Family accused of keeping woman as ‘slave’
Parents, three children are charged with kidnapping 19-year-old




Updated: 5:06 p.m. CT March 21, 2007
GREENSBURG, Pa. - A couple and their three teenage children held a woman
captive for six months, beating her with broom handles, boards and a
metal pipe and forcing her to do chores as they referred to her as their
"slave," police said Wednesday.

All five members of the family were arrested on kidnapping, terroristic
threat and related charges. They have not yet entered pleas but denied
wrongdoing.

The accuser, Emily Nicely, 19, went to live with the family voluntarily
last summer but said that she was forced to stay with them since
September.

rest of the story here:


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17726075/?GT1=9145

Its quite screwed up if the family actually did do it. I would like to
know why they felt the need to mention the man of the house was black,
and his wife and the girl were white. That really has no importance in
the case or the story.

thanks for keeping us up with the news ill tune in later

one thing. Yes they were wrong. Yes they were guilty opf slavery.
BUT, what has that to do with terrorism? Absolutely nothing. Terrorism
issomethign that happens on a grand scale not a minute scale such as
this.

Terrorism can be on the grand or minute scale. In this case, the alleged
abusers were able to keep the alleged victim in the house via terrorism.

Instilling fear to achieve a goal is not just on the scale we now view
it. It can be done by groups or individuals for political, religious, or
criminal reasons. I imagine a good psychologist could argue that we use
it in our children.

BIG SIGH!!! Looks like i gotta let that lil bimbo sister of mine and
that boyTOY ken outta the closet. they could run to
FOX and start squallin "my bigsisters a terrorist!!!!"...

daniel who said anything about terrorism, it does state terroristic
threat, and that can be directed at one or more individuals. One person
can be terrorized alone. In fact, Id bet almost anyone would be more
terrorized all alone in a sitution like that than if there were others
sharing the same grief and torture.

yeah daniel!! after all you should HEAR the whining that dorky lil
worthless ken doll does everytime i let him out of the box!!!!!


yeah...i know....ME BAD!!!!!

sorry fed, i fell intot he trap of the media there. i read what they
wrote and thought what they inferred. your right it said terroristic
not terrorism. Thank you for bringing my attention tho this. All the
more reason to bail ouit for a while until I stop reacting and can start
thinking again.

peace.