In Memoriam

Marcus Fiesel, 3 years old.

This little kid was put into a foster family, a family supposedly safer than his biological one. Unfortunately for him, the screening process let this couple of subhumans enter the foster care system and he was assigned to them.

Apparently, in order to attend a two-day family reunion to which they did not, for whatever reason, want to bring the little kid, they decided to tie him up with tape and put him in a closet until their return.

When they came back, however, Marcus was dead. They tried to cover up their actions for a week or so, but eventually they were caught, arrested and jailed. They will now face the justice system for what I see as a horrific crime that goes beyond my comprehension abilities.

How could they do this to an innocent, harmless 3 year-old kid, whom they were supposed to protect and nurture? How could they think that it was "ok" to tie him up and leave him in a closet? How could they think that he would be fine during their absence?

Some crimes are just unexplainable and unforgivable to me. This is one of them. I hope they serve the maximum sentence possible and then get sued by the parents of the child for everything they have.

You know what I think? They should be tied up and locked in a closet for a couple of days, just to show them what they put that kid through. If they survive, then they'll start serving their sentence.

Just imagine the horrible last hours he spent on this planet. And now he's gone. Because of their stupidity and carelessness.

From CNN:

The foster parents of a disabled 3-year-old boy wrapped him like a cocoon and left him for two days in a closet, where he died while they attended a family reunion, a prosecutor said.

The couple made several attempts to burn Marcus Fiesel's body and concocted an elaborate sham to cover up the boy's death, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said Tuesday.

"Marcus was wrapped in a blanket and wrapped in tape with his arms behind him -- and this was not the first time," Deters said in announcing additional indictments against Liz and David Carroll Jr.
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Deters said the Carrolls left Marcus in the closet on August 4 when they went to a family reunion in Kentucky, and the boy was dead when they returned two days later.

A week later, Liz Carroll claimed Marcus wandered away from her at a suburban park, authorities said. Hundreds of volunteers joined authorities in the search for several days.

Authorities called off the official search on August 19. Liz Carroll pleaded for help finding Marcus at a news conference August 22 -- about the same time she and her husband were disposing of his body in a remote area of Brown County, Deters said.

"They went back repeatedly to burn his body -- two or three times," Deters said.

Authorities believe they have found the place where the body was burned, and they have brought back bags of evidence from the scene, Deters said.

He said the material will undergo DNA testing.