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Harford County sheriff's deputies said they are investigating a case of child abuse in which a solider on Aberdeen Proving Ground hit, burned and severely neglected her stepdaughter.

.........one of four siblings living at a home .... withstood horrible abuse at the hands of a woman identified as 27-year-old Monique Latrise Beneke.

"Clearly, there are indications this may have been going on for a period of time,"

Harford County deputies started investigating after a social worker at Edgewood Elementary School had concerns about Beneke's 4-year-old stepdaughter.

Court documents said two of the victim's siblings told police that Beneke picked her up and dropped her on the ground and was burned with a long, blue lighter on a number of occasions.

The victim also told the same story to police and said she had gotten in trouble for stealing food in the house and was punched in the stomach by Beneke.

Pediatricians who checked the 4-year-old out said she was malnourished, weighing only 28.6 pounds with a body mass index of less than 5 percent.

"The deputy observed what is believed to be grab marks on child and also reported that child may have been burned. (It) appeared child did have some burn injuries, minor to fingers and hands,"

Beneke told police a different story, that her stepdaughter's injuries were caused by other kids in the house and that she never burned her and didn't keep lighters in the house.

......a search warrant on Beneke's home revealed some startling revelations. First, authorities found a long, blue lighter like the kids had described, several laundry baskets like the ones the victim described being hit with, and detectives noticed the other children's rooms were clean and decorated nicely, while the victim's room consisted of a urine-soaked bed with containers filled with urine-soaked clothing and nothing else in the room.

Police arrested Beneke and consider her a flight risk.

"The detective most likely saw information suggesting that she could leave the area and made that notation to the court," Hopkins said.

WBAL has learned the victim's father is still stationed in Hawaii and had no knowledge of the alleged abuse. He is headed back to the area.
http://www.wbal.com/article/104256/2/apg-soldier-charged-with-child-abuse

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When Monique Beneke moved into the house on Bayberry Road in Edgewood a few months ago, the neighbors welcomed her and her four children.

"Cause my husband is retired Army,” said resident Mary Carle. “I [gave them] the welcome mat as much as I could."

But one of those children, a 4-year old girl, was a step-child and Beneke is now charged with abusing, neglecting and assaulting her in the weeks that followed.

According to charging documents, in addition to hitting the young victim, the mother also allegedly burned her hand with a lighter after she was caught trying to steal yogurt and marshmallows from the house.

She also locked the bathrooms after the child was caught drinking from a toilet.

A search of the house revealed Beneke's biological children had nice rooms and clothes to match, while the step-child had a urine-soaked bed with older, worn clothing and no other possessions.

"We were all talking about what was going on up there,” said Dominick Butindaro who lives a few doors down, “We see DEA and FBI taking stuff in and out and we didn't know what was going on."

It appears Beneke had married in April of this year before moving to Harford County from Hawaii, while her husband, who is also in the service, remained behind.

"Kids are nicely dressed... hair is all done up really nice,” said Carle, “No. I never would have imagined."

Along with her injuries, the 4-year-old's ribs were showing and she only weighed 28 pounds.

The stepmother is being held with no bond at the Harford County Detention

http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/cr...step-daughter-allegedly-burned-with-a-lighter
 
My two year old weighs 31 lbs. This poor baby girl. I can't handle this shit today. Sorry DD, I think my pregnancy hormones are getting to me today.
 
Fuck these people. Fuck all of them. Here I am desperately wanting a damn kid and I have cysty ovaries that will make it difficult when I feel comfortable to start trying, and these FUCKHEADS are abusing their babies or their partners babies and I'm desperately trying to not seem like a creeper when I see small children and my heart explodes and I start tearing up.

Fuck these people. With a ten foot, spiked pole.
 
