spanked” with a belt or paddle by Twocrows and Paul Kubie.

Authorities said they found the 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 4-month-old girl inside the home with no running water and three toilets full of unflushed feces. A sheriff’s deputy described the house as unsuitable for children, with trash piled in every room, and the kitchen counters and sink cluttered with dirty dishes and rotting food.

The children were removed from the home, as was the 5-year-old brother of the malnourished boy, who was found at school. The Kubies are the parents of the two girls, and aunt and uncle to the boys. Twocrows is the grandmother of all four children.

Paul Kubie’s arraignment is set for 9 a.m. Monday, June 9, in Newton County Circuit Court.



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Chastity Kubie, charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree and one count of child abuse, was bound over for trial in March. A pretrial conference in her case is scheduled for 10 a.m. June 16.

Sharon Twocrows waived her preliminary hearing in March, and was bound over for trial on four counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree and two counts of child abuse. A pretrial conference is scheduled for 9 a.m. June 2.

http://www.joplinglobe.com/neosho_ne...ml?start:int=0


More info in this article.

http://www.neoshodailynews.com/news/...ild-abuse-case

[~Absynthe~]

Hey Mom of 4 this was on the front page back on February 8th..when i seen it, I thought I have read this before so I searched for it.

http://www.dreamindemon.com/tag/sharon-twocrows/

[TheLittleFriend]

I read this thread before. Digusting!

[Mom of 4]

Hey Mom of 4 this was on the front page back on February 8th..when i seen it, I thought I have read this before so I searched for it.

http://www.dreamindemon.com/tag/sharon-twocrows/

I searched too lol. I guess it doesn't search the front page articles or something. Oh well now it is in the forum too.

[impqueen]

Thanks for the update! I'll get the front page updated to reflect the changes. This one definitely needs to be both places. :D

ETA: Updated.

Twocrows And The Kubies: A Band of Abusers

[Jaded]

NEOSHO, Mo. — A rural Joplin woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to child abuse and child endangerment, charges alleging that she withheld nourishment from a grandson, struck him with a belt and tied him to his bed with shoestrings, according to court records.

Sharon Twocrows, 50, was charged with four counts of felony child endangerment and two counts of felony child abuse. She was one of three people arrested in February after a call to the state’s child-abuse hot line led sheriff’s deputies and child-abuse workers to a home at 1636 Rainbow Drive, south of Joplin. Authorities also arrested the other two adults living in the home, Paul L. Kubie Jr., 28, and his wife, Chastity V. Kubie, 26. Twocrows is Paul Kubie’s mother.

Paul Kubie is charged with four counts of first-degree child endangerment and one count of child abuse. Chastity Kubie is charged with one count of first-degree child endangerment and one count of child abuse.

Authorities said the boy said that when he was in trouble, he had to stand on his bed while the rest of his family ate. The boy alleged that after he started getting up in the middle of the night and getting into things, Twocrows and Chastity Kubie started tying him to his bed at night with shoestrings. Sometimes he allegedly was spanked with a belt or paddle by Twocrows and Paul Kubie.

Authorities said they found the 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 4-month-old girl inside the home with no running water and three toilets filled with unflushed feces. A sheriff’s deputy described the house as unsuitable for children, with trash piled in every room, and the kitchen counters and sink cluttered with dirty dishes and rotting food.

The children were removed from the home, as was the 5-year-old brother of the malnourished boy, who was found at school. The Kubies are the parents of the two girls, and aunt and uncle to the boys. Twocrows is the grandmother of all four children.

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/loc...170210231.html


The 4-year boy appeared to be ill and was taken to Freeman West Hospital in Joplin where it was determined he was suffering from malnutrition.

He weighed only 22 pounds.

Later, he told social workers that he “sometimes gets to eat with everyone else” and that when he gets in trouble he has to stand on his bed while everyone else eats.

