From: cad3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CHERYL ANN DOUGHERTY)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: AMC: TAN: those Schoo folks (was AMC: Scott)
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:17:40 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <F9F!X9S#3@linac.fnal.gov>, lewis@linac.fnal.gov (June Cummins Lewis)
 writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.185153.20787@cbfsb.cb.att.com> van@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (val
erie.thompson) writes:
>>
>>Well, I don't see a summary yet of what the Schoos did, so here it goes.
>>They decided to on a vacation to Mexico for Christmas, but didn't want to
>>bring their kids.  They apparently didn't want to burden any friends or
>>relatives with a 9 yo and a 4 yo, so, they left written instructions, and
>
>Hi, guys.  Since this happened just a few miles from me, I can provide
>a bit more info.  Apparently, the grandmother of the two children
>offered to babysit the kids while the parents were away, and the
>mother said something cryptic, like "it's taken care of."  They are
>real sickos.  They left instructions for the kids to make cereal for
>breakfast, and then enough food for one other meal a day.
    I saw part of Oprah's show on the incident yesterday.  Apparently Mrs.
Schoo has an 18 year old son from a former marriage.  According to his cousin,
this son was also left alone from the time he was an infant.  Mrs. Schoo gave
up her parental rights when the son was around 8 and stated that having a baby
had been a mistake.

They didn't give the kids the number of the place they were staying in Acapulco,
>and they didn't tell any neighbors that they were leaving.  They have
>left the kids alone before.
    They didn't even know where they were going to stay.  According to
    reporters, they booked a cut-rate flight in November and drove into the
    hills outside Acapaulco and stayed in a $30/night hotel room.  The day
    that the story broke they checked out and moved to another hotel higher up
    in the surrounding hills.

The police investigated the house and
>found evidence that the parents beat the children (I think they found
>a special hanger rigged for beatings).
    They also found that the locks on the doors had been changed so the
    children could be locked in their rooms.  There was even a rigging so the
    locked doors could also be roped shut.
>>then, left their kids alone in the house for 9 days!  Some water splashed
>>into a heating vent (I think) and set off the fire alarm, and they went
>>running outside - that's how the story got out.  There's a book called
>
>They called 911 (at least they knew had to do that) and went to a
>neighboring house.
>
>The children are now in foster care.  As long as they are not sent
>back to the Schoos, I really don't care what happens to those sick
>people.  But DCFS is so bad around here, I wouldn't be surprised if
>they put the kids back with the parents.

    I can't wait for the lawyer to make that statement he has been alluding
    to.  I can't imagine what story he thinks would change the public's mind.
>
>June
>
>--
>"Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their
>feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order
>to avoid talking about baseball."
>                       --Deborah Tannen, author of _You Just Don't Understand_
>
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