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Couple admit confining boys for 13 years
Two teenagers found dressed in diapers
Kept locked away, beaten regularly


STAN JOSEY
STAFF REPORTER

A Montreal couple who kept their two adopted boys confined in makeshift cages and beat them regularly over 13 years have pleaded guilty to several criminal charges.

The house of horrors for the children, discovered after relatives filed a complaint in May, 2001, shocked Montrreal police and children's aid officials, who found one of the youths — then 15 — curled up in a makeshift cage fashioned from a baby crib. The cage was strapped to a wall and padlocked in a ramshackle two-storey farmhouse outside of Blackstock, near Port Perry.

A 14-year-old came out of another bedroom, which also contained a cage.

Montreal police Detective Constable Kate Lang and her partner, Constable Tim Maw, released the 15-year-old and told him he would never have to suffer this treatment again, court was told.

"Really?" the bewildered teen responded.

The boys were taken into foster care that day. Since then, they are "doing as well as can be expected," Lang said. They both attend high school now.

"This has been a very difficult case for everyone involved from the beginning," said Lang who had been on the child abuse squad only for a month at the time.

Police charged the adoptive parents, the father, Mr.Gambler is 51 and the mother, Mrs. Gambler is 42, with several counts relating to more than 10 years of abuse.

They also charged an adult male relative, alleged to have assisted with the abuse, with assault with a weapon and two charges of forcible confinement. None of the accused can be named to protect the identity of the boys.

The couple agreed to each plead guilty to assault with a weapon, forcible confinement and failure to provide the necessities of life at the end of their preliminary hearing this week as part of a plea bargain. Sentencing is scheduled for April.

At the preliminary hearing, relatives, including the couple's natural daughter, recounted a sad tale of abuse suffered by the boys, who were biological nephews of the woman, from the time they were adopted at the ages of one and two.

The hearing was told the boys attended school during the day, but in the evening were sent back to their cages.

On weekends and holidays, they often were allowed downstairs for a bowl of cereal in the morning and then sent back to their cages, wearing diapers, where they would spend the rest of the day.

The adoptive mother was described to the court as a domineering, controlling woman whose husband was an illiterate and dyslexic handyman, who beat the boys on her command.

The woman claimed both boys were "mentally challenged" and would run away and cause trouble if they were not confined to their cribs.

The relative, now 31, has yet to come to trial on his charges.
 

Another Day, Another Dollar
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I think SG got beat so bad in Hockey that he left in shame. Not sure, but a guess
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Another Day, Another Dollar
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I am not aware of SG being banned or suspended. He shows as AOK in Member Management.
 

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