Kenneth and Ashley Cleek Leave Seven-Week-Old on Highway Exit Ramp
In Oklahoma, After responsing to a call of a child lying in the road, officers found the baby on the ground outside the car, with the Cleeks passed out inside the car, and their 18-month-old son strapped in his car seat. The temperature was 92 degrees out.
The baby was taken to a nearby hospital. Doctors found abrasions and bruises on her elbow and knee and diagnosed a bilateral skull fracture. The baby and her brother have been placed with family members.
Ashley Cleek is charged with child neglect, and Kenneth Cleek is charged with public intoxication for being high on Xanax. The Cleeks were released on $5,000 bail each.
I know, let’s get high and take the kids for a ride…not! What a bunch of morons.
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33 opinions for Kenneth and Ashley Cleek Leave Seven-Week-Old on Highway Exit Ramp
5th Wil
Jul 15, 2007 at 6:27 am
Im so confused on this story! Matter fact I dont even want an explanation…
Kathy
Jul 15, 2007 at 9:49 am
It never ceases to amaze me that the most unfit members of our society seem to be the most willing to procreate. PLEASE someone tell me these people will not have access to their children ever again.
lost in the desert
Jul 15, 2007 at 11:54 am
I don’t even know what to say. This woman is not a mother, she’s a brood mare. Likewise, the father is a sperm-donor.
Some ppl shouldn’t breed.
Michelle G.
Jul 15, 2007 at 6:17 pm
It says they stopped at 5am and they were found at 2pm? That is a long time for a little baby with a skull fracture to lie in gravel - it is amazing she is alive.
Sarah
Jul 15, 2007 at 8:14 pm
What a couple of LOSERS! These people are sad, sad, sad. Those poor Kids. Let’s hope these family members are more responsible that the as*hole parents. When I look at my son, I’m soooo glad he will never suffer the indignities that these children face. And it makes me want to bring all the children I read about on this site home with me. Kids deserve all the love, comfort and safety we can provide for them, and when we risk our children for our own selfish needs we fail as parents. Some people should not breed.
CtyBlogs
Jul 15, 2007 at 8:46 pm
sadly - this is now “old” news - the new news is:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19766590/
Jules
Jul 15, 2007 at 9:37 pm
I would love to see the day when certain drugs are laced with something that would prevent people to procreate. These people don’t deserve to be parents. I hope this poor baby gets placed in a loving home.
Dolce
Jul 16, 2007 at 8:04 am
The more I see and read this website the more it sickens me to my stomach about how unfair these inhuman animals get punished for these things, my opinion is “WHY? Do they get a slap on the wrist? WHY can it be like before? (An Eye for an Eye a Tooth for a Tooth) Since my friend told me about this website I read it daily and I still cant comprehend why anyone would hurt or abusive an angel of God, these children are lent to us to love, nurture, help grow into loving and kind hearted people with sense of right and wrong and make happy as much as possible, I am a mother of 3 and planning for the 4th and Im only 30 and I work and have everyday stress like any other person and never in my life would I ever ever think for a second to do something of that nature at all. Karma will come to these beast eventually. God Bless the children.
CARLOS
Jul 16, 2007 at 9:20 am
FU**ING LOOSERS!! THEIR BAIL WAS ONLY 5000!! THEY SHOULDNT EVEN HAD A BAIL!!! THATS REDICULOUS!! THEY SHOULD REALLY PUNISH THEM!!
Ihavekidstoo
Jul 16, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Out on $5,000 bail … what, so she can get knocked up again and neglect ANOTHER baby? It is SO easy to get birth control in this country. If these people don’t want kids, why don’t they just take advantage of the ready access everyone has to birth control? Or get their pipes tied if they can’t spare the half minute it takes to put on a condom or take their pill every morning.
lost in the desert
Jul 16, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Ctyblogs, thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I read the story over my morning coffee. This attrocity happened just 350 miles from me. I have several coworkers & friends in Reno. The whole town is outraged and ready to take justice in their own hands. Video game addiction my a**!!! That’s worse than lazy, I don’t even have a word bad enough to call these 2 losers.
The absolute worst part is that there was food in the house. It’s not as though there was nothing to feed those babies. How on earth could a mother listen to her children crying in hunger and keep playing a stupid, fu***** video game? Is she deaf and stupid?
Those babies were 11 months apart in age. Sounds like she pretty much hopped right back into the sack the night she got home from the hospital from having baby number 1.
Please, Mr. Judge, sentence them to a little time here in the desert. We know just how to take care of animals such as these.
I’m sorry ya’ll, I don’t often go off like that. For some reason, these two make me sick!
ricky
Jul 16, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Thanks ctyblogs for the link. I don’t live very far from these people. It’s getting so that I am ashamed to be a member of the human race. It wasn’t the games, it was THEM. They chose to neglect their children. With the baby on the highway, it wasn’t the drugs, it was THE PARENTS. They chose to take the drugs. Theses four “parents” should fry.
ladytigers33
Jul 16, 2007 at 7:47 pm
what’s sad is, I went to school with this girl… and she has been like this for YEARS…. She was already under investigation of child abuse here in tennessee and she was a damn drug addict and a drunk when I knew her… she shouldn’t of had these kids in the first place… a 5000 bail??? c’mon what’s this world coming to?? I could tack on more charges than that…. let’s see… child endangerment?? that baby was next to the read… and not even to mention they HAD to be driving with these kids all jacked up… this is sad
no duh
Jul 16, 2007 at 9:15 pm
lost in the desert, I agree with you on the two losers I read about through the link (the two in the story are just as bad). It’s a stomach churning way to greet the morning reading about this pair, but I don’t see how the age difference comes into play. My partner and his brother are eleven months apart, and they had an excellent upbringing. My in-laws were younger than these monsters when they had the boys (though birth control today is so much better). They weren’t rich, but those kids had one of the best upbringings I’ve ever seen. This is a b.s. excuse, because even my alcoholic, drug addicted, mentally ill father kept us fed. If an addiction is severe enough to interfere with taking care of your children, then it’s you job to a) find a safe, loving enviornment for your children and b) get yourself off whatever it is you are addicted too. If you want to stay an addict then stay away from the kids. There are no excuses.
ctyblogs
Jul 16, 2007 at 9:55 pm
the close child spacing lends to the possibility of severe PPD, for the mom - dad’s excuse? I don’t know - both of them should’ve gotten help instead of starving their kids to death.
http://crimewave.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/starving-babies/
BigVic
Jul 17, 2007 at 9:08 am
I know these two. The media got this story SO wrong it is disgusting.
What happened here was an accident, and yes irresponsible, but not deliberate or a drug induced haze as has been alleged.
The father was driving to a wedding and had been up for more then 24hrs and pulled over to take a nap before continuing the rest of the way.
The mother JUST gave birth last week and was on prescription xanex. The father was asleep and the baby was needing to be breast fed so she opened the door, took out her baby, and went to the front seat to nurse. The prescription kicked in and she fell asleep with her baby on her stomach. During her sleep the child rolled down her legs and underneath the car (not in the middle of the road).
The police came and started yelling for everyone to get out of the car they are arresting his wife and screaming about the baby being hurt. Yes, the father seemed a bit out of it. He was sleep deprived and then woke up to police yelling and hearing his baby was hurt. He was Horrified.
This was a mistake (A BIG MISTAKE) but not the atrocity that the media has made it out to be. The media got several facts wrong. Including the time of day, it was 2am not 2pm.
I know they are guilty in the court of public opinion, but if you knew the true story (and not the media sensationalism) then you would not be so harsh.
God Bless
Ihavekidstoo
Jul 17, 2007 at 10:37 am
BigVic, I admire your generosity of spirit and courage for defending these people on this forum.
However, if, as you say, this was accidental, the parents are still at fault. Anyone who’s had a baby knows how horribly sleep deprived you are in the first few months. These parents must certainly have known what to expect. So the wise decision would have been to find an alternative to extended driving and being awake for 24 hours.
Further, I don’t know of any doctor who will perscribe xanex - or any other strong drug like it - to a breastfeeding mother. I wasn’t even allowed to take cough syrup when I was nursing. And everyone knows that when you are responsible for a small infant, you shouldn’t take anything that will impair your ability to wake up in response to their crying - which this baby surely must have been doing, at great volume, when she hit the ground.
If this was a mistake, it was a mistake that could have cost both these children their lives … and may yet cost both these parents their children and some jail time. The point is, when you’re a parent, you can’t afford to make stupid mistakes like this. Mistakes will be inevitable, but stupid, dangerous ones don’t have to be.
BigVic
Jul 17, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Your right. It was a mistake, and there will be consequences to their actions.
But for some to judge them calling them “as*hole parents” and other items with way more expletives is wrong.
My point is that the media has blown this story out of proportion in order to sale ads, adding more victims to an already tragic event. You should see what this wonderful Christian family is going through. Not just this couple, but their family members and friends as well.
People should not be throwing bricks through their windows. I believe you are right, the Doctors should not have prescribed that to her… but they did, and it is still not the doctors fault that it happened, it is the parents… even though it was a mistake it is a terrible mistake and the consequences could have been dire. They will have to live with this for the rest of their lives… They certainly don’t need the scarlet letter to be put on with that burdon.
Not that one forum will make a difference, it is just so that I can get this off my chest.
lost in the desert
Jul 17, 2007 at 5:05 pm
No duh, I didn’t mean to imply that all parents who have their children close together are bad parents, based solely on that fact. However, it seems to me that these two were not prepared for their 1st baby. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why this particular female (I won’t refer to her as a woman, because she isn’t a woman) allowed herself to get pregnant again so quickly.
I certainly did not intend to insult your hubby or his folks. They sound like they knew how to raise their babies right.
As always, this in IMHO.
5th Wil
Jul 18, 2007 at 2:37 am
If you can’t feed it — you DONT need it! And If you don’t like it don’t “Grind on it”…. REAL talk… Parents need to be held ACCOUNTABLE and teach these kidz something Ya Heard me!?!??!
Mom of four, so far...
Jul 18, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I don’t know about Xanax, but some antidepressants *ARE* safe to take while breastfeeding so it is logical that she could have been taking an antidepressant while nursing.
Although antidepressants do not usually knock out out into a dead sleep.
Dolce
Jul 19, 2007 at 8:18 am
That’s a load of BS oops I was tired so due to my man being tired and me being druged up (which the doctor wont prescribe if your breast feeding) uh uh the baby fell and um yeah right thats obsurd how can people be so naive as to beleive that load of crap that one was tired and the other one fell asleep breast feeding on the highway because she was on Xanax yeah asleep in the car for 9 hours and BigVic wants us to fall for that also according to another persons comment of knowing the girl she was apparently already under investigation before for child abuse HELLO what more do you need a camera on them every second just to make it realistic. Again load of Crap
Amy
Jul 19, 2007 at 8:55 am
I think that parents (and i use that term loosely) like that should have the same thing done to them as was done to their child. Someone can drop them face-first out of a monster truck.
Dee
Jul 20, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I just want to know how she got the little boy back. I can’t believe they gave him back to her!!!! He was taken for neglect. Like mother like daughter I guess.
Come on, “good parent” BigVic? Paleeeease. She has been a druggie as long as I have known her and he is a useless piece of trash, they deserve each other, but those children should NOT have to suffer for their imbecilic behaviors.
I hope the courts do the right thing this time and keep those kids away from her, she never has been a mother and she never will be. She can’t leave the pain pills and straws alone long enough to think about her kids.
Breast feeding and dropped the baby? What a crock!!!! If these kids go back to her after this, it will definitely make me think more about the laws that are supposed to keep children like this protected against useless trash.
ladytigers33
Jul 20, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Big Vic… you say you “supposedly” know ashley… The girl lived with me… I kicked her trashy ass out because she couldn’t stay off the drugs and couldn’t stop running around with men OLD ENOUGH TO BE HER FATHER… Sounds like a REAL responsible mother to me… Riddle me this?? if this acrobatic 7 week old rolled down her leg, how’d it get a bilateral skull fracture??? That had to be a HARD fall.. a baby’s skull is flexible… Her son had already been takin away from her… They should have NEVER gave the baby back.. You need a serious wake up call.. and i’m sorry.. I was a pre-med major in college and dealt with pediatrics and no DOCTOR is gonna give a NURSING mother xanax… Last time I seen ashley, she was at a gas station trying to get me to go to the liquor store because I was 21 and she wasn’t and trying to find pills… and not just any pills OXYCONTIN AND MORPHINE… These people are a sorry excuse and a waste of a human being.. this is pathetic… and to even think you’d say it was irresponsible but they are a “good christian’ family… you need to be slapped… yes, ashley “came from a good christian family” but when she was FOURTEEN she went and told the police a bunch of lies so she could move in with her sorry excuse for a human being boyfriend who was TWENTY SIX so she could be free to drink, do drugs, and whore around… How dare you protect her… I have known her for almost 12 years and she’ll never change… If I ever see her again I will slap her face… You and HER and her old man and I did say OLD man are pathetic… I hope they put them under the jail.. Her grandparents were good people and she trashed them like they were the worst people in the world just because they didn’t wanna see her the way she is now… Ask around to some of her “best” friends that’s known her, her whole life.. even they think she’s trash… I’ve never known xanax to put you to a DEAD sleep… she was wasted… AS USUAL… I hope she never sees the kids again… You wanna know who I am i’m sure if you KNOW ashley as you say you do you know who I am… if not, i’d gladly give you my name… Tell me if you have retaliation and i’ll give you my proof…
caringmom
Jul 21, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I know the family of the father. THEY are a good christian family, he’s the black sheep. The baby is in great health and in great, loving hands. We would like to know more. what were the 1st charges? Criminal or just DHS? what proof can you provide?
I’m not asking for more judgement, that’s not my place, I’m just trying to understand.
Kathy
Jul 24, 2007 at 11:19 am
Here is a link with their booking photos:
http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=131303
Sleepy my A$$! These people are STONED out of their gourds! Take these babies far far away and NEVER give them back.
Nicole
Jul 24, 2007 at 5:21 pm
The day I find out that I’m going to die in a certain amount of time, or all hell breaks loose and it’s anarchy, I’m going to become a vigilante and take out everyone of these sick fks on this website. Watch me.
ATru
Jul 25, 2007 at 11:40 am
I know the family of the father as well. They are good Christians and right now are debating who IN the family should get custody of the kids. They’re thinking about what’s best for the kids and believe me, they are heart broken that such things had to happen to them in the first place. Right now they’re just trying to get the kids put in the best place among the family. Yeah the parents made a big “oops” and we don’t know for sure everything that happened. I agree when I saw the pics I’m pretty sure they were on something, but at the same time they had been driving for 24 hours to get to the wedding.
Yeah it’s all messed up, but believe the kids are being taken care of.
5th Wil
Jul 25, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Ummm Please stop making excuses for these people! In the first comment on this story I said I didn’t even want an explanation. Some people came back and explained the details of this incident and after reading them guess what:
I knew I didn’t want an explanation!
Larissa
Jul 29, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Some stories really are incredible. Whenever i hear of a child being abused becasue a parent lost their temper, I am saddened , but atleast that is more realistic then some of the stories on here. Don’t take it the wrong way and think I am condoning any type of abuse . All I am saying is that a parent losing their temper because a child is acting up is more believable…. A baby on the side of the road?????WHAT?????
jessesgirl
Aug 9, 2007 at 10:55 am
It always amazes me how when something like this happens, that family members or friends always come to defend the people involved.I am sure this is something tragic that the family will have to live with for years.But i also think that instead of the people who defend people like this getting all mad at people blogging here and discussing these issues ., they should think about how it would be if they didnt knwo this person and if they only heard about this story or any other story, i bet they too would have strong feelings about what they think should happen, and where the baby should be .I love my friends and most of them have children, and would do anything for their babies, but if one day i read a story about them doing something horrible like this, then i wouldnt defend them , i would say when i knew them they were wonderful people,. BUT I dont know what the hell has happened.People make mistakes, but its more tragic when a child is involved.Some people arent ready to have children but for some reason do, and they never bother to change their horribel ways or self destructive behavior.
rockdoll_71
Oct 21, 2007 at 1:22 am
I only hope that they NEVER get their kids back.
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