Posted on 10/10/2014 7:15:23 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Mother of seven 'forced her adopted teenage daughter to eat dirty cat litter, bit her on the nose and started to sew her mouth shut'
A mother from Pennsylvania has been charged with assault and child endangerment after police say she forced her adopted teenage daughter to eat used cat litter and toothpaste, and started to sew her mouth shut with a needle.
Rana Cooper, 46, was arrested this week for what police are calling excessive punishment and neglect that also included forcing her 16-year-old daughter to scrape the inside of a toilet and eat what was on her finger.
According to police, the teen had to earn enough points for cleaning the house just so she could eat or use the bathroom.
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Someone sounds literally insane
What is wrong with people?
“According to the alleged victim, she was also repeatedly beaten by the family’s pet Dobermans”
They beat her with a dog? Oh PETA will be in on this one
Exactly.
I’ll withhold judgement on this one until the investigation is done. The report said that the mother submitted to a polygraph, but they did not say what the results were. None of the other children report abuse and the son absolutely says that none of it happened.
Wouldn’t be the first time that a teenager has lied.
But sometimes people are crazy.
Again, I’ll not jump on the lynching until it’s investigated properly.
Lesbian?
Seriously how well do they screen adoptive parents these days?
I cannot answer that. It could also be that the young girl doesn’t like her adoptive family and is trying to get out. It could be that she was coached by others.
I really have zero knowledge of this case but if the adoptive mother is guilty, she should spend a long time in prison.
Adopted older kids have huge issues and sometimes mental illness as well as sociopathic and other antisocial tendencies.
I don’t think I would try to pass judgment here.
You are preaching to the choir here about adopted older children being mental cases. I have to figure though that CPS would not have pulled her and that charges would not have been drawn if they did not really believe something happened. I am like you I don’t know what but something happened, or else CPS does not like to take kids. I know every one thinks they do but in truth its a lot of paperwork and a lot of time. Much easier to leave the kid at home if it’s a false alarm.
I will say this, if the kid is mentally ill then why did the parents not seek out that kind of treatment for her? Think about it something like this did not come on over night they saw signs. I’m not talking about a one hour visit to a shrink I’m talking about a trip to the Nervous Hospital. If this kid is making this up then this kid is very sick.
They didn’t screen them that well years ago. I was adopted by a paranoid alcoholic, and a neighbor adoptee was sexually abused by her adopted father.
My mother was sneaky with her physical abuse. Nobody ever saw her hit me, nobody saw her pull my hair or dig bobby pins into my scalp. She rationed what I was allowed to eat, so I spent my teens years especially perpetually hungry.
It’s a myth that adoptive families are carefully screened.
I might add that if the parents knew or suspected she was mentally ill and did not get her treatment then yes CPS should take her. Not getting her medical help is abuse.
There are only very definitive guidelines for admission and none for lying and other behavioral problems. Easy to say get help, hard to have it happen.
see last post.
The kid may just be a liar. It could be that the kid didn’t get her way. I don’t really know and I certainly won’t proclaim to be an expert of children.
The other children in the household should help them get to the truth. And if the mother is guilty, she deserves to be in prison for a long time.
I’m sure “lying” or “telling tall tales” was not this child’s only trouble. Let’s assume for five seconds that is what she was doing. Then that is not all she was doing. I know she was “acting out” and very possibly “violent” to herself and others. I could go on and on but you get the picture. Most parents when they say they “can’t get help” it means they can’t “get their insurance to pay for it”. Then we have this happen.
Too often, defenseless children are used as a way to collect more welfare. They are treated worse than criminals. Every child so abused is a casualty of government dysfunction.
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I am so sorry you were treated that way.
I empathize with your past. Myself I choose not to repeat or perpetuate. ;) (I was not adopted), but was adopted by my best friends family over forty years ago. I hope you have found life ties that bring out the best in you too!
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