Why should this pair be protected.....
Blake Ward and Sharon Ward
Shellay WardAt the beginning of the year 2007, Shellay Ward was, according to a social worker, looking quite chubby and happy, even if the girl tended to be locked in her room most of the time, standing at her bedroom window while naked and staring out at a world she would never fully experience.
As the year progressed, however, Blake Ward and Sharon Ward, Shellay Ward’s parents, for whatever reason, decided to stop feeding their 7-year-old autistic daughter.
Deprived of food, Shellay began to shrink.
Now, normally, a shrinking child would be noticed by someone. Anyone with day-to-day contact with the girl would realize that something was wrong with her. A teacher, a doctor, a friend, a neighbor.
Anyone.
Unfortunately, Shellay lived her life without any of those.
Shellay never went to school, despite the fact that the local government knew she hadn’t been enrolled, and despite the fact that even autistic children are required by law to attend school. Shellay’s older sisters, who are 13 and 15, hadn’t been to school since 2005.
Shellay never went to a doctor.
Shellay never made friends because she never came outside. Really, the family didn’t ever come outside. In fact, the only time a neighbor remembers even seeing Sharon Ward in the five or so years that they lived there was one time that she saw her at the mailbox.
Nobody was ever invited into the Ward home, probably because the conditions were unsuitable for anything cleaner than a cockroach. The smell of urine wafted throughout the house from Shellay’s bedroom, which was kept locked. Charming piles of feces could also be seen lying on her bedroom floor.
The rest of the house wasn’t much better, with enough trash and garbage strewn about that in places it was knee-deep.
It was in that environment that Shellay Ward was starved to death over a period of several months, slowly wasting away, her body disappearing.
The neighbors have stated that they remember a few times when Shellay could be heard crying for her parents. They didn’t realize that she was crying for food.
It’s hard to imagine the pain that Shellay Ward must have been feeling in her last few days.
Oh, I suppose if you’ve grown up starving in a third-world country, you might have some kind of notion of what she went through – but for the average person living in one of the more developed countries, like Australia, you’d probably never go as hungry as Shellay Ward did.
On the third of November, 2007, Sharon Ward went to her daughter’s room and found Shellay unconscious and unresponsive. Sharon immediately began to try to resuscitate her daughter.
She did this for several hours. Somehow, she forgot to call emergency services, the police, an ambulance, Lassie, or her husband.
Blake WardBlake Ward woke up that Saturday morning and asked his other daughters where Sharon was. After being told Sharon was in Shellay’s bedroom, he wandered on in there and saw his wife desperately trying to resuscitate the girl.
Upon seeing that, Blake walked back into the living room and sat down. His wife followed him.
This is the conversation that they had, according to Blake:
I said: ‘What’s wrong, it’s not Shellay is it?’.
I knew by the look and I said: ‘She’s not dead is she?’
I said: ‘What’s wrong with you, you’re kidding’?
Sharon just said: ‘My princess is dead so what is the use of me living’.
Wow. Just…wow.
Emergency services were finally called, but they were too late to do anything but weigh Shellay.
She weighed just 20 pounds. In case you’ve been living under a rock, or possibly had a sizable portion of your brain removed, seven-year-old girls should not weigh 20 pounds.
Blake Ward has vehemently denied that he or his wife Sharon denied Shellay food, and has asked for his children to be given back to him.
He has stated to reporters that he didn’t know what could have killed his daughter.
Starvation, we didn’t starve her, she was born small, she was a tiny kid.
When he was told that Shelley weighed just 20 pounds, Blake Ward said:
I don’t know how this can be, she’d eat like anything.
Hell for you sir.
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