Ashly Clark, Nebraska Mother, And Other Adults Accused Of Keeping 2 Boys In Wire Dog Kennel

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2011-10-26 20:56

Story here. Excerpt:

'NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (Associated Press) — Four children were removed from what authorities described as a filthy Nebraska trailer home where a 3-year-old boy and his 5-year-old brother were kept in a wire dog kennel, police said Tuesday.

North Platte officers went to the home late Monday after receiving a call from someone asking that police check on the welfare of the children living there, police Lt. Rich Hoaglund said. When officers went inside, they were met with the stench of urine and found trash and animal feces throughout the home, Hoaglund said.

An officer soon found two boys, ages 3 and 5, in a 30-by-42-inch wire dog kennel.

"They had a small child's mattress in there, and that's where both kids were sleeping," Hoaglund said. "The gate on that door was wired shut."

The children's mother, 22-year-old Ashly Clark, told officers she put her boys in the kennel at night to keep them from climbing out of the trailer through a window, Hoaglund said.'

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Perhaps readers remember the "Welcome to the Doghouse" commercial put out by J.C. Penny, supposedly intended to get men to buy jewelry to keep their masters from punishing them (ahem, I mean keep their wives from withholding sex). That commercial was supposedly fanciful, but this case is not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twivg7GkYts

Many American women think of men as animals, as beasts of burden (fix this, run this errand, bring home the bacon, etc.)... so it should be no surprise that two young boys were kept locked in a doghouse. The mother thought nothing was the matter with it. Such an attitude towards men is, after all, widespread in the American media.

You say "but they were children," ... hmmm, yes, you're right, this case would not have even warranted a news story, let alone the involvement of the legal system if it was grown men who were kept in a doghouse. Men in marriages are financial slaves to their wives anyway, so what's the difference if they are kept in a doghouse or not?

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Thu, 2011-10-27 06:05