MIDWEST CITY, Oklahoma - Not a lot of info out on this one yet, but a 72-year-old foster mother has been accused of repeatedly branding her 9-year-old foster child as punishment for stealing. Chief Brandon Clabes, Midwest City Police Department, said “The foster mother accused him of stealing money from her. At that point she took this potato masher, heated it on the stove to where it was red hot & branded him.” But she didn’t do it once, she did it multiple times. Joycelyn Louis told the child to tell anyone who asked about the injuries that it was an accidental burn.  The boy suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns and is back in DHS custody. Police are waiting for a warrant for Louis’ arrest. Holy shit, got some video for ya after the jump: [Read more...]

ORLANDO, Florida – On Friday, housekeepers at the Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort hotel, found a 2-year-old girl and 4-year-old boy alone in a room in their diaper and underwear. They stuck around with them for a little bit before alerting security. After some time had passed, staff thought a call to the police was in order. Police and staff began trying to locate the couple they came with. They searched around the hotel, even trying to call the number left when the family checked in, but no one answered. Two hours later 49-year-old Stephen Simmons and 41-year-old Kimberly Simmons, the children’s foster parents, were located at the hotel’s pool with their 6-year-old nephew. Here’s the kicker – Kimberly Simmons is a counselor at a Michigan school and told deputies that this isn’t a one-time occurrence. [Read more...]

Chattanooga, Tenn. – That little girl you see above is Gracie Ann Trentham. A 3-year-old who was savagely raped and then murdered by a 14-year-old David Brandon Hammer, the son of Gracie’sGracie reviews foster mom. Hamilton County detectives charged the teen last week with felony murder by aggravated rape of a child and aggravated rape of a child. That first charge just makes me cringe, as the implications of it mean this girl died horribly. [Read more...]

Johnstown, PA - Prospective dad and woodwork hobbyist Christopher Ellis, 31, is all about the arts and crafts. He’s especially fond of testing his work on his almost-children, as reported by Johnstown police yesterday afternoon.

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Tennessee — Two foster teens,James Earl Garrett, 17, and Jeffery Byrd Johnson Jr., 15, are charged with killing their foster mother and her mother-in-law shortly after the new year. At around 1:00 or 2:00 am, Mary Clark, 38, and her mother-in-law, Gail Clark, 66, were shot execution style, possibly while they slept. The alleged shooters, Mary Clark’s foster children aged 15 and 16, called 911 around 4:00 am. Investigators found one body in a bedroom and the other in the living room. [Read more...]

A former state lawmaker was convicted of raping two former foster daughters during physical examinations that he claimed would help them sell their reproductive eggs. Yes, you read that correctly. This fat, disgusting bastard was a part of a program that provides foster care for young people who have no safe home to return to after completing time in juvenile reform programs. He told two of these girls that they could make thousands of dollars for selling their reproductive eggs. The examinations, some performed in a hotel suite, were to determine whether they were healthy enough to donate their eggs. Two of Klaudt's former foster daughters testified that [Read more...]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Judith Leekin, 62, had adopted eleven children from New York City’s foster care system between 1993 and 1996. She received as much as $2 million in child welfare payments as she starved, bound and abused them. Florida authorities said they located a 19-year-old man Monday who was among the 11 adopted by Leekin but had left the home two years ago. Police say Leekin was still collecting payments from the New York agency for his care.

“He had similar stories, similar scars and marks on his body from his wrists to his ankles where he alleges he was also handcuffed and tied to other people,” Port St. Lucie Police spokesman Robert Vega said Tuesday.

The case started on July 4 when an 18-year-old woman was found wandering in a grocery store in St. Petersburg. The woman told police Leekin had adopted her 13 years ago and abandoned her at the store that day. Eight other children and handicapped adults, ranging in age from 15 to 27, were found in Leekin’s home. All had scars on their wrists, and some had burns.

None appeared to have more than a fourth-grade education, not even the adults in their 20s. They told authorities they had never seen a doctor or a dentist and all were near starvation.

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