Jonathan James Died After Being Denied Water
There are some monsters there, awful people that I don't think deserve to breathe. Putting them away it's almost like a favor since they didn't give this poor boy the same chance. I hope they rot in jail!
DALLAS -A father and stepmother of twin boys were arrested Wednesday and charged with injury to a child after police said they denied one of the 10-year-old boys, Jonathan James, water over a period of five days as punishment. He died on July 25, MyFoxDallas-Fort Worth reports.
The boys grandmother, Sue Shotwell, says that his brother Joseph knew what was happening and wanted to help but was afraid he would be punished as well.
Police said Jonathan died because of dehydration and his father and stepmother, Michael James and Tina Alberson, were responsible.
Shotwell said Jonathan and his twin brother Joseph were spending the summer with their biological father because of a court ordered custody arrangement. But the boy's were reluctant to go, she said.
"I did tell him, 'I don't want you to feel guilty because there's nothing you could do.' And he says, 'I wish I had snuck him some water,'" she said.
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