WowWow reviews. Just when you think you have scraped the bottom of the barrel, along comes stories like this.

NOXVILLE, Tennessee - Wayne Burkhart has been charged with using electric shock dog collars to control his two teenage daughters and with raping both girls. The man is being held on $1 million bond on charges of aggravated child abuse and two counts of rape. The man is a dog trainer and owns hunting dogs. The dog collars used are more powerful than your standard dog shock collar. He would place them on his two eldest daughters legs and activate them via remote control. A 15-year-old brother testified that his sisters would scream, lay on the floor and repeatedly plead with their father to stop activating the collars. The two girls — now ages 18 and 19 — are from their father's previous marriage. The couple has three other children, a girl and two boys, but none of the abuse allegations relate to those children, prosecutors said.

Even worse, the 18-year-old wept during her testimony, explaining that her father had been raping her since was 12 or 13 years old and threatened her with death if she ever told anyone. The girl finally told a school official after her father used the collar on her neck for the first time, couple with the fact that she was in fear that her 11-year-old sister was about to go throught the same ordeal.

The mother, Rebecca Burkhart, who prosecutors say knew about the use of dog collars but not the alleged sexual assaults, is charged with aggravated child neglect failing to report child abuse. She is free on bond. The four youngest children, including the 18-year-old, are in foster care. Authorities don't know the 19-year-old girl's whereabouts. The family is not being identified because the charges involve allegations of rape.

Sorry for the dog picture, but it's not like I have a stock picture of a chick getting shocked with a dog collar. Well, I do, but it's part of my private collection. Anyway, do any of our readers have any idea who this family is, or know them personally?

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