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Parents Behaving Badly

Archive for the ‘Starvation’ Category

November 14th, 2008

Is a child’s life worth $10,000?

Insurance Policy Found In Home Where Child Starved To Death:
4-year-old Austin James Watkins was supposedly in the care of his aunt and grandmother after DHS took him away from his mother. I say supposedly in the care of because Austin died less than a week ago from severe malnutrition and only weighed 19lbs. when […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 5 comments

June 1st, 2008

Adoptive Parent, Judith Leekin, Starves Kids, Keeps Money

A New York woman, Judith Leekin, 63, admitted she used false names to adopt 11 disabled children. She also admitted to sending officials phony school report cards to qualify for adoption subsidies - one million dollars in two decades.
If this isn’t bad enough, she kept the kids like prisoners in in her Port St. Lucie, Florida home. […]

By Former Blogger -- 2 comments

May 3rd, 2008

UPDATE: John and Susan Griffin Stand Trail for Starvation Death of Their Two-Year-Old Son

Parents Behaving Bady originally posted about the Griffins last December.  Five months later, an autopsy has been done, the parents are still in jail, and their kids are in foster care.
However, John’s defense attorneys have asked to lower his bail. And now investigators believe that they abused another one of their children. Here’s the update:
In Rodgers Forge, Maryland, John J. Griffin, […]

By Former Blogger -- 3 comments

April 26th, 2008

Parents Arrested for Whipping and Handcuffing Teenage Son

In Grand Junction, Colorado, John Wilson, 40, and Kristie Moore, 35, were charged with felony child abuse for handcuffing Wilson’s 15-year-old son to a rail in the living room. They also whipped the teenager with a belt and denying him food and bathroom breaks. Moore is Wilson’s live-in girlfriend and police consider her the boy’s stepmother.
The […]

By Former Blogger -- 16 comments

April 19th, 2008

Crystal Conklin Kills Her Two-Year-Old Son - Battered from “Head to Toe”

In Warren, Michigan, Crystal Conklin, 27, is under trial for killing her two-year-old son, Sean  Sowards. The dcoctor who testified against her equates the boy’s injuries to torture. The doctor said he was abused his whole life. Sean had three dozen bruises, abrasions and cuts all over his body. He was also blind from being […]

By Former Blogger -- 19 comments

March 15th, 2008

Brenda Sullivan Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse for Locking Teenage Son in Cage and Starving Him

In Jacksonville, Florida, Brenda Sullivan plead guilty to three counts of aggravated child abuse for keeping her teenage adopted son in a caged crib in an incident some people are calling the worst case of child abuse they have ever seen. Sullivan is undergoing a sentencing hearing and faced up to 20 years in prison.  (You can see pictures of […]

By Former Blogger -- 6 comments

November 1st, 2005

Parents Get Three Years For Starving Child

Remember the Nickels? Yeah, I had blotted them out of my subconscious mind as well. They were found guilty of attempting to starve their daughter to death. Well, they were sentenced - and I use the term lightly - yesterday.
“I cannot allow what happened to Kayla to ever happen again if I have the ability […]

By joelnet -- 2 comments

October 17th, 2005

Parents On Trial For Starving Baby With Raw Food Diet

Here’s a Fun Fact: Joseph and Lamoy Andressohn are from Homestead, Florida - the town where I was born. Unlike the Andressohns, however, my parents didn’t try to raise me on a diet of peanut shells and lawn clippings. And unlike their little girl, I didn’t starve to death.
The Andressohns have been charged with neglect […]

By joelnet -- 23 comments