Tortured 17-Year-Old Boy Escapes Captors After a Year in Captivity

Police in Tracy, California released video yesterday of a 17-year-old boy named Kyle, who stumbled into a health club December 1, 2008, after being tortured and abused for nearly a year. Kyle was captured after he ran away from his a group foster home and was held against his will by Michael and Kelly Schumacher. Police charged them with five felony counts, including torture, kidnapping, conspiracy, child abuse and false imprisonment. Two other men were also found guilty for participating in the beating of this young boy. Kyle was brave enough to testify in court against his abusers and said that he was beating with items such as a baseball bat. When Kyle walked into the health club last winter, he asked if he could hide behind the salon counter. Salon workers covered him with a blanket and got the manager, who called the police. "'Don't let them get me, don't let them get me'," the manager quoted Kyle as saying. "He was totally terrified." The young boy was confused, dehydrated and emaciated when detectives arrived. He was in such horrid shape that initially, police believed he couldn't have been more than 10 or 12-years old. He still had shackles chained to his foot, which he carried so it would not drag. He reportedly jumped on a trampoline, over the fence of the Schumacher residence, once he broke free from his shackles.

The boy's aunt, 43-year-old Caren Ramirez is now wanted by Tracy police as she will also likely face felony abuse charges. At one time, Ramirez had custody of the boy, but then he was removed when she was charged with beating him. "For a human being to look that way, to be treated that's way," Lea Leonardo, of the health club the boy fled to, said. "It's almost hard to imagine...that someone would do that to this kid."

Britney's Handlers Deny Physical Abuse

Star magazine and Radar Online are both reporting that Britney Spears received a beating, including a black eye, when she accused her current boyfriend/handler/agent, Jason Trawick of cheating on her with a younger woman. Radar has even posted exclusive audio recordings of an alleged Britney talking to her ex-husband, Jason Alexander, about the physical altercation. Star reports that an image of Britney with a black eye is a direct result of the abusive relationship.Star is also claiming that Britney was pregnant with Trawick's baby earlier this year. Britney's representatives have denied the allegations even though Radar has posted recordings of the conversation between Spears and Alexander. Britney infamously married Jason Alexander in Las Vegas in early 2004, after a drug fueled weekend of partying in Sin City. Alexander relater told Rolling Stone that he and Britney spent their time in Vegas having sex, snorting cocaine, drinking and talking ecstasy. In the audio recording Radar obtained, Alexander asks Spears about the rumors of her engagement to Trawick.

Alexander asks: "How’s your problems with your fiancé?"
Britney answers: "That (explative) is not my fiancé."
Alexander: "I thought he proposed to you or something at the beach."
Britney: "Before or after he beat on me?"

Britney's manager/handler Larry Rudolph told Access Hollywood that the recording is a fake, telling Billy Bush, "We are 100 percent taking stern and immediate legal action." Both Star and Radar say they are sticking by their stories. Britney's 29th birthday is tomorrow. She is at the age that many Monarch slaves start to becoming self-aware for the first time. Two years ago, during her campaigning for her Circus album, Britney gave MTV a look into her life in her Britney: For the Record documentary. During the interview, Britney said that she felt like a prisoner after her father/handler/alleged sexual abuser Jamie Spears gained conservatorship and Larry Rudolph regained his status as her manager.

During the same MTV documentary, Britney said she lost all the joy in her life after being placed under the conservatorship of her father and that now she was paying a big price for the mistakes she made in 2007. Hopefully, the recordings are fake. Jason Alexander said in 2008, that he no longer communicated with Britney so it seems kind of out of left field that she would just call him and tell him her boyfriend was abusive.