tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54321061345016846972024-03-12T19:01:54.629-07:00Random MusingsAmericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03586352641322605823noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432106134501684697.post-62895756845084057722011-06-28T13:19:00.000-07:002011-06-28T13:22:06.138-07:00christian choate, boy tortured by father<h1 class="title-news" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: normal normal bold 32px/36px Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Christian Choate, Boy Who Died Locked In Cage, Wrote About Abuse And Desire To Die</h1><div class="comments_datetime relative v05" style="border-bottom-style: none; 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Authorities never discovered what prosecutors claim was the true depth of the misery in which young Christian lived.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Based on accounts from his sister and stepsister, Christian, who died in 2009 at age 13, spent much of the last year of his life locked in a three-foot-high dog cage, with little food and drink and few opportunities to leave. When he did get out of the cage, he endured savage beatings from his father Riley.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One night in April of 2009, Christian was too weak to keep his food down. His father <a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Gary-Boy-Wrote-Letters-Detailing-Abuse.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #00614f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">allegedly beat him to the point of unconsciousness</a>, then locked his limp body in the cage.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The next morning, his sister Christina found him dead.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">According to investigators, Riley then buried the boy in a shallow grave, covered his body in concrete, and moved with Christina to Kentucky, where he threatened to harm her if she ever told anyone about his death. It would be <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/10/christian-choate-boy-foun_n_859967.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #00614f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">two years before his body was found</a>.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One of the reasons his absence wasn't noticed was that his stepmother, Kimberly Kubina, took him out of school, saying that he was being home-schooled.</div><div class="adver_cont_below" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font: normal normal bold 11px/normal Arial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div id="adwrap_mid_article_57c57e0315dcce3246d795410944df09" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="mid_article_deco" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 23px; padding-top: 17px;"><span class="mid_article_ad_label" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; color: #bbbbbb; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: -24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; width: 186px;">ADVERTISEMENT</span><br />
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When other children were out playing, Kubina would give Christian paper and tell him to write.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Christian wrote of why nobody liked him and how he just wanted to be liked by his family," <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/6159623-417/boy-who-died-after-being-locked-in-cage-wrote-about-his-desire-to-die.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #00614f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">a DCS document wrote</a>, according to the <em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-style: italic !important; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chicago Sun-Times</em>. "Christian stated that he wanted to die because nobody liked the way he 'acted.' Christian's writings detail a very sad, depressed child who often wondered when someone, anyone, was going to come check on him and give him food or liquid. Christian often stated he was hungry or thirsty."</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In a still more disturbing twist, the <em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-style: italic !important; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Northwest Indiana Times</em> reveals <a href="http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary/article_b1fdc580-8a7d-50f4-b9a7-0503202d0f9f.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #00614f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">some of the assignments his stepmother gave</a>:</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(5, 139, 123); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(5, 139, 123); border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(5, 139, 123); border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(5, 139, 123); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; font: normal normal normal 13px/20px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px; padding-top: 7px;">Kubina wrote topics on top of some of the pages including, <strong style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Why do you want to play with your peter? Why do you still want to see your mom? Why can't you let the past go? What does it mean to be part of a family?"</strong> DCS records state.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Riley Choate and Kimberly Kubina have been charged with murder, battery, neglect of a dependent, confinement, obstruction of justice, moving a body from a death scene and failure to notify authorities of a dead body. They have both pleaded not guilty.</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br />
</div><div>this article really struck a chord with me and i can't seem to get it out of my mind. do i have any solutions, any explanations, any wise words that can offer any sense of hope? no. i have nothing but raw, seething, anger. and great sadness and remorse for christian. anger towards riley, the father, whose job it was to care for and protect christian, to make sure that none of this kind of abuse was to happen to him. anger towards rest of the family for not seeing a way to help christian escape his torture. anger towards all of humanity for being capable of and giving into such barbarity, anger at an omniscient and omnipotent god who allegedly created us, who should have known how we'd turn out, and yet created us so, human. angry at myself because i can do nothing to stop this. how can we humans do this to children, to other races, other nationalities, and sleep at night? how can we go to our churches, temples, mosques, and live, and face ourselves and god? how can god live with himself? and the parents had the nerve to name him christian? how do you say i'm sorry to a 13 year old who died never knowing a moment of happiness, of love? who lived every moment of his life wondering why was he born and why won't he die? why won't someone help him, love him? yes, i am a cynic. yes, i am a pessimist. and to my dying day, i hope and pray, and will cheer, the end of human beings. when we can do this to each other, we have no reason to exist.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div>Americohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03586352641322605823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432106134501684697.post-44733483791175300892010-12-23T23:15:00.000-08:002010-12-23T23:15:36.815-08:00The Folly that is HumanityHow interesting and sad that humans are their own worst enemy. Humans are pretty much the cause of all their problems. The planet, the environment, would eventually heal itself and return to balance if humans were taken out of the equation. All other species live in balance with he environment, and as a result, the eradication of any other species would affect the balance. This cannot be said about humans. The eradication of humans would not adversely affect any other species. In fact, the environment would benefit from the eradication of humans. The only way we become relevant is to become less arrogant, less selfish as a species, and live in balance and harmony with the environment.Americohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03586352641322605823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432106134501684697.post-56397574385270071812010-11-23T10:42:00.000-08:002010-11-23T10:42:26.729-08:00Thanksgiving in ManilaAny friends, family, Tbirds, Witt, ex-pats or on business in Manila over Thanksgiving and don't have any plans? Head over to Mario's, 191 Tomas Morato Ave corner Scout Gandia in Quezon City. They have a Thanksgiving turkey dinner on the menu.Americohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03586352641322605823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432106134501684697.post-69944723808219341742010-11-03T12:23:00.000-07:002010-11-03T12:23:54.732-07:00HumanityHow can one be optimistic for humanity when humans insist on being shortsighted?Americohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03586352641322605823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432106134501684697.post-59526427573103725092010-10-30T14:43:00.000-07:002010-10-30T14:43:40.033-07:00ReligionWhy are people making an issue of evolution/creationism? Why not teach science in science class and religion in religion class? That's what they did in the parochial schools I attended and it didn't seem to confuse anyone.Americohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03586352641322605823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432106134501684697.post-13513250281827901392010-10-25T21:19:00.000-07:002010-10-25T21:19:11.351-07:00Elections 2010I guess it's commonplace for politicians to skew the truth to serve their purpose but the republican candidates for governor and lieutenant governor in texas, Rick perry and David Dewhurst, lie so cavalierly, both during their terms and now in their campaigns, they have no business being in office. Talk about a couple of slimy, scum buckets.Americohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03586352641322605823noreply@blogger.com1