The Children: Brownwood to Clarksfield Township

Eleven Children Found Caged in Ohio Home
Sep 12, 9:46 PM (ET)

CLARKSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) - Sheriff's deputies found 11 children locked in cages rigged with alarms Monday in a north Ohio home.
The children, ages 1 to 14, were in cages in the walls of the home in Clarksfield Township, about 50 miles west of Cleveland. They had no blankets or pillows, according to the Huron County Sheriff's Office.
The children were taken to Fisher-Titus Medical Center. No information on their conditions was available late Monday.
Sharon and Mike Gravelle are adoptive or foster parents for all 11 children, officials said.
The Gravelles do not have a listed telephone number.
Few additional details were available late Monday. Prosecutors were reviewing the case, but no charges had yet been filed.
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Police: Two children living in home minus water, electricity
Steve Nash
Brownwood Bulletin
page 3 Monday, September 12, 2005
A Brownwood police officer found two dirty children, covered with bug bites and living in a home without water or electricity, when he was dispatched to a home in the 300 block of Greenleaf Thursday evening for a welfare check.
Officer Aaron Taylor contacted Child Protective Services and was told a CPS investigation was already under way, and that a CPS official would be at the home the next day, Taylor's report states.
A man at the home told Taylor he is unemployed and no transportation for the children. The man who would not allow Taylor inside, told the officer the water and electricity had been off for two weeks, Taylor's report states.