Dad Put Kids in a Cage Because He Couldn’t Find a Baby Sitter



Ricardo Gonzalez had to bring his two small children to work every day because he can’t find a baby sitter. That in itself isn’t bad, but Gonzalez went one step further: he locked his kids in a cage while he works!

Whenever Ricardo Gonzalez went to a job site in his pickup truck, he never let his small children out of his sight. So protective was the 35-year-old south suburban man, he kept his daughters in a makeshift cage inside the truck, officials say.

One of the girls told an investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services that her father locks them up because "he does a very dangerous job," according to state records reviewed by the Tribune. "My dad tightens both of us with his belt by my leg and my sister was [on] the other side of the cage tight with another belt."

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32 comments to "Dad Put Kids in a Cage Because He Couldn’t Find a Baby Sitter"

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    I’m going to start the debate on Death sentencing for child abusers.

    Over protective my ass. Just a dick that needs to be shot.

  • Sweet Violet
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Obviously Tim has never been an hourly wage earner (ya don’t work, ya don’t get paid) who couldn’t find someone to watch rhe children.

    What would you have him do, Tim? Stay home and earn no money to buy food and pay rent? Bring them to work and allow them to roam around unsupervised in a dangerous environment? Go on welfare?

    Walk in his moccasins for a while before you judge.

  • Rainbow
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    I can understand that Violet, but what he did was insane.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Violet get a grip.
    I’ve been an hourly wage worker most my life.
    Locking and tying your kids into a cage is not an alternative and your argument is asinine.

    You actually sound as if you condone this shit. Blow me and get a sitter.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    BTW Violet, If I were the tennant in question on your crap of a blog, yes all blogs serve for an outlet for people who who otherwise be ignored, had the right to stop paying.
    You showed your true worth with an argument that what that father did was OK.
    Glad you left America with your self grandizing attitude. Bye Bye dip

  • CheeseDuck
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    Death sentence? That’s a little extreme isn’t it?

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    Is it extreme that the rise in child deaths due to leaving your kid in a car has tripled?

  • Thomas
    July 4th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Screw it, lets just execute everyone that does anything to anyone. There are better options, people. Take his kids away from him. If he’s unable to properly care for his kids, they become the burden of the state. No reason to go killing anyone over bad parenting. Can you really sit there with a straight face and tell me that by killing him, you’re doing the right thing? That somehow, you’re the one who knows best, and can live with the decision to kill a man for misdemeanor child endangerment.

    I agree he should have done a better job caring for his kids. He and his wife could have worked out work schedules where one of them would be with the kids at home everyday. Hell, when my parents needed a babysitter, they paid one of the older neighborhood kids 10 bucks to watch us. And look how well I turned out. ;)

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    Read the entire article again. He didn’t have a job. He was a glorified can collector. Riding around town looking for scrap to sell at the recycler. And, this wasn’t the first time one of the parents had been dealt with by child services. You ass wipes who just fire off the hip amaze me, and yes, living in florida where several children die a year from ass holes who leave their kids in the car, i can say I know what’s right.
    You idiotically or knowingly abuse your child, you should be abused yourself.

  • Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    Tim has issues.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    I’m not the one with a fake name telling others that you can’t get a password. Friggin child

  • "A.J."
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    I hate greasy, hairy italians.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Then stop sleeping with your sister.

  • "A.J."
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    That doesn’t make sense, I’m not even italian! Although i did sleep with an italian girl once, I’m preeety sure she wasn’t my sister. It was cozy snuggling up to that fuzzy bosom.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    I’m happy for you AJ, it’s just too bad yer a stereotyping racist.

  • Thomas
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    password’s right, Tim does have issues. It’s like he’s just reloading the page over and over in order to argue every single comment. I wish I had no life.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    No actually i come back from time to time to see the next idiotic statement like yours Thomas

  • The Slapster
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    I can’t be the only one reading this, thinking “Shouldn’t ALL children be kept in cages” am I? You just can’t trust ‘em to run around in public all willy-nilly. And don’t even get me started on the hygiene issues!

  • Aar000n
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Tim, calm the fuck down

  • Lea
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Aaaaand back to the topic at hand,

    What is wrong with this dude?? There were alternatives, he wasn’t looking for them hard enough.
    And did anyone else think that article was rather poorly written?

  • ted
    July 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    I’ll agree with Tim that “A.J.” is a stereotyping racist. It’s a shame too, because he made a non-stereotypical, non-racist comment once that I agreed with.

    Most articles are poorly written, Lea. It’s a sign of the times.

  • Greengirl
    July 4th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    I agree with Lea.

    I am rather shocked that the mother is even being considered. I feel bad for the kids.

  • Jones
    July 4th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    My parents kept me in an the box their old Sears refrigerator came in. I thought everybodys parent did that,,scratches head.

  • Greengirl
    July 4th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    Jones,
    was it a skinner box?

  • "A.J."
    July 5th, 2008 at 12:51 am

    Oh, I will rephrase that.

    I dislike Italians.

    ..and no need to be redundant.

  • earl
    July 5th, 2008 at 1:50 am

    Did you ever put a kid in a crib or a playpen? Same damned thing. So shut up you hypocrites and busy bodies.

  • alice
    July 5th, 2008 at 4:04 am

    Jones- me too.
    I loved it.
    And now I’m 20, I wish I still had a big box to sit in and make into a boat/rocket/car/hospital etc.

  • Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    July 5th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    A crib or playpen is not the same thing as keeping a child in a cage in your car (although earl’s parents must’ve used a special playpen with a Plexiglas top and no ventilation, since he thinks they’re the same thing). Kids have died from being left in cars in the summertime.

  • Liapey
    July 5th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Cage =/= play pen, mmmkay?

  • sw
    July 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    hey alex, wanna ban tim? not adding anything positive to this site.

  • fireflicker
    July 7th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    Holly Crap, this Ricardo is Retardo. This is serious, those children are going to end up so messed up. They should be taken from these parents care (if you can call it care) thank goodness this was realized before if escalated.

  • DOJ
    July 7th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    i hope the belts were seat belts

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Ricardo Gonzalez had to bring his two small children to work every day because he can’t find a baby sitter. That in itself isn’t bad, but Gonzalez went one step further: he locked his kids in a cage while he works!

Whenever Ricardo Gonzalez went to a job site in his pickup truck, he never let his small children out of his sight. So protective was the 35-year-old south suburban man, he kept his daughters in a makeshift cage inside the truck, officials say.

One of the girls told an investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services that her father locks them up because "he does a very dangerous job," according to state records reviewed by the Tribune. "My dad tightens both of us with his belt by my leg and my sister was [on] the other side of the cage tight with another belt."

The Chicago Tribune has the story: Link (with video) - Thanks Claire!


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32 comments to "Dad Put Kids in a Cage Because He Couldn’t Find a Baby Sitter"

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    I’m going to start the debate on Death sentencing for child abusers.

    Over protective my ass. Just a dick that needs to be shot.

  • Sweet Violet
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Obviously Tim has never been an hourly wage earner (ya don’t work, ya don’t get paid) who couldn’t find someone to watch rhe children.

    What would you have him do, Tim? Stay home and earn no money to buy food and pay rent? Bring them to work and allow them to roam around unsupervised in a dangerous environment? Go on welfare?

    Walk in his moccasins for a while before you judge.

  • Rainbow
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    I can understand that Violet, but what he did was insane.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Violet get a grip.
    I’ve been an hourly wage worker most my life.
    Locking and tying your kids into a cage is not an alternative and your argument is asinine.

    You actually sound as if you condone this shit. Blow me and get a sitter.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    BTW Violet, If I were the tennant in question on your crap of a blog, yes all blogs serve for an outlet for people who who otherwise be ignored, had the right to stop paying.
    You showed your true worth with an argument that what that father did was OK.
    Glad you left America with your self grandizing attitude. Bye Bye dip

  • CheeseDuck
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    Death sentence? That’s a little extreme isn’t it?

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    Is it extreme that the rise in child deaths due to leaving your kid in a car has tripled?

