Sicko's on the Run.

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MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida deputies searched on Friday for a fugitive couple accused of beating and chaining five children, pulling out their toenails with pliers and starving them to the point of emaciation.
Doctors alerted investigators two weeks ago when the couple's 16-year-old boy, who weighed just 60 pounds, was treated at a hospital for head and neck injuries.

The couple, John and Linda Dollar, cared for seven children aged 12 to 17 in their Citrus County home in west central Florida, investigators said.

A sheriff's spokeswoman told CNN she had seen photos of the children and, "They have very sweet faces, but when you look at their bodies, I mean, it looks like Auschwitz."

Florida's Department of Children and Families took custody of all the children, who said the Dollars beat and punished five of them for stealing food or messing up the house.

Two children the siblings described as "the favorites," told investigators they were not abused. The others said the couple shocked them with an electric device, hit their feet with hammers, bound them with chains and pulled off their toenails with pliers.

"It became clear to detectives, after speaking with the children, that they had been tortured," sheriff's deputies said in a news release.

They said the five children were forced to sleep in a closet, with a chime that sounded if they opened the door. Fourteen-year-old twin boys were the size of preschool children and weighed less than 40 pounds each.

The Dollars failed to appear at a child welfare hearing on Monday and were charged with aggravated child abuse. Investigators said they appeared to have packed up and moved out of their three-bedroom home in an upper middle-class development and may have fled in a motor home.

The children were not the Dollars' biological children, nor were they foster children, but investigators would not discuss their relation for privacy reasons.

Neighbors told a local newspaper that they had never seen the children, who apparently were schooled at home.

Why the **** were these people not locked up without bail?

[wombatt]

Turn them lose in one of those fenced in big game hunting ranches and charge $10.000.00 a piece for a permit.
Then give the proceeds to the kids.

[Pongo]

They have been caught.
We seem to get something like this every year or so..I assume that there are 100 we dont hear about for every one we do.

I dont think I would get tired of killing them for quite a while

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

My Dad (God rest his soul) told me that when he was a boy, the men in a town would take care of people like that (they'd be found tied to each other around a tree, horse whipped to a bloody mess, and covered in bruises and lacerations. Needless to say, repeat offenses were rare). When he was later superintendent of the jail in the nearby big city, he had to keep scum like this out of the general population (he said he was sorely tempted on many occaisions).