Paul Kubie later verified that food is sometimes withheld from the boy as punishment.
However, the grandmother, Twocrows, told authorities that the 4-year-old is just a picky eater. She said if he won’t eat his vegetables, he isn’t allowed the rest of his plate.

While at the hospital, the boy kept asking the nurses for more food, the affidavit stated, until they were finally afraid he would get sick if he ate any more.

“With the little boy, we’re basically talking severe neglect and starvation,” stated Captain Richard Leavens of the Newton County Sheriff’s Department.

Paul Kubie wouldn’t speak about the matter, other than to say he trusted his mother’s judgment and that his nephew was tied down to keep him safe.

Twocrows told detectives the boy was only tied those nights she had to work and then on other nights when she needed her rest.

Both the 4-year-old boy and the 2-year-old girl had several bruises on their bodies. The toddler’s was on her lower back and rear and appeared to have been made by an athletic shoe. The boys’ bruises were all over, including one that wrapped around his left arm.

As to the unhealthy state of the house, Kubie said it was because the family had only recently moved in.

But Twocrows told investigators they were just “lazy.”

Bond was set at $250,000 apiece.

http://www.neoshodailynews.com/archive/x1973323414

Assholes....

[ImmortalOne]

*sigh* 4 yrs old and weighing nearly as much as my 9 month old! WTF! And less than the 6 month old I had at work!


I don't understand the thinking on the food either. For me, if the kids refused to eat what was served to them, they just didn't eat till the next meal. Period.

[Shadow]

that is how it was in my house.. if one of the daughters didn't want what was served, she went hungry, and it was that way until she decided to eat. I've been told it could be construed as child abuse or neglect for allowing the child to go hungry, but my thought is this.. if I'm a single mom on welfare with 2 or 3 kids, there is only so much money and food stamps to buy food and pay the bills. I think a roof over their heads comes first, then groceries. Hell, some months we went to the local food closets and got stale cereal and canned foods. They learned to eat what was put in front of them or they'd not get anything until the next meal. It's how my mother raised me and I didn't starve to death.


~ceisdsgil

[impqueen]

that is how it was in my house.. if one of the daughters didn't want what was served, she went hungry, and it was that way until she decided to eat. I've been told it could be construed as child abuse or neglect for allowing the child to go hungry, but my thought is this.. if I'm a single mom on welfare with 2 or 3 kids, there is only so much money and food stamps to buy food and pay the bills. I think a roof over their heads comes first, then groceries. Hell, some months we went to the local food closets and got stale cereal and canned foods. They learned to eat what was put in front of them or they'd not get anything until the next meal. It's how my mother raised me and I didn't starve to death.


~ceisdsgil

That's very different from what happened to this child. This story is not far from me and I covered it on the front page back in February (and will update it today with the new information.) This kid was tortured, starved, restrained and beaten. I know some of the medical and law enforcement personnel on this case and it was heinous. These people deserve some serious jail time. The only reason this kid didn't end up with necrotic flesh to his extremities is that he wasn't restrained quite long enough.

edit to add: front page article updated here: http://www.dreamindemon.com/2008/02/...nd-of-abusers/

[SoUncool]

http://www.neoshodailynews.com/news/...ild-abuse-case

A Joplin woman and her daughter-in-law were each sentenced to seven years in prison Monday on charges of child abuse.

Sharon Twocrows, 50, and Chasity Kubie, 27, both of Joplin, entered guilty pleas recently in Newton County Circuit Court to one count each of felony child abuse. The sentences were the maximum penalty allowed under state law, and the two were also ordered to pay $300 to the public defender’s fund and $46 in court costs.

[crickett]

The place was filthy and had no water because they had "just moved in". Why would you move into a place like that?
And......HHHEELLLoooooooo....they were NOT feeding that child! He weighed 22 pounds as a 4 year old! This doesn't even RELATE to people not giving their child something else to eat if they didn't want what was available that meal. YOU are talking about a child being PROVIDED with food and not eating it. So they went hungry UNTIL THE NEXT MEAL! THIS child was NOT being ALLOWED to eat. And NOT just until the next meal.
THAT IS CHILD ABUSE!

