According to CNN Gregory Lacy and LaQuron Lacy were arrested and charged with various child abuse charges after a body was discovered on their front lawn.
This story would be hilarious if it wasn't for the seven adopted children who lived in the home and suffered severe abuse ranging from sexual assault to starvation. None of the children were over the age of 11-years-old and reported to the officers that they had been beaten with sticks and held in rooms without food. The 7-year-old reported being sexually abused and several of the other children witnessed the act take place on a bathroom floor.
How can a community not realize that an illegal strip club is operating in their own neighborhood or notice that children were being harmed? It seems that disconnection between neighbors has been steadily growing and everyone tends to mind their own business when they want to but not when they should. People probably knew more about who bought a new car than they did about an illegal strip club next door.
Growing up we knew almost everyone who lived in our subdivision. Neighbors shop at the same stores and our children more likely than not attend the same schools but the fellowship among neighbors seems to be at a steady decline. I am sure that not all neighbors are equally yoked however an effort to become acquainted seems reasonable. Who wouldn't want to know a little bit about the people who live near you?
Thankfully the children have been saved from this hellhole and may be granted some sort of normal childhood. It is highly probable if someone's body had not been found lying on the Lacy's front yard these babies would still be subjected to the abuse.
Do you know thy neighbor?
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