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California Teen Tortured With Baseball Bat

By Steven Rodriguez

In one of the heinous cases of child abuse, a Tracy, California couple has been accused of kidnapping and torturing a teen-aged boy. Frightened, dirty, disoriented and clad only in boxer shorts, the 16-year-old stumbled into a local gym begging for help, the chain used to imprison him still locked to his ankle. The boy’s former guardian, a woman the boy called his “aunt,” was also charged. Caren Ramirez and the boy came to live at the northern California home of Michael Schumacher and Kelly Lau and their four young children about a year ago, Lau told authorities. In a television interview before her arrest, Lau said they struck the boy in the knees with a baseball bat to discipline him at the insistence of Ramirez. She also said Ramirez burned the boy with a hot aluminum bat and refused to let her feed him...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).