`HOME ALONE' COUPLE INDICTED ON 64 CHARGES

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 10, 1993                   TAG: 9302100233
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: GENEVA, ILL.                                LENGTH: Short
`HOME ALONE' COUPLE INDICTED ON 64 CHARGES
The couple accused of leaving their two young daughters home alone while they vacationed in Mexico were indicted Tuesday on 64 counts, some charging that the children also were physically abused.
"The essence of the charges is leaving the children home alone over an 18-month period of time at various times," said David Akemann, state's attorney for Kane County, where a grand jury returned the indictments.
David and Sharon Schoo also locked one girl in a crawl space for seven hours and another in a room repeatedly, beat their daughters with a belt and pulled their hair, Akemann said. One girl was scratched on the chest and abdomen and kicked in the ribs, the indictment said.
- Associated Press

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB