August 23rd, 2007
In Skokie, Illinois, prosecutors filed a petition of intent to seek the death penalty against Mila Petrov, 30, and Carlos Beltran, 31. They have been charged with six counts of first-degree murder in the death of their daughter, Melanie Beltran.
Police say that the five-year-old girl was routinely tied up by her parents, burned with cigarettes, and forced to eat […]
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October 7th, 2006
Hot tipper Kate passed along this article about Barbara and Tommy Baldwin, two (heterosexual) adoptive parents who kept the two boys in their care locked in a garage, and fed them nothing but garbage and dog food. When the 9- and 10-year-old boy were removed from the home, they immediately began to thrive again, and […]
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September 29th, 2006
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 […]
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