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Hart Family, Which Drove Off Cliff, Hid Dark Home Life From View
New York Times ^ | APRIL 27, 2018 | MATT STEVENS

Posted on 04/27/2018 4:36:52 AM PDT by reaganaut1

After Jennifer Hart drunkenly drove a sport utility vehicle straight off a 100-foot cliff on the Northern California coast late last month, taking her life and those of her wife and their adopted children, at least two searches began.

One was for the missing bodies; another was for answers. How, those who knew the Harts wondered, could a family that looked so happy and normal in photos have hidden such a dark life from public view?

Dozens of pages of reports released this week by child-welfare officials offer some clues. Taken together they paint a portrait of a pair of mothers — one dictatorial and eccentric, the other constantly working and seldom home — who doled out cruel punishments and perennially withheld food from their six children.

In the Hart household, any act of insubordination could be severely punished. The children knew this all too well.

“They are like trained robots,” one worried caller told the authorities, according to the newly released documents, which describe the family’s dynamics.

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In the weeks since the crash, searchers have fanned out along the Pacific coastline looking for the bodies. They have found those of the parents — Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 38 — and four of their six children: Markis, 19; Jeremiah, 14; Abigail, 14; and Ciera, 12.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualadoption; jenniferhart; lesbians
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There have been many articles claiming that lesbian couples are better parents. Not in this case. I wonder if social workers held back because they did not want to be accused of "homophobia".
1 posted on 04/27/2018 4:36:52 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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There was no family. There was a dead bastardized collection of people


2 posted on 04/27/2018 4:39:23 AM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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Excellent description / definition.


3 posted on 04/27/2018 4:40:32 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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paywall


4 posted on 04/27/2018 4:45:16 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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sick bitches


5 posted on 04/27/2018 4:45:40 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Obviously that was the reason. These women discarded an inconvenient foster kid as soon as they got ahold of their first set of black trophies. Then they spent their days virtue-signaling, even to the point of forcing their incarcerated charges to carry around “Love Wins” signs to festivals and protests. When the kids tried to escape, the social workers turned a blind eye to their misery. Even after the mass murder, their benighted leftist friends were posting tributes to their “love.”


6 posted on 04/27/2018 4:45:46 AM PDT by madprof98
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It makes you wonder if the “famous photo” of Devonte Hart hugging the policeman wasn’t, as the liberals like to say, “a cry for help”.


7 posted on 04/27/2018 4:47:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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I wonder if social workers held back because they did not want to be accused of "homophobia."

Yes.

8 posted on 04/27/2018 4:50:17 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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“How, those who knew the Harts wondered, could a family that looked so happy and normal in photos have hidden such a dark life from public view?” Sorry a family headed by two lesbians is not normal


9 posted on 04/27/2018 4:52:44 AM PDT by sueuprising (The best of it is, God is with us-John Wesley)
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CPS knew this and did nothing. Instead of CHILD Protective Services they were LPS. LESBIAN Protective Services.


10 posted on 04/27/2018 4:54:39 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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How the hell did they get approved as adoptive parents? What's wrong with the state. Can't they say no?

Homophobia is just another made up word. Why do I have to agree with the state? I don't!!

11 posted on 04/27/2018 4:57:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“Taken together they paint a portrait of a pair of mothers”

That is in no way “normal”.


12 posted on 04/27/2018 4:58:09 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To call this assemblage of mental illness a “family” is an affront to 4,000 years of civilization.


13 posted on 04/27/2018 4:58:11 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Idiocracy is here, and it votes democrat.)
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To: sueuprising

A family headed by two lesbians is not a family.


14 posted on 04/27/2018 4:59:12 AM PDT by nickedknack
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"Dozens of pages of reports released this week by child-welfare officials offer some clues. Taken together they paint a portrait of a pair of mothers — one dictatorial and eccentric, the other constantly working and seldom home — who doled out cruel punishments and perennially withheld food from their six children.

In the Hart household, any act of insubordination could be severely punished. The children knew this all too well.".....

The documents released this week show that child-welfare officials in Minnesota, Oregon and Washington State — three states where the Harts lived during the past seven years — knew of reported abuse, but, in one case, apparently stepped aside after completing their assessment; could not gather enough evidence to corroborate the claims of neglect in another; and, in a third case, learned of the allegations too late.

If the authorities knew this, why did they let them have children? Oh that's right... Their lesbians... Lesbians know how to bring up children. Just ask Rosie O'Donnel.

15 posted on 04/27/2018 5:00:41 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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I’ve read different pieces describing both women. My guess is that both were obsessive-compulsive in nature, suffering from several different mental issues, and this family-obsession was felt at some point would bring them satisfaction. In the end, it just deepened their little world.

Oddly, social workers appear to have given more than enough rope to ‘hang’ themselves. They wanted the women to succeed, even when they could not.


16 posted on 04/27/2018 5:02:24 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Uh.................

........same-sex “marriage”???

Stop right THERE!


17 posted on 04/27/2018 5:04:45 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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Bernie Babies =

Burn Your Babies

18 posted on 04/27/2018 5:06:53 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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Basically the home was a mini “Jonestown.”

Instead of Kool-Aid, they used a car.


19 posted on 04/27/2018 5:11:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“Sorry a family headed by two lesbians is not normal”

This.


20 posted on 04/27/2018 5:12:11 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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