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Update!


Was talking tonight with someone who has been in contact with the Gravelle's,
and has gotten a better understanding of the situation then the media has.

This person has been to the home quite often, and was dispelling a lot of the rumors for us.


Yes, the beds have been "caged" in, but their is a reason.

The kids are all special need, all as a result of being born to parents who were on drugs, or alcoholics, some of them being autistic, and even one of them having aids.

I won't go into all the things these kids have done, being destructive to themselves and their brothers and sisters, but it's safe to say the parents have taken on issues they weren't warned about before they adopted some of these kids, but they love them nonetheless, and have done the best they can.

The beds were being destroyed by the kids, so they built in bunk beds. Not cages, beds. They have doors with alarms so that in the middle of the night, when they get up, the parents can be warned. This was a suggestion to them by their psychiatrist, because the parents were having to sleep at the steps to keep an eye on any night activity.

A social worker, or case worker, or whatever you want to call it, would visit the house once, sometimes two times a week. This person who knew them, who knew the family, was gone on vacation over seas when all this happened, so that there was nobody to set things right.

The kids aren't locked up. They are happy. They are well fed, well clothed, and despite reports, they do have bedding. On Friday, when the kids were taken away, the reason there wasn't bedding on the beds... get this, was because it was being washed!

There is a reason that is suspected here, and I hazard to say this.
It's beginning to look like the neighbors aren't all that happy with having black kids in the neighborhood. If that's the issue, they need to get over it!