Sentenced: A Horrifically Abused 10yo Was Found Living In A Small Space Between A Dresser & A Wall

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A 10-year-old child was so severely abused and neglected that he weighed the same as a toddler. Now, the woman responsible will serve 20 years in prison.

Latasha Leonard, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of felony child abuse. Judge Steve Ratcliff sentenced Leonard to 30 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections with 10 suspended and five years' probation. Leonard was also given a no-contact order, forbidding her from contacting the victim.

In 2017, Madison County Child Protective Services received a complaint about possible neglect. When law enforcement initially attempted to investigate, Leonard denied the child's existence.

Upon a further investigation, a malnourished 10-year-old child was found in Leonard's home, living in a "small space between a dresser and a wall" in the home "almost 24 hours a day."

According to the release, the child was "frequently tied up, beaten and denied food by Leonard." He was 3 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 41 pounds — the size of an average 3-to 4-year-old child — upon admittance to the hospital. The child also had an untreated broken femur bone that had healed with no apparent medical intervention, the release said.

He was placed in a therapeutic foster home and has received care from various practices at Univeristy of Mississippi Medical Center, including getting eyeglasses, hearing aids, growth stimulants, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. He also started pre-K after coming into CPS custody, at the age of 11, and has since learned to read and write and is now getting ready to enter the seventh grade, the release stated.

'Most horrible cases of child abuse I have ever seen': Madison Co. woman gets 30 years

A 10-year-old child was so severely abused and neglected he weighed the same as a toddler, authorities said.

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A 10-year-old child was so severely abused and neglected that he weighed the same as a toddler

And this fatass never missed a meal or a snack.

 

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Shitbags had 8 kids, that we know of.

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Additional investigation revealed that the child had never been enrolled in school, had not received any medical care or immunizations since he was eighteen months old, and was made to stay in a small space between a dresser and the wall in the family’s home almost twenty-four hours a day.

He was frequently tied up, beaten, and denied food by Leonard. He was not allowed to go outside and play or eat dinner with the rest of the family. Leonard even attempted to deny his existence to law enforcement at the beginning of the investigation.

“Taking children from the home is something we do when the children are in danger, not just because there’s a problem,” said Brandon; this is a case where removal had to take place.

The child was placed in a therapeutic foster home and has received care from various practices at UMC including getting eyeglasses, hearing aids, growth stimulants, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. He also started pre-K after coming into CPS custody, at the age of 11, and has since learned to read and write and is now getting ready to enter the seventh grade.

The other children did not show signs of abuse when they found. Brandon said this is a common theme.

“There are often times, one child can bare the runt of a mother and father’s frustration and for some reason they can treat four children perfectly well, feed them well, take them to school. [But] one child, for whatever reason, is the one that they take out their anger or whatever upon, and that child gets abused," said Brandon.
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‘She basically forced this child to live in a cell his entire life': Canton mother receives 30 year sentence for felony child abuse

Her 10-year-old son was made to stay in a small space between a dresser and the wall in the family’s home almost twenty-four hours a day.

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Anthony Holiday, the child’s father, pleaded guilty to condoning the abuse back in 2017 and received a max sentence of 5 years.

‘She basically forced this child to live in a cell his entire life': Canton mother receives 30 year sentence for felony child abuse

Her 10-year-old son was made to stay in a small space between a dresser and the wall in the family’s home almost twenty-four hours a day.

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He will be out soon enough to start impregnating future abusive mothers.


I hope that this boy is able to thrive and goes on to have a happy and successful life.

I also hope their are no family members that fill this boy with the bullshit that is your mama and you have to still love her.

The jaded me always has a thought in my head when I read about adult children abusing their elderly parents - Were they abused and now treating the parent the same way they were treated.

 

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‘She basically forced this child to live in a cell his entire life': Canton mother receives 30 year sentence for felony child abuse

Her 10-year-old son was made to stay in a small space between a dresser and the wall in the family’s home almost twenty-four hours a day.

www.wlbt.com

He will be out soon enough to start impregnating future abusive mothers.


I hope that this boy is able to thrive and goes on to have a happy and successful life.

I also hope their are no family members that fill this boy with the bullshit that is your mama and you have to still love her.

The jaded me always has a thought in my head when I read about adult children abusing their elderly parents - Were they abused and now treating the parent the same way they were treated.

Mother was at best passive aggressive, at worst apathetic. My father was a brutal prick who took his personal frustrations out on my siblings and I. The best moment in my life was my parents reaching out for aid and me replying, "Maybe should've saved all that money you blew on yourselves while your kids never saw doctors, were constantly uprooted, and were basically thrown out at 18." I learned to be a better parent because of them so there's that.