[nurseronda]

The place was filthy and had no water because they had "just moved in". Why would you move into a place like that?
And......HHHEELLLoooooooo....they were NOT feeding that child! He weighed 22 pounds as a 4 year old! This doesn't even RELATE to people not giving their child something else to eat if they didn't want what was available that meal. YOU are talking about a child being PROVIDED with food and not eating it. So they went hungry UNTIL THE NEXT MEAL! THIS child was NOT being ALLOWED to eat. And NOT just until the next meal.
THAT IS CHILD ABUSE!

Oh Crickett, Sharon Twocrows was in nursing. That is what pissed me off in the first place when I saw this posted on the front page by Miss Imp.

[MOGal]

Cindy Anthony is a nurse too. Sucks doesn't it,.....and of course it's reported in the news,..no mention that the son is a cook at McDonald's, the daughter is a teller at a bank,....but lets make everyone aware of the nurse in the middle of all of this!!!

[MOGal]

Hey Ronda if it makes you feel any better,..just did a search and she isn't licensed in the state of Missouri!

[nurseronda]

Hey Ronda if it makes you feel any better,..just did a search and she isn't licensed in the state of Missouri!

I know, I did a search when it all came out.

[Tazzzz]

**Update **

Sharon Twocrows, plead guilty to " child abuse " and was sentenced to seven years in prison.. ( They sent her to " Chillicothe Correctional Center " )

Chasity Kubie plead guilty to " endangering the welfare of a child " and was sentenced to Five years in prison.. ( They sent her to " Chillicothe Correctional Center " ) The state recomended the full 7 years but she only got 5 years.

Paul Kubie plead guilty to " first-degree child endangerment. " he was initially sentenced to four years in prison. But it got changed to "120 days shock incarceration and ordered to perform 120 days of community service ".

In a seperate court case paul was ordered to pay over $11,000 for damages they did to the hiome, so it wasnt like that when they moved in, they did it.

A rural Joplin man was sentenced to shock time and community service on a felony charge of first-degree child endangerment.

Paul Kubie, 28, was initially sentenced to four years in prison on charges he allowed four children under his care to live in squalid conditions. Kubie received 120 days shock incarceration and ordered to perform 120 days of community service.

Kubie pleaded guilty to a felony child abuse charge in December. In exchange for the guilty plea, which came the day before a trial was to begin, the Newton County Prosecutor’s Office dropped three similar charges.

Paul Kubie verified food was sometimes withheld from the boy as punishment.

Last October, Twocrows and Chasity Kubie were each sentenced to seven years in prison after each pleaded guilty to a felony child abuse charge. The sentences were the maximum penalty allowed under state law, and the two were also ordered to pay $300 to the public defender’s fund and $46 in court costs.

Twocrows and Chasity Kubie originally each faced four counts of child endangerment and two counts of child abuse.

http://www.neoshodailynews.com/news/...d-endangerment
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Oct 6, 2008 06:43 PM CDT
Grandmother gets seven years in prison for child abuse
Jail time was handed down Monday for two people involved in a Newton County child abuse case.

On Monday, the grandmother, Sharon Twocrows, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to child abuse.

Her daughter-in-law, Chasity Kubie was given five years in prison for endangering the welfare of a child.

Chasity's husband, Paul, remains charged. He has plead not guilty, and will go to trial in December.

http://joplin.com/news/2008/dec/18/n...rment-charges/
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shock incarceration

shock incarceration is an alternative to traditional incarceration and that successfully diverts them from prison and further criminal activity. Corrections has developed a Shock Incarceration Program where participants are involved in an intensive curriculum of discipline, work, strenuous physical activities, education and other programs. Shock Incarceration is designed to instill the offender with self-discipline, a positive attitude, good values and behavior..

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