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December 6, 2010 in Idaho
Hayden man jailed on child cruelty charge
An 18-year old Hayden, Idaho, man was arrested for child cruelty Sunday after deputies say he placed a 25-pound bag on his stepdaughter to stop her from moving.
Zacharee J. Wright said the youngster was unable to sleep, so he placed her face down on a concrete floor with no pillows or blankets and put a bag of dried drink mix on her legs, according to a report from Kootenai County Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Edmunds. The girl’s exact age was unavailable but reports show she was born in 2009.
“Zacharee told me he placed this bag on her to keep her from being able to pull down glass jars and to keep her from moving so she would be able to sleep,” Edmunds wrote.
Wright lives in the basement of the home at 1106 E. Whispering Pines with his wife and the girl’s mother, Leann Wright.
A family member called police about 5:30 p.m. after discovering the girl whimpering in the basement storage room.
Wright told investigators he left the girl in the room for about 30 minutes and checked on her every 10 minutes.
The girl had red marks on her face and was dirty but not seriously injured, according to the report.
Wright remains in Kootenai County Jail on a felony charge of cruelty to children.
Human trafficking suspects released 
BT on December 06 at 1:18 p.m.
Here we go again, with our younger generation abusing children once again. I swear we need to put the iron fist down on justice for these young ones! Either that or place them in a compound exactly like China! They either learn their lesson, or die! Cruelty to children needs to be at the top of all the politicians list!! This country is out of control with young folks abusing helpless children!!! Throw the damn book at them!!!
MrNatural on December 06 at 1:31 p.m.
Damn!
Anyone out there still wonder why we desperately need Planned Parenthood and other Well Child and neonatal social programs. There are children raising children in our society without the wherewithal to do so. As a community we need to step up and seriously address this awful circumstance.
hawken on December 06 at 2:23 p.m.
Social, government agencies cannot cure stupidity….
Nevertheless, we taxpayers do,,, currently fund them,,,, on a large scale, for that very purpose.
So, how is it, Natural, that this idiot slipped through the cracks of our massive social programs?
Is it kind of like our failed public schools? Whom just need more and more, never ending, tax payer dollars?
Criminal justice is the much more effective avenue in this case. As long as they don’t shoot the young man to death.
MrNatural on December 06 at 2:34 p.m.
Well Hawken…I think your first misconception is “massive social programs”…Thanks to many years of antisocial initiatives and reduction of government sponsored programs (all the while the populace is steadily increasing) many programs have been eliminated. In the last year this region has seen critical cutbacks and elimination of child welfare programs…programs these children can ill afford to lose…
Now I don’t refute the fact that this kid is an idiot…and golly bob howdy there are loads of them out there and increasing daily…but the criminal justice system in this case will not cure his stupidity it will only make him a professional at it….
WTGorWTF on December 06 at 2:49 p.m.
You mean to tell me that all the cartoon profile pics on Facebook didn’t stop this from happening? WTF?
hawken on December 06 at 3:26 p.m.
Natural…. just as I thought… more tax payer money and larger, social, government, is your solution.
The Camelot, Utopian, liberal left, world view is a fantasy that is bankrupting this great nation….
Explain that to your grandchildren, and beyond, who will pay the bill for what you propose…. if you get what you want.
I am optimistic, that beginning in January, this will begin to change in a historical shift, back to reality. As hard as that will be for many.
As for me, I’ll stand in soup lines today, so that my grandchildren can have a taste of the American dream.
Apparently, the majority of American is willing to do the same.
Then, we have the liberal left.
MrNatural on December 06 at 3:57 p.m.
…and just what social program will be serving the soup?
…and what is the American dream you speak of? It’s not a healthy environment? It’s not free and universal health care? It’s not a living wage? It’s not a safety net for the poor, disabled or abused. It’s not a safe and healthy workplace and soon it may not be Medicare or social security….so describe to me the American dream without the above as you see it.
hawken on December 06 at 4:49 p.m.
Natural… maybe you haven’t noticed. We are broke and on the precipice of a national, economic, disaster like we have never seen.
The American dream is based upon “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Not national insolvency and unbearable debt loaded upon the back of our children, grandchildren and beyond.
1- “…free and universal health care?”… is a fantasy of Camelot and Utopia…. paid for by the productive in our society. Obama care is so absurdly expensive that in the first month of so, at least 111 companies have been granted a waiver. More to come.
2- “It’s not a living wage?” The unions have inflated wages and benefits, far beyond a “living wage.” Especially, government unions.
3- It’s not a safety net for the poor, disabled or abused… again, we passed that threshold decades ago. The safety net has become the “enabling net.”
4- It’s not a safe and healthy workplace… again, accomplished, decades ago….
5- Medicare or social security…. Never intended to be a full retirement account, or nationalized health care. Only a safety net…. see item #3 above.
The major difference between what you believe and what I believe this very simple.
You believe in an unlimited, socialist form of “cradle to grave” government. Of course, paid by those whom are productive, hard working Americans.
I believe in limited government with unlimited opportunity for all.
This is the ideological war that rages in American.
kamm on December 06 at 5:42 p.m.
OMG! @hawken, not everything is political! Man, take a step back; breathe for heaven’s sake! The election is over, focus on something else; you’re going to have a stroke!
This is Anthropology 101— A new alpha male will kill the previous
male’s progeny (children and/or animals) to make the female ready for his mating needs and keep his bloodline pure-come hell or highwater.
Women, NEVER have a new boyfriend watch a child from a previous boyfriend! Haven’t you seen the news??
lafleur10 on December 06 at 7:13 p.m.
Hawken, is there a single topic that you don’t turn into an attack on those 63 million Americans that didn’t agree with you two years ago (as opposed to half as many that voted a month ago)? Give it a rest. We get it, you are right and those that vote for dems are wrong. That you ignore that Reagan tripled the National Debt and Bush II doubled it again (because even a 5 year old can figure out that if you cut taxes but INCREASE spending, the deficit and debt are going to go up) is apparently irrelevant. That Bush expanded the Federal Government more than anyone since the New Deal, is forgotten. That we lost 3 million jobs under Bush, and another 5 in the 6 months after he left, prior to Obama passing a single budget, is forgotten. Repubs = good, Dems = bad, and facts be damned.
In fact, Obama has acted far more like a Repub these past two years is also irrelevant I guess. He dumped single payer immediately and basically passed the EXACT same law that Repubs proposed in 94 as a response to Hillary. He dumped his pledge to not hire lobbyists and so we got a watered down Wall Street reform bill. He didn’t stop the idiotic credit default swap scheme, and he dumped his pledge to end the Bush tax cut for the wealthy. What the hell do you have to complain about? He has been a better President for Repubs than Bush. At least he can read and write.
This story on the other hand is about a person that is obviously incapable of raising a child, and that should never be allowed around that child again. I bet the mom takes him back in less than a month. Pathetic what happens when kids have kids.
hawken on December 06 at 9:58 p.m.
lafleur10
You ask….
“Hawken, is there a single topic that you don’t turn into an attack on those 63 million Americans that didn’t agree with you two years ago…”
Answer: Probably not. It depends upon the posts or the content of the article, that precede me here. If it’s a far left liberal, yes, I will probably disagree. Not always. But, I always offer corroboration for my opposition.
mikeln on December 07 at 8:43 a.m.
Could it be that all the money is hidden in the wealthys overseas bank accounts. The rich will always take the ball and go home when asked to play fair.