This guy gets my Loser of the Week - if not of the year - Award:
A man who allegedly put a 13-year-old girl in a dog kennel for days at a time, hit her, read her diary, and strip searched her, was charged this week with unreasonable restraint of a child.
Eric Bare, 42, of St. Paul, admitted to child protection workers that he did lock the teenager in the kennel on two different occasions, once for three consecutive days, and once for seven consecutive days. Bare said that he "fixed up the kennel nice" and that it was "a suitable temporary living arrangement."
Bare is not the girl's father, but she called him dad, according to charges. The girl's mother, Deborah Lee Cameron, was also charged.
"Unreasonable restraint of a child"? That's it?? There are probably harsher laws about keeping dogs in kennels. Appalling. If the kennel was so damn nice, why didn't he sleep in a few days? In fact, can we ask that any sentence he serve be naked, in that same kennel? Seems only fair.
The Farkers put it best: "Man, this guy would get kicked out of a trailer park for being ugly."
Update: Yes, there are always worse stories, unfortunately.
Posted by kswygert at February 10, 2005 01:36 PM