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PROUD PARENTS: IN THE NEWS
Meet Bryan and Tonya Ricks, the Colorado Springs couple that neglected their teenage son for 5 years, all the while he was suffering from a seizure disorder which caused him to have upwards of 12 seizures a day. When discovered by a “family friend”, it is said the boy was covered in urine and feces, could no longer speak and weighed just 37 pounds. If all this wasn’t enough, these disgusting Proud Parents had 5 other children. Keep reading for the full story..
Submitted by Fred
Courtesy of The Huffington Post
A Colorado Springs couple found in 2009 to have starved their teenage son until he weighed 37 pounds was sentenced Monday afternoon. Bryan and Tonya Ricks were each sentenced to 25 years in prison for child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury and failure to provide medical attention.
The Ricks were found to have left their son untreated with a seizure disorder for five years leading up to 2009. The boy suffered from as many as 12 seizures a day which doctors say, compounded by malnutrition, left him bedridden, unable to support his own body weight, and incapable of speech.
According to KKTV the boy was found by a family friend in his own urine and feces.
The Gazette reports the boy and his five sisters were removed from the home in late 2009. The Ricks had home-schooled their children but the children were unable to grip a pencil and did not know how to use a toothbrush.
Court documents state the Ricks’s home had “limited furniture [and] little to no bedding for the children … neither bathroom contained… toilet paper, hand towels… or anything else which would be used to clean up after showering/toileting.”
Defense attorneys had requested both Bryan and Tonya receive 10 year sentences. The maximum sentence would have been 32 years, reports Fox 21.
The children are in a foster home and will likely be adopted by the foster family. Reginald Short of the District Attorney’s office told KRDO, “I think ultimately what we can say is the children are in a better place at this point.”
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Steralize them both!
This is why the death sentence was created.
Both of the them need to put in front of a firing squad, anyone that abuses a child doesn’t have the right to a life period!
dont kill them just starve them down to 37 lbs in their own fecal and urine
First I am amazed that they were married, not just the “baby daddy”. Second, I agree with Angela, death to them. Third they are scum of the Earth.
Why a maximum of 32 year sentences? This is so beyond abuse as to be torture. How on God’s Green Earth that boy survived, I’ll never know. I only hope that he gets well, and his parents truly get whats coming to them.
And as to the obviously soon-to-come racist post, just don’t and STFU now.
This is digusting. Tie them both to beds and let them slowly starve to death. The electric chair would be to kind of an ending for these two.
So many couples are unable to have children. No matter their race, white/black/asian, abuse is abuse. I feel that we need to go back to the time of an eye for an eye. Maybe then people will learn to treat themselves and others with more respect. So glad those children are getting well. And a big thank you to the family friend who found that poor child!
i agree with the death penatly! the chances of these children leading normal lives is slim, they are going to have issues because of these people!!!
This is why we need stricter rules on birth control and parenting. You need a license to go fishing but not to be knocked up. If there was any sort of minimal control on this issue, they would have had their children taken from them before any of this could have happened.
Once upon a time, I knew a prison warden. People like these names are circulated before they make it to jail. After the 1st month they’ll be begging for death!
This seriously made me cry..they ruined their child’s life. People if you don’t want to have to worry about taking care of a child DON’T HAVE ONE!
It makes me sick that people like this exist. How could anyone be so cold as to do this to their own flesh and blood?
I hope those children find a safe and happy home where they feel loved.
People seriously need a licence to breed.
I agree with all of you.
and it’s not just a clever name…I would at least care for the kids.
I say chain them both up to a dog box a let them starve
Just life in prison. The inmates missing their children will take care of the rest…atleast that’s what I hear.
I agree they deserve the death penalty, because they have robbed this little boy of a healthy normal life…for the rest of his life this will affect him.
But you know what…death is too easy for them. I’m thinking they need to understand and FEEL what they did to him. They need to experience the same horrors.
However, since that will never happen, I’m hoping the “boys” and “girls” in the surrounding cells help educate these monsters. I’m also hoping the guards don’t see a thing…for the entire 25 years. Praying they don’t get out after half their sentence.
They were not home schooling their kids. Home schooled kids get a good education at home. These people weren’t schooling their kids at all.
A teenager weighing 37 lbs. wow. These creatures are worse than animals! I say throw them in a small cage and starve them to death.
The crazy thing is that drug smugglers routinely get harsher sentences than this.
Stupidity and abuse transcend culture and skin color. These two ought to be locked up for the rest of their lives.
How does a teenager even get close to weighing so little without anyone noticing it? I mean even if they got down to like 80 or 90 pounds wouldn’t anyone notice then?? Where there no aunts, cousins, uncles, etc.around? These people need to be treated the same way they did this poor human being. Death is too good and too damn easy. I dont care what race they are…CHILD ABUSE IS WRONG!!!!
P.S….DONT THEY HAVE PEOPLE WHO CHECK ON THESE “HOME SCHOOLED” KIDS?!?!?! This is one example why these kids need to be checked on and make sure they are not just victims of trash parents like these!!!
all of these parents that hurt and kill their children will get theres especially when the rest of the prison population finds out what they are in for most inmates dont take kindly too people who hurt children
I get the feeling half these stories are made up or exaggerated. A teenager weighing 30 something pounds? Yeah. He would be dead.
I take it you didn’t see the pictures or read the actual news story. Depending on the age you start to be abused as he was you stop growing taller. Then his fat disappeared, then his muscles and proteins turned to acid. So,yes, he weighed that little.
Kim: I agree! I don’t understand how parents can just choose to home school and not have anyone to answer to. It’s just assumed that anyone can teach children math, reading, writing, etc.
Obviously, for these idiots, the home schooling was a way for them to torture at least one of their children for years and not have to answer to anyone.
I have to wonder why they only got 25 years each…if the maximum was 32, they should have gotten that.
Missy: you’re an idiot.
firing squad pelese