i just cannot fathom this. let's just say the parents ARE innocent...........wouldn't you want those kids in state custody until a more thorough job was done investigating ma and pa? i know i would. a 40 pound 12 year old? no
are there doctor's reports on these kids? did the parents have them under medical care since they were so underweight. is there proof ma and pa were concerned enough to seek help? that's what i want to know. if the answer is no, those kids should IMMEDIATELY be put in state custody. i don't care how nasty that is. it's got to be better than what they had. they'd at least be getting three squares
Parents accused of starving kids win custody
Adopted kids looked like they ‘hadn't been fed in months,’ sergeant says
The Associated Press
Updated: 6:38 p.m. ET Dec 13, 2006
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A couple accused of starving their two adopted children were awarded custody by a Family Court judge Wednesday, the parents’ attorney said.
John and Connie Oliver’s children were taken into state custody Sept. 23 after police found the 12-year-old girl and her then-10-year-old brother unattended at a church playground.
The girl weighed just 40 pounds at the time, and her brother weighed 45 pounds.
The two children had been adopted from an Estonian orphanage and suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Oliver attorney Doug Brannon argued during a hearing this week. He said the youngsters had gained only a few pounds during their nearly three months in state custody.
The children are to be returned next week to the Olivers in Jonesville, about 80 miles north of Columbia, Brannon said...........
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Another shame involving children and how they are cared for in my state. Those "parents" need to be publicly punished and shamed. As the parents of an adopted daughter from China, Dragonwife and I go out of our way to care for and to somehow makeup for what Miss Wiggle went through at the Chinese orphanage. The Chinese orphanage staff did their best but were swamped by the number of children they have to care for.
On a different situation but along the same vein the infamous Susan Smith, who drowned her two small boys as she let her car slide into a pond with them strapped in their car seats, should have received the death penalty. I have almost completely abandoned the death penalty as a form of punishment but I would have made an exception in her case.
b b, there are horror stories in ALL states.
i am in NO WAY defending susan smith. i think she should pay for what she did BUT how could she possibly be sane? how can one be sane and do that? there is something so wrong inside her.
i read your adoption story and thought is was WONDERFUL.
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