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I went to high school with the step-mother and never thought she could be capable of taking part in something like this. I find it ironic that she was calling for justice with the arrest of George Zimmerman a couple of weeks ago, then gets tagged with this.
I was just thinking about that "family" within the last few days and realized that I hadn't seen any pics or status updates of the child in about a year. It's sad what people will do when they can't handle a situation. How bad does it have to get to do something like this?
I was just thinking about that "family" within the last few days and realized that I hadn't seen any pics or status updates of the child in about a year. It's sad what people will do when they can't handle a situation. How bad does it have to get to do something like this?
Affidavit: Starving Boy Ate Own Feces
Published : Monday, 02 Apr 2012, 12:57 PM CDT
DALLAS - Arrest warrant affidavits for a Dallas couple accused of starving a 10-year-old boy to death detail horrifying allegations of the child's last few months.
Dallas police are still searching for Johnathan Ramsey's body in Ellis County, where his father, Aaron Ramsey, told detectives he left him.
According to the affidavits, Johnathan's step-mother Elizabeth Ramsey told detectives that the starvation began in March 2011 when Johnathan struck her in the stomach while she was pregnant with triplets, causing her to lose the babies.
She told police that her husband Aaron locked Johnathan in a bedroom at their home on Clearwater because he became "increasingly violent" and fed him only bread, water, and occasionally milk, the affidavit says.
The document also says the child's weight fell from 90 pounds to about 60 pounds, and Aaron Ramsey once watched his son eat his own feces.
Elizabeth Ramsey said her husband gave his son "military rations" for several weeks from mid-March until May 2011, and she ended up making the boy lunch and dinner, according to the affidavit.
But she says her husband then again took over feeding Johnathan. She said she knows she "should have" contacted Child Protective Services, but did not, the affidavit says.
Elizabeth Ramsey said she again began feeding Johnathan from late July 2011 until August 2, when the child presumably died, the document says. She said he was too weak to stand and looked "like one of the kids you see on the commercials from Africa," according to the affidavit.
When Johnathan died, according to Aaron Ramsey's affidavit, the father told police he bathed his son, dressed him in his favorite t-shirt and pants, then put him in a sleeping bag with a dryer sheet to cover the smell.
Aaron Ramsey said he put his son's body next door in a vacant home's storm shelter for a few days, then moved the boy's body to a rural part of Ellis County, the documents attest.
Police began looking into the boy's disappearance when the child's grandfather contacted them last Thursday, saying he hadn't seen Johnathan since January 2011.
The maternal grandfather said every time he called Johnathan's father, he'd get a different story.
Published : Monday, 02 Apr 2012, 12:57 PM CDT
DALLAS - Arrest warrant affidavits for a Dallas couple accused of starving a 10-year-old boy to death detail horrifying allegations of the child's last few months.
Dallas police are still searching for Johnathan Ramsey's body in Ellis County, where his father, Aaron Ramsey, told detectives he left him.
According to the affidavits, Johnathan's step-mother Elizabeth Ramsey told detectives that the starvation began in March 2011 when Johnathan struck her in the stomach while she was pregnant with triplets, causing her to lose the babies.
She told police that her husband Aaron locked Johnathan in a bedroom at their home on Clearwater because he became "increasingly violent" and fed him only bread, water, and occasionally milk, the affidavit says.
The document also says the child's weight fell from 90 pounds to about 60 pounds, and Aaron Ramsey once watched his son eat his own feces.
Elizabeth Ramsey said her husband gave his son "military rations" for several weeks from mid-March until May 2011, and she ended up making the boy lunch and dinner, according to the affidavit.
But she says her husband then again took over feeding Johnathan. She said she knows she "should have" contacted Child Protective Services, but did not, the affidavit says.
Elizabeth Ramsey said she again began feeding Johnathan from late July 2011 until August 2, when the child presumably died, the document says. She said he was too weak to stand and looked "like one of the kids you see on the commercials from Africa," according to the affidavit.
When Johnathan died, according to Aaron Ramsey's affidavit, the father told police he bathed his son, dressed him in his favorite t-shirt and pants, then put him in a sleeping bag with a dryer sheet to cover the smell.
Aaron Ramsey said he put his son's body next door in a vacant home's storm shelter for a few days, then moved the boy's body to a rural part of Ellis County, the documents attest.
Police began looking into the boy's disappearance when the child's grandfather contacted them last Thursday, saying he hadn't seen Johnathan since January 2011.
The maternal grandfather said every time he called Johnathan's father, he'd get a different story.
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