Dr. Phil

Kudos go out to the Dr. Phil Show who brought to light the incident that ended in PA, but occurred at various places in OUR COUNTRY.  The show discussed the event of adults with developmental disabilities that were held prisoner in a basement.  From this imprisonment children were produced and the belief is the woman who allegedly was the ring leader was looking to get the social security checks of these children, along with collecting the checks from the adults.  The adults are said to have had the cognitive understanding of a ten-year-old.  Yet, no one else is talking about this and I question why.  Is it because you feel it does not effect you?  It is because it is not a trendy topic?  Is it because no one told you this was not the current fad to jump onto?  These people were held prisoners!  They were chained and starved!  They were forced to have intercourse and bare children!  It wasn't just days or weeks, this was YEARS!  People need to get over their fear of the disabled and realize that yes, they are people too.  And just like other people they feel hurt and they can suffer.