40-Pound Adopted Tweens Taken into State Custody
Thanks (if that’s the word for it) to Southern Sass for this appalling story of adoptive parents run amock. I’ve run a fair number of stories in this space about adoptive and foster parents who treat their kids as badly or worse than they were treated by their original parents (with poor Marcus Fiesel being perhaps the saddest story of all). You can now add to this Gallery of Monsters John and Connie Oliver, the parents of two kids they adopted from Estonia. At least, they were their parents, until authorities discovered that their 10-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy weighed no more than 45 pounds apiece. According to police, the kids were routinely abused, with loving mom Connie locking them out of the house whenever she wanted to go shopping.
This is one of those cases where I think a punishment in kind is much deserved. Whaddya think, folks? These two look like they could lose about a hundreds pounds or so anyway. Hell, starvation might be doing them a favor.
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September 29th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
My 4 y/o grandson weighs 51#s. I would eat dirt myself before seeing a child go hungry…yet everyday,it’s another one.
I’m with ya on the punishment…the “parents” would be healthier minus a hundred or so pounds.
September 29th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Exactly. My five-year-old daughter weighs more than these kids who are twice her age. Ugh.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:20 am
They should be locked up and starved for a while and see how they like it…idiots!