Stop the Insanity

If you know these people, or you came across their MySpace profiles, you would probably be touched by their seemingly desperate cries for help. One of them, Sean Allen, is the father of Corben, a seven year old boy. Asha Stormberg is Sean's girlfriend. They are claiming that Corben's mom, Sandra Amerman is abusing and neglecting him.

Sandra has a two year old son, Caven, who has Lycensephally. Although it is true that Caven is slowly dying, Sandra has made sure that Corben gets counceling. This may be a bummer of a situation to be in, but it is by no means abuse. They are also claiming that Sandra never feeds him. They even have pictures "proving" how starved he is. In the "before" picture, Corben is lying on a couch in a fetal type position. In the "after" picture, he is standing with his back to the camera, squeezing his arms together to accentuate his shoulder blades. He has never been refused food. He is a thin child, but so is my seven year old son. A sudden growth spurt will do the same.

When Sean last had Corben, he threatened to keep him, despite the fact that Sandra has sole custody of him. When he did bring Corben home, he didn't even bother knocking, he just barged right into her house like he owned it. He then started yelling at Sandra. As he was standing in the doorway, my wife showed up to help out her friend.

She had been called down there by Sandra, and wound up asking Sean to leave. He refused and even took a step towards my wife, telling her to stay out of it. She put herself in a defensive stance, but according to her, Sandra, and Corben, never once did she lay a hand on him. Once he got back to Portland, he called the police to say that my wife had pushed him, and beat him up.

My wife is no black-belt in karate, and Sean outweighs her by close to 80 pounds. He was also in a blind rage. When he finally did leave, he kicked a couple of garbage cans and the fence. When the police showed up to talk to Sandra, there was so much concern that Sean would show back up and tak Corben, the Corvallis Police actually put a 24 hour watch on her house.

Both Sean and Asha have posts stating how horrible a person Sandra is, Asha even calling her a "bitch ass." However, on Sandra's MySpace page there is nothing about the situation at all. On her Facebook there are only a couple comments about the whole thing, neither one of them negative, and one of them just saying, "Poor Corby."

Now obviously, anyone reading this is going to assume that I have some bias, and they would be right. I have an interest in not seeing Corben get placed into a situation that he doesn't deserve to be in. I believe that Sean and Asha are mean and hateful people that don't deserve to ruin this poor child's life.

Please feel free to comment and let everyone know what you think. Not that our opinions really have any affect on the outcome of anything, but it would be good to know what people think about the situation. I have included links to their MySpace pages, so feel free to peruse them. If you are a friend of Sandra's, you can check out both her MySpace and Facebook page, as she has them set to private.