All these stories of step parents abusing kids, what makes you, especially a mother, just turn on an innocent child like that because they are not your birth child, just what???? It makes me sick, just absolutely sick. I have a step daughter who will be 7 next week, she technically isnt my step daughter, she was the result of her dad (my ex) having an affair and knocking someone up. Ex and I tried to work it out for a while and in that time I raised that baby girl like she was my own (when he had his visitation), the first time I held her I said there is no way I could not love her, she is an innocent child, she didnt ask to be born (and she is my boys sister). Her dad and I called it quits and he ended up marrying her mom. We all get along great (my friends have told me I have a fairy tale divorce, lol). I still see her pretty regularly (she is coming over this weekend, throwing her an early birthday party). When I have told people about her and how she came to be in my life, a lot of people are like "you raised the baby that was the result of your husband having an affair??", yes yes I did/am. Again, she didnt ask for this, my boys didnt ask for this, all I want is for our children to have some sense of normalcy in an already fucked up situation. They are just kids!!!! The little girl in the story didnt ask to not have her mother around and to be put into the care of this fucking cunt, if you didnt want her, you shouldnt have taken her in, but abusing and neglecting her because what is probably some weird jealously thing. fuck her, fuck all the terrible step parents in this world. (sorry for the rant, was thinking about my baby girls b-day and got me thinking about her whole life and how she came to be in my life)
 
No wonder she was stealing food, she weighed 28 lbs. As for the pissing, well I suppose that would have something to do with the abuse. Stupid bitch couldn't even give the kid the basics to grow. Kid must've been scared and confused as to why she was targeted.
 
Fuck this bitch. Why do assholes do this? She may not be your child but she is your husbands and as such you should treat her as your own.
Just hypothetically speakin had the school not stepped in what would she have done when hubby was on his way home? People like this don't just stop what they are doing. There would have been evidence of abuse on this girl and I doubt daddy woulda bought that bullshit excuse of the "kids did it" either. Fuck this broad she better be glad the cops got to her before her hubby did otherwise I'm guessing this story would have had a different ending involving a shovel and a deep hole.
 
No wonder she was stealing food, she weighed 28 lbs. As for the pissing, well I suppose that would have something to do with the abuse.

I suspect the pissing had more to do with the bathroom being locked because the kid was caught drinking from the toilet.. if she wasn't allowed to go in a bathroom, she'd pee wherever she could, she's 4.

I also would not be surprised to find out she locked the kid in the bedroom.
 
Homeschooling, food rationing ( including locking fridge, cabinets), exercise punishments, alarms, bathroom use revoked ( no showers, bucket use only for voiding), tattered clothing, no personal items, use of the "Pearl Method" ....Ive got to say, that this is a very tired, very common occurrence. What I find amazing, is the level of support towards the offending adult(s). And the adults who witness this freaking bullshit, are ok with it. They see nothing wrong, and fully eat, spoonful by spoonful, the dog shit excuses the offender has about treatment of the kid(s). They are just as guilty.
 
Homeschooling, food rationing ( including locking fridge, cabinets), exercise punishments, alarms, bathroom use revoked ( no showers, bucket use only for voiding), tattered clothing, no personal items, use of the "Pearl Method" ....Ive got to say, that this is a very tired, very common occurrence. What I find amazing, is the level of support towards the offending adult(s). And the adults who witness this freaking bullshit, are ok with it. They see nothing wrong, and fully eat, spoonful by spoonful, the dog shit excuses the offender has about treatment of the kid(s). They are just as guilty.
That's just it.. the acceptance and approval support is coming from people who want to defend their own actions. No one wants to own up to the idea that they were raised wrong and that they are raising their children wrong. Everybody wants to be "right" when it comes to raising kids. I think that this is a valuable lesson for those who've lived through abuse to accept, that someone raised them wrong and that to repeat that treatment on their own kids makes them wrong too. It's a point I try to hammer home with my SIL.. stories she used to tell me about her stepmom would raise the hair on my neck, and I'd tell her that was wrong and she would defend her stepmom because she had trouble understanding that things could have been different. She's had to go through parenting classes since then herself, and it helped her understand that things didn't have to be the way they were when she was growing up and that adults make mistakes and do really fucked up shit becuase they are convinced they are doing it all "right". I think this kind of transference of guilt results in the support these abusers recieve, as well as a fear to acknowledge ones own mistakes.
 
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