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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

A Mother’s Love

posted by on August 1 at 9:49 AM

Nine teens and young adults adopted in New York were cruelly abused, starved and shackled like prisoners in their Florida home by a heartless scam-artist mom who lived off money meant for the kids, authorities said.

The hundreds of thousands of dollars came courtesy of New York taxpayers. The children were often bound together with plastic ties, allowed to soil themselves and bore scars and burns, Florida investigators said. None appeared to have more than a fourth-grade education.

All were starving.

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See, if these kids had had a father, none of this would have happened. The right wing was right all along!

Posted by Levislade | August 1, 2007 9:55 AM
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Ahh, happy thoughts in the morning...

Posted by Dianna | August 1, 2007 10:11 AM
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People suck.

Posted by flamingbanjo | August 1, 2007 10:16 AM
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Moral of the story never have any kids than these freaks will never have a chance at doing this shit to them. Besides, what is it with everyone wanting to shit out a dozen kids anyway? I mean there are over 6 Billion of us on the planet...we HAVE repopulated!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | August 1, 2007 12:12 PM
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There's got to be easier ways to make money.......

Posted by Jennifer McKevitt | August 1, 2007 1:00 PM
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These poor kids...

:(

Posted by 2lesmoms | August 2, 2007 1:52 PM
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I don't think the commentors read the story. This woman didn't biologically birth these poor kids. The birth parents got knocked up and dumped unwanted the kids on the NY child welfare service. The courts probably dinked around with giving the parents a second, third and fourth chance to get their acts together until the kids were too old to be adopted by any interested potential parents. Like Dan wrote in his book "The Kid"- he didn't want the second class used kid, he wanted the shiney new baby smell on his model- like most adoptive parents do. The state of NY like every other state is swamped with kids no one wants and so they sent many of the unwanted kids into a foster home where they get warehoused until they are dumped at 18- maybe 21 if they stay in school. Thsi con knew how to work the system- she knew to move out of state with the kids because since the foster care system isn't federalize as soon as you move out of state you avoid any scrutiny. Do you think NYC can afford to fly a case worker down to Florida for a home inspection? I hope she has many years in prison with former foster kids enacting retribution.

Posted by cminmd | August 3, 2007 2:21 PM

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