MANY KNEW CHRISTIAN CHOATE WAS BEING TORTURED

AN EXPLOSIVE report in an Indiana newspaper over the weekend reveals that more than 13 people knew that Christian Choate was being tortured, abused and held in a dog cage. The Times of Munster said none of the people said a word to cops. Just one went to the Indiana Department of Child Services.
The 13-year-old boy died in 2009 after enduring eyars of torture, abuse and cruelty at the hands of his father, Riley Choate and stepmother, Kimberly Kubina. The sad, short life and death of Christian went unreported until cops dug up his body in May
from a shallow grave at a Gary, Indiana trailer park. An autopsy revealed he died of blunt force trauma. The couple now face murder and other charges. They've pleaded not guilty. One neighbor told The Times she remembered a children's service employee coming by the Choate home.
Lori Wingard said: "She never even stepped foot in the house. Kim (Kubina) came out of the house and stood there at the sidewalk and talked to the lady, and I just remember thinking, 'Go inside.'"
Wingard sold the family the dog cage where Christian was kept and tormented.
She added: "There are so many people that are involved that could have helped that little boy and didn't. I tried, and nothing was done." Guess social services wasn't listening to anyone on this matter and a sad, little boy died because of it.
Others were threatened with death and torture if they revealed the horrors inflicted on Christian, the Times said.  MORE THAN 13 KNEW CHRISTIAN CHOATE WAS BEING ABUSED

RILEY CHOATE, WIFE PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN TORTURE SLAY

NOT GUILTY? Well, after we stopped laughing that Riley Choate and wife Kimberly were serious when they entered pleas of not guilty in the vicious torture murder of their son Christian Choate, 13, we had to step back and shake our head at the system. But we digress... the couple had made separate court appearances last week and pleaded not guilty in the preliminaries.
Now, Kimberly Choate, 45, has been appointed appointed with a public defender, Linda Kollintzas while Riley Choate, 39, appeared with his private attorney, Randy Godshalk. But there is a ways to go before they can been convicted and the keys tossed away.

Positive identification of Christian's battered body remains pending. The boy was buried in a shallow grave in a mobile home park in Gary, Indiana for two years before authorities were alerted. Lake Criminal Court Judge Diane Boswell ordered the body be held by the Lake County coroner's office pending a hearing June 14.
The couple is next expected in court May 24 for a hearing on a state's request for handwriting samples.
The gruesome twosome have been hit with a total of 13 charges, including: murder, battery, four counts neglect of a dependent, criminal confinement, three counts obstruction of justice, and altering the scene of a death, and failure to report a dead body.

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