Current Events > Oklahoma family arrested for allowing teen to starve and live in barn.

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Solar_Crimson
07/20/18 4:27:18 PM
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https://kfor.com/2018/07/19/oklahoma-family-arrested-for-allowing-teen-to-starve-live-in-barn/

A teen starved and living in a barn - police and DHS discovered the 15-year-old boy severely malnourished with broken bones and other signs of abuse.

The boy's father, Jimmy Jones, was arrested on child abuse and neglect charges. Jones's wife and stepsons were also arrested for child neglect.

"From the outside, you would never suspect something was going on," said Adam Panter, Lincoln County assistant district attorney.

The victim is recovering from his extensive injuries at O.U. Children's Hospital.

Those who live in the small town find the allegations hard to believe.

"They seemed like normal people, nice," said Zach Guy.

Investigators said the Jones family is far from nice.

Doctors told investigators they're surprised the boy survived.

"A passerby saw a 15-year-old victim out in a field, and became concerned due to his appearance of his condition and called DHS," Panter said.

The teen weighed only 80 pounds, and he didn't even look 15.

"About a month ago, we were just working on the fence and a little boy came up. We thought he was an 8-year-old, really scrawny, real short, you know, barefoot," Guy said.

Guy remembers seeing the victim again - this time, with injuries.

"Little while later, we saw him come up, bruise on his head. We thought maybe he got into an accident in the barn," Guy said.

Investigators said the teen told them the head wound was from his dad. And, he never received medical attention.

"At one point, his father had pulled maggots out of him and superglue it shut, telling him that doctor's were too expensive to take him to," Panter said.

Panter said the teen told police more.

"He been shot by his dad with a shotgun with birdshot, and x-rays revealed he did have shotgun pellets still lodged in his leg," Panter said.

Panter said the parents, step brothers and a 4-year-old girl lived in the home and appeared healthy and fed. He went on to say the animals were also well taken care of.

"He had to forge for his own food; he wasn't allowed food from inside the house," Panter said.

The victim was forced to eat twigs and grass and sleep on an old, ratty couch. He had one book in the barn as his only means of entertainment.


"The doctors at O.U. Children's Hospital, after treating him and testing him and evaluating him, determined that, have he not been found, he would have been dead of starvation within a week," Panter said.

The teen was pulled out of school two years ago; investigators believe that's when the abuse started.

What a sick fuck the father is, as well as the family for allowing this to happen.
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Veggeta X
07/20/18 4:30:35 PM
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WTF why did they do this?
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lww99
07/20/18 4:32:47 PM
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Well, that was the most fucked up thing I've read all day. Damn.
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NeonOctopus
07/20/18 4:33:14 PM
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LightHawKnight
07/20/18 4:34:11 PM
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Pulled maggots out of him?!?!
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Ving_Rhames
07/20/18 4:36:23 PM
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Fucking WHY? This kid will never be able to recover from this. Agggh.
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SpiralDrift
07/20/18 4:42:38 PM
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That poor kid. Even after he gets healthy the experience will no doubt affect him for the rest of his life.

It's pretty unfair that they'll be fed better in prison than they fed him.
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SSJosHBK_Blue
07/20/18 4:44:53 PM
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I mean, why was the family arrested? Sounds like they gave him a safe space from an abusive father.
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BlueBoy675
07/20/18 4:48:07 PM
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What the actual fuck
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Veggeta X
07/20/18 4:50:35 PM
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SSJosHBK_Blue posted...
I mean, why was the family arrested? Sounds like they gave him a safe space from an abusive father.

Whose alt is this?
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Solar_Crimson
07/20/18 5:12:04 PM
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SSJosHBK_Blue posted...
I mean, why was the family arrested? Sounds like they gave him a safe space from an abusive father.

Do you ever not make an idiotic post?
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Solar_Crimson
07/20/18 11:47:57 PM
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BUMP
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Star_Spirit
07/23/18 6:49:51 AM
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the south
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chrono625
07/23/18 10:36:32 PM
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Solar_Crimson posted...

The teen was pulled out of school two years ago; investigators believe that's when the abuse started.


After 2 years, no one knew this kid wasnt enrolled in school?

But his siblings were?
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glitteringfairy
07/23/18 10:38:24 PM
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Star_Spirit posted...
the south

Oklahoma is not the south
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Delirious_Beard
07/25/18 8:30:27 PM
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lol he got banned
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slimfizzle2
07/25/18 8:35:43 PM
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Fuck them all. I have nothing but love and adoration for my son and would never dream of doing anything to hurt or break his spirt
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Coffeebeanz
07/25/18 8:37:52 PM
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OU Children's Hospital is amazing
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ChainedRedone
07/25/18 8:49:18 PM
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glitteringfairy posted...
Star_Spirit posted...
the south

Oklahoma is not the south


Uh yes it is. Well, in the broad definition. It is definitely not "Deep South".
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Annihilated
07/25/18 8:53:55 PM
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ChainedRedone posted...
glitteringfairy posted...
Star_Spirit posted...
the south

Oklahoma is not the south


Uh yes it is. Well, in the broad definition. It is definitely not "Deep South".


Uh, no it's not, racist.
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Peter_Griffin33
07/25/18 8:54:46 PM
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Oklahoma is considered to be Midwest.

Source; I fucking live here
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A_Good_Boy
07/25/18 8:58:19 PM
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The kid was 15 years old, why didn't he try to flee or alert anyone for aid? Why did the family abuse this kid specifically and not any of the other children? Why didn't the county do some investigating to figure out why one kid was pulled from school and not any of the others? So many questions.
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