If you sometimes feel like putting your children in a cage to control them sounds like a good idea, consider moving to Ohio. Sharen and Michael Gravelle only received two years in prison for keeping some of their eleven adopted children, who had a variety of special needs, in chicken-wire covered cribs with urine-stained mattresses. They each faced up to 20 years total for four charges of felony child abuse, as well as seven misdemeanor charges apiece.
Some of the children, who are now in custody, provided written statements which were read at sentencing. One girl wrote of the Gravelles, "[they] are grown adults who know the difference between right and wrong. So I
ask that they get as much time in jail for as long as my siblings had
to be in cages." Unfortunately, the court seems to have disagreed with her. Hey, ho, way to go, Ohio.
