This couple locked their kids in the basement

[Music] hey guys what's up and welcome back to my channel so today's case is pretty angering I'm telling you that right now I know that I tell you that pretty often but you know cases to do with children really do enrage me to the highest possible degree before we get into that I did want to thank today's sponsor which is Skillshare Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people explore new skills develop existing interests and get lost in creativity Skillshare offers membership with meaning connect with the support of fellow creatives and enter a community of encouragement communication and inspiration so whether you're looking to fend off boredom focus on self-care through creativity or join a similarly creative community Skillshare is the place to keep you learning of course I've enjoyed is titled the writer's toolkit six steps to a successful writing habit by Simon van boy I specifically chose this course because I 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following the morbid discovery according to officials authorities first found another one of the couple's children who had allegedly been abandoned and didn't know where his family was wvlt TV reported the minor detailed the alleged abusive conditions he lived in and told investigators his parents had buried a sibling in the home backyard let's stop here second I know this is an annoying question and I know this is a question I ask often but truly truly honestly why does the solution to all these [ __ ] up people seem to be oh yeah let's just kill someone I just wonder is there no point where you think hey I mean I don't know what they're thinking but is there no point where there's no thought of saying should we put them up for adoption and do we have a family member they can stay with just anything other than going to the extreme of murdering especially here because it was torturous too because they were starving and confining the child to the basement so the child didn't even have a quality of life to speak of so I just don't understand why it has to be zero to a hundred like this with these people it just stuns me and granted some of these people might enjoy torturing the children so I don't know if that's the case here they enjoy seeing a child lose their will to live and die investigators later uncovered the skeletal remains during a three-day investigation and excavation of the family's property the victim a girl had been buried along farm animals according to the Knoxville television station her body was allegedly kept in a cardboard box prior to her makeshift burial I have to say there's something of particularly enraging to me that she was buried alongside farm animals I just find something so disturbing in the way that of course I'm not happy the farm animals are dead but the idea that she's just put along with them and doesn't have her own actual grave it just makes me wonder how much they valued her life which I mean is already questionable obviously because of how they treated her but it seems like such a last final way to kind of spit in someone's face to be like oh yeah let's just put you alongside the animals because that's really what you were to us just an animal not like our daughter just an animal Michael Gray allegedly confessed to burying the roughly 10 year old child under a pole barn at the family's home approximately three years ago in 2017 the couple allegedly punished their daughter for stealing food by locking her in the basement and feeding her only bread and water after a few months of imprisonment she died if your child is stealing food I'm just wondering is it possible that they're stealing the food because you're not feeding them enough I'm just wondering if that was ever a conversation hat or immediately it was like oh this child needs to be punished there's nothing that actually we can maybe learn from this let's just give them bread and water that is truly [ __ ] cruel I don't really think that needs to be said Knox County forensic experts are now examining the skeletal remains anthropologists from the University of Tennessee are also assisting in the ongoing investigation local media outlets reported three other children including a teen boy who allegedly was confined to the basement for nearly half a decade were also removed from the home by state authorities the children were isolated appeared to have been stunted in growth and didn't attend school according to an arrest warrant obtained by the Knoxville News Sentinel two of the children appeared to have no formal education the warrant said they were in fact amazed by what a refrigerator does when they observed one in their foster home man this makes me so [ __ ] I'm angry already but this part makes me really sad for them to have children in this day and age be shocked by what a refrigerator does like I mean obviously there's a bigger problem but the refrigerator example to me really just points out and underlines how little of normal life these children experience that's truly tragic I mean aside from being isolated which in and of itself like children need to have friends they need to be around people you know like that in and of itself isolation I think mentally must be terribly taxing and then on top of that the stunted growth doesn't surprise me because they probably were being fed next to nothing and then not attending school is like the smallest of the problems out of everything but nonetheless it's just it's just sad that they didn't experience you know what a child should see is normal everyday life like the refrigerator school friends like these are all things that children should have without a question so the fact that they had none of it the Tennessee couple has been charged with two counts of aggravated kidnapping two counts of aggravated child abuse three counts of aggravated child neglect and a single charge abuse of a corpse prosecutors said in a statement on Monday Michael Grace senior and Shirley gray were arraigned on Tuesday according to Knoxville News Sentinel during the couple's court appearance a judge described in troubling detail the unsanitary conditions the children allegedly lived in the house was filled with urine smell feces throughout the house partially flooded basement with a hamster cage and guinea pig and the animal feces it had overflowed out of the cage on a bed a County Judge stated the couple also allegedly locked their kids in a cramped wired dog cage the Knoxville News Sentinel reported prosecutors said they expected the couple will likely face further charges there are still more forensic evidence to be analyzed by the investigators and forensics experts which will still need to be reviewed by the prosecutors district attorney general Russell Johnson said in a statement this week Russel added that investigators had been working around the clock on the child abuse case the family who is originally from Mississippi have lived at the house since 2016 the Knoxville News Sentinel reported frankly I feel like these individuals need to go away for a long time and that's not only like my anger and rage and emotion speaking but the fact that they have shown a pattern of continuing to abuse and mistreat over and over again is really what's concerning because it shows that they haven't changed at all there's been no progress I don't know how much people like that can truly progress but I do think they need also to be locked up along with some kind of therapy because it's not obviously normal for parents to be this detached from their own children treating them like animals and basically just torturing them I don't understand how this even went on as long as it did also because I wonder if the neighbors didn't see anything you know like imagine seeing a house and you know that children live there but you never see them leaving or you never see any proof that the child is even alive I'm not blaming the neighbors but I wonder how the people around you know what they saw and if they even have you know something to add to that but in the end I just think they need to get I mean even if they just got 10 years they're already in their 60s so probably they wouldn't be as dangerous anymore when they got out but nonetheless there are so many charges I just I just hope they don't get a slap on the wrist here that's truly what concerns me the most because cases like this really need to be obviously taken seriously but I feel like a lot of the time something ends up slipping through the cracks and people get away with just a few years or not really much of consequence considering everything they did anyways guys you can let me know what you think in the comments in terms of how long they should be in jail what you think their problem are they getting off on this cruelty are they just neglectful like what what do you think thank you guys so much for watching thank you to my patrons as always and I'll catch you guys next time 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Published: Fri Jun 05 2020