  • Thomas
    July 4th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Screw it, lets just execute everyone that does anything to anyone. There are better options, people. Take his kids away from him. If he’s unable to properly care for his kids, they become the burden of the state. No reason to go killing anyone over bad parenting. Can you really sit there with a straight face and tell me that by killing him, you’re doing the right thing? That somehow, you’re the one who knows best, and can live with the decision to kill a man for misdemeanor child endangerment.

    I agree he should have done a better job caring for his kids. He and his wife could have worked out work schedules where one of them would be with the kids at home everyday. Hell, when my parents needed a babysitter, they paid one of the older neighborhood kids 10 bucks to watch us. And look how well I turned out. ;)

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    Read the entire article again. He didn’t have a job. He was a glorified can collector. Riding around town looking for scrap to sell at the recycler. And, this wasn’t the first time one of the parents had been dealt with by child services. You ass wipes who just fire off the hip amaze me, and yes, living in florida where several children die a year from ass holes who leave their kids in the car, i can say I know what’s right.
    You idiotically or knowingly abuse your child, you should be abused yourself.

  • Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    Tim has issues.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    I’m not the one with a fake name telling others that you can’t get a password. Friggin child

  • "A.J."
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    I hate greasy, hairy italians.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Then stop sleeping with your sister.

  • "A.J."
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    That doesn’t make sense, I’m not even italian! Although i did sleep with an italian girl once, I’m preeety sure she wasn’t my sister. It was cozy snuggling up to that fuzzy bosom.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    I’m happy for you AJ, it’s just too bad yer a stereotyping racist.

  • Thomas
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    password’s right, Tim does have issues. It’s like he’s just reloading the page over and over in order to argue every single comment. I wish I had no life.

  • Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    No actually i come back from time to time to see the next idiotic statement like yours Thomas

  • The Slapster
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    I can’t be the only one reading this, thinking “Shouldn’t ALL children be kept in cages” am I? You just can’t trust ‘em to run around in public all willy-nilly. And don’t even get me started on the hygiene issues!

  • Aar000n
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Tim, calm the fuck down

  • Lea
    July 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Aaaaand back to the topic at hand,

    What is wrong with this dude?? There were alternatives, he wasn’t looking for them hard enough.
    And did anyone else think that article was rather poorly written?

  • ted
    July 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    I’ll agree with Tim that “A.J.” is a stereotyping racist. It’s a shame too, because he made a non-stereotypical, non-racist comment once that I agreed with.

    Most articles are poorly written, Lea. It’s a sign of the times.

  • Greengirl
    July 4th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    I agree with Lea.

    I am rather shocked that the mother is even being considered. I feel bad for the kids.

  • Jones
    July 4th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    My parents kept me in an the box their old Sears refrigerator came in. I thought everybodys parent did that,,scratches head.

  • Greengirl
    July 4th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    Jones,
    was it a skinner box?

  • "A.J."
    July 5th, 2008 at 12:51 am

    Oh, I will rephrase that.

    I dislike Italians.

    ..and no need to be redundant.

  • earl
    July 5th, 2008 at 1:50 am

    Did you ever put a kid in a crib or a playpen? Same damned thing. So shut up you hypocrites and busy bodies.

  • alice
    July 5th, 2008 at 4:04 am

    Jones- me too.
    I loved it.
    And now I’m 20, I wish I still had a big box to sit in and make into a boat/rocket/car/hospital etc.

  • Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    July 5th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    A crib or playpen is not the same thing as keeping a child in a cage in your car (although earl’s parents must’ve used a special playpen with a Plexiglas top and no ventilation, since he thinks they’re the same thing). Kids have died from being left in cars in the summertime.

  • Liapey
    July 5th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Cage =/= play pen, mmmkay?

  • sw
    July 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    hey alex, wanna ban tim? not adding anything positive to this site.

  • fireflicker
    July 7th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    Holly Crap, this Ricardo is Retardo. This is serious, those children are going to end up so messed up. They should be taken from these parents care (if you can call it care) thank goodness this was realized before if escalated.

  • DOJ
    July 7th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    i hope the belts were seat belts

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