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Dec 5, 2008 4:38 pm US/Pacific

New Documents Reveal Weapons Used To Abuse Teen

Reporting
Steve Large

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―

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New documents reveal how "Kyle", the tortured Tracy teen, was allegedly abused for years and how he was beaten with items like martial arts sticks and clothes hangers.

The documents show that the boy, then 13, told deputies from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department that Ramirez had used martial arts sticks to spank him.

The report was taken after officers responded to a child abuse report on May 30, 2006 at a Citrus Heights home. The reports indicate that the teen showed signs of bruising on his legs, arms, had a split lip.

"He further explains that the defendant has also hit him with a spatula, broomstick, and a clothes hanger in the past," according to authorities.

Ramirez told authorities that she often suffers from depression and anxiety attacks. Documents indicated that she also told them that she was taking Zoloft to treat her condition.

Kelly Layne Lau and husband Michael Schumacher, of Tracy, were charged with 13 counts of abuse and former guardian Caren Ramirez, whom the boy called an aunt, was charged with 10 counts.

Lau, Schumacher and Ramirez were also charged with corporal injury to a child, child abuse and aggravated mayhem, which the San Joaquin County District Attorney's office said could yield life sentences if they are convicted.

Lau and her husband are also charged with endangering their four children aged one to nine years old.

The abuse at the couple's home started in July 2007, prosecutors said.

The boy escaped from the home in Tracy, about 60 miles east of San Francisco, on Monday and fled with a chain still attached to his foot to a nearby fitness center. He appeared emaciated, was covered in soot, and wearing only boxer shorts.

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