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11 Children of Michael and Sharon Gravelle
Michael and Sharon Gravelle forced their eleven adopted special needs children to sleep in stacked cages rigged with alarms. At night, the children were so afraid of setting off the alarms that they...
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Child of Amanda Jolliff
A 14 year old Colorado boy was kept padlocked in a small room with no light and boarded up windows by his mother, Amanda Jolliff, for all but a few hours a day. The teen was allowed one meal a day, if...
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Child of Ernest and Cynthia Davison
Officials responding to a child neglect tip found a 5 year old adopted girl weighing only 21 pounds. Her body showed signs of having been restrained for long periods of time. She and her three...
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Austin and Edward Bryant
In 2000, Edward and Linda Bryant adopted two foster children, Austin and Edward Bryant. Both children were classified as special needs and the Bryants received government subsidies for their care....
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2 Children of David and Glenda Kinghorn
David and Glenda Kinghorn had 2 biological children and four adopted children, and took in as many as 8 additional children from disrupted adoptions. David was charged and convicted of raping one of...
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11 Children of Tom and Debra Schmitz
All 18 of the children living with Tom and Debra Schmitz, some adopted and some biological, were removed from their home after a nurse in their employ reported abuse and neglect. Many of the children...
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Matthew Degner and 4 Siblings
After 14 year old Matthew Degner died, his mother dragged his dead body outside in hopes that officials would not look inside her home and see its squalid condition—or the 200 animals, riddled with...
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Timothy Boss
In July 2000, 10 year old Timothy Boss was beaten to death by his adoptive parents, Donald Boss Jr. and Lisa Boss. He spent the night before his death bound to a chair in the family’s basement....
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Dominick J. (Andrew) Diehl
Dominick Diehl, who also went by Andrew, was 13 when he was beaten to death by his adoptive parents, Michael and Karen Diehl. He was regularly tied the floor of the family’s bus and beaten with rods...
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Joseph Beebe
8 year old Joseph Beebe was beaten to death with a bamboo rod by his adoptive mother, Edith Beebe. Joseph was one of six special needs children adopted by Edith and her husband Brian; all were...
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Erica Lynn Parsons
Erica Lynn Parsons, who would today be 15, has not been seen since 2011, but she was not reported missing until August 2013, when her 19 year old step-brother went to the authorities. Erica’s adoptive...
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Child of David and Pamela Martin
Police responding to a child abuse tip in early February 2013 found a mentally challenged 17 year old left emaciated, filthy, and chained to a pole in his family’s basement. The teen’s father, David...
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Minnet and Jasmine Bowman, and 1 Sibling
Minnet (age 9) and Jasmine (age 7) Bowman were murdered in 2006 by their adoptive mother, Renee Bowman, and their bodies were stored in her basement freezer. The murders were discovered in 2008 when...
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Shane Graham and 10 Siblings
Shane Graham, age 11, who had autism, Down’s Syndrome, and sickle-cell anemia, disappeared in 1999 or 2000. His adoptive mother, Judith Leekin, is believed to have murdered him and buried his body in...
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Cheyenne Noell Wolf
Cheyenne Wolf, age 11, died from an untreated head injury. Her sisters, Sara Elizabeth Wolf (age 16) and Skylar Marlene Wolf, reported that Cheyenne was routinely beaten by their stepmother, Denise...
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Jaelen Edge
13-year-old Jaelen Edge and his sister, 9-year-old Faith Edge, were found dead in a Santa Ana, California, hotel room the day before their mother, Marilyn Edge, was to turn over custody of the two...
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Aidan Edward Bossingham, and 2 siblings
Aidan Edward Bossingham, age 13, was starved to death by his mother, Jessica Lee Jensen. He weighed 21 pounds when he died. Though Aidan was diagnosed with a human growth hormone deficiency, Jensen...
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GW by Jeffrey “Adam” Kraft and Michele L. Buckner-Kraft
An 8-year-old girl identified as GW was starved, imprisoned, and abused by her uncle, Jeffrey “Adam” Kraft, and his wife, Michele L. Buckner-Kraft, for approximately four years. Before GW and her...
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Son of David and Pamela Martin
A 17-year-old boy was imprisoned in a basement and starved by his father, David L. Martin, and his stepmother, Pamela S. Martin. The boy had lived in the basement since September 2012, when his father...
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Boy by Christina Thomas and Peggy Starr
Christina Thomas and her mother, Peggy Starr, abused Erin Albin, a developmentally-disabled woman under their care, and abused, starved, and imprisoned Albin’s son between 2006 and 2010. When the boy...
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