These three Philadelphians deserve to get "A-Holes of the Year"! After, I tell you what they've done, I think you'll agree. Well, it turns out, suspects Thomas Gregory, Linda Anne Weston, and Eddie Wright were arrested this past Sunday on multiple charges for holding four mentally disabled adults chained and shackled in the basement, or the 'dungeon', of their Philadelphia residence to steal their government distributed disability checks. That's right! How inhumane can people be?
Weston, who was said to be the brains behind this operation, had previously served eight years in prison for starving a 25-year-old man to death in the early 80s. This time around, she had the help of her boyfriend, Thomas Gregory, and a homeless man named Eddie Wright. A bond for the two men was set for $2.5 million each on Monday, while Weston is still waiting her arraignment. The three suspects are being charged with criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint, and false imprisonment with more charges likely to come.
The landlord of the building is who discovered the captives, which consisted of three men and one woman, who were shackled to a water heater this past Saturday. According to the landlord, he found the four mentally disabled captives locked behind a large steel door, and inside an old 15-by-15 bomb shelter. He went on to say that they had bedsores, and physically, they looked sickly thin from what he assumed was from malnourishment. There were buckets of urine in this bomb shelter with feces littered on the floor, along with a mattress and some bedsheets. The four captives were said to be in an age range between 29 to 41, but had the mental capacity of a bunch of 10-year-olds, which is why they were collecting the disability checks to begin with.
The victims were said to be from Texas, but according to the Philadelphia Police, they were believed to have been moved to West Palm Beach nearly a year ago before arriving in Philadelphia. What I don't get is that if this is true, were they driven from state-to-state? Or were they flown? And how can nobody have discovered this before? This act by Weston, Gregory, and Wright is just Pure Evil, and they deserve whatever is coming to them! Personally, if you want to really punish these three morons, or shall I say monsters? I would treat them, the way they treated their victims for however long they treated them this way, and then I would make sure the victim's families were fully compensated for every single penny that was stolen from them! So, what do you think? "A-Holes of the Year" or what?
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