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'Drop-kicked and starved to death': Adoptive family are charged with torturing an Iowa girl, 16,....
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 1, 2017 | Associated Press and Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com

Posted on 06/01/2017 6:40:05 PM PDT by Morgana

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To: kelly4c

They weren’t messed up in the head.....they knew what they were doing to this girl. I imagine she was more than beat and starved...

I no longer by the label these are mental cases or insane.....which is used as an excuse for crimes against others. They obviously knew what eating was all about and deliberately withheld food from this girl. That’s a decision someone makes and has nothing to do with mental illness.....it has to do with being cruel and abusive to another individual period to the point of death.....therefore it’s murder...and they all should be charged with such.


61 posted on 06/02/2017 9:54:40 AM PDT by caww
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To: sport

I am for the death penalty in such cases....murder someone..you die...period.


62 posted on 06/02/2017 9:59:28 AM PDT by caww
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To: Morgana

What they did was ‘murder by starvation’.....56 pounds at the time of death speaks for itself. Physical and emotional abuse deprived her of fending for herself in every way. ..and all this by every member of the family. She had no chance whatsoever of freeing herself from these monsters.


63 posted on 06/02/2017 10:06:07 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Me too.


64 posted on 06/02/2017 10:10:11 AM PDT by sport
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To: PapaBear3625

“My big question: wasn’t the girl in school up until last month? Did the school do anything?”

Apparently, she was being homeschooled and if she was ever in a public school, the school would have no criminal responsibility.


65 posted on 06/02/2017 12:11:20 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: caww

“I am for the death penalty in such cases....murder someone..you die...period.”

There are a plethora of other charges, but thus far, this is not a murder case.


66 posted on 06/02/2017 12:21:49 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1

Saying this is not a case for murder does not mean it wasn’t murder. How our court system determines this is of no consequence to me....I see it as murdering this girl.


67 posted on 06/02/2017 12:26:31 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

It looks like the girl was killed or at least neglected and abused to the point to where she died.

However, the kidnapping charges and the cousin admitting to denying her food and water in pretty damn damning.

But like I indicated before, I think the defense is going to center around the victim being self-abusive, Anorexic and or Bulimic.

Even of that is the case, there is major neglect and failure to seek medical treatment.

And with five defