As I was saying...

Yesterday I posted about yet another MSM slam on home schoolers. One of the cases-in-point mentioned in KCCI's hit piece was the recent case of a teenage girl in Griswold, IA who burned down her house, killing her siblings. The reporter felt it necessary to call this a home school family; I simply referred to it as a case of weird, sick abuse.

And I was right. There's waaaaay more going on here, and these people are just mental reprobates. Check out this from today's Register:

Mother of teen charged in Griswold fire admits she's a bigamist

Debbie Street, mother of a teen charged with setting a fatal fire in Griswold, admitted Tuesday that she is a bigamist.

Debbie Street said that at the time of her marriage to Brian Street, who is charged with abusing her 17-year-old daughter jailed in the fire, she already was married to Steve Grothe. Street said she is still married to Grothe, whom she married in Nebraska in July 2000.

Street, 37, said she married Brian Street on April 17, 2003, in Arizona.

"I got married because I had to," she said. Street declined to expand on her reasons.

Under Iowa law, bigamy is a serious misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $250 to $1,500 and up to one year in prison.

Cass County Attorney Dan Feistner said no charges have been filed against Debbie Street.

"We're aware of it, and it's under investigation," he said. "No decision has been made."

Tracey Dyess, 17, is being held on first-degree murder charges for the fire that killed her sister, Jessica Dyess, 13, and Kaleb Dyess, 6.

Dyess is scheduled for a court appearance on May 5. Her attorney, public defender Greg Steensland of Council Bluffs, said he is going to file a motion to have Dyess tried as a juvenile.

If Dyess is convicted as an adult, Steensland said she would receive a life prison sentence without parole. If she is convicted as a juvenile, he said she could be released within four years. Dyess is being held at the Southwest Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Council Bluffs.

Brian Street is being held at the Cass County Jail on 10 counts of third-degree sexual abuse, in an investigation that began after the fire. He initially was taken into custody on theft warrants from three Iowa counties.

Family relationships in the case are complex, and have a distant link to another western Iowa abuse and murder case.

Debbie Street's mother, Diane, is married to Brian Street's father. Brian Street's father also was once married to Dixie Shanahan Duty's mother.

Dixie Duty was convicted of second-degree murder by a Shelby County jury in 2004 for the shotgun slaying of her abusive husband, Scott Shanahan. Duty, who was remarried as she awaited trial, left her husband's body in a bedroom of their Defiance home for more than a year after she killed him in August 2002.

Diane Street said her husband and Dixie Duty's mother were married for 15 years, but Dixie and Brian did not grow up together.

"They're not related," Diane Street said of Duty and her stepson, who also is her son-in-law. "They weren't raised together."

Steensland, Dyess' attorney, also represented Duty.

In addition, Diane Street said Tuesday that Kaleb Dyess, the dead 6-year-old, is the biological son of Debbie Street's adopted daughter, Tina Bombar. Diane Street said Debbie considered Kaleb her son.

Debbie and Diane Street spent most of Tuesday waiting for authorities to release the bodies of the two children. They were sent to Des Moines for autopsies.

Diane Street said a memorial service is tentatively scheduled for Friday in Griswold with a funeral Monday in Hastings, Neb., but arrangements still were being made.

Sounds to me like Tracey did the only thing she knew to do to save her siblings from her own fate.

And we're not even in Arkansas. What a twisted, demented tale. Home schoolers, my eye. All together, now: "I'm My Own Grandpa..."

As an aside, have you thought about the fact that every home is a school of some sort? Kids are all learning from their surroundings, from the people who are in charge of them, whether you know it or not. I am in NO WAY justifying Jessica's actions. I'm just saying that maybe a few more indictments are in order here. She may be a perp, but she's also a victim of a few more perps that need to be removed from polite society.

Abusers need to be punished. Severely.

Legitimate home schoolers shouldn't have to then bear the burden of increased and unnecessary state scrutiny simply because a couple of backwoods freaks finally had their sick behaviors brought to light. String up the criminals. Don't hamstring the law-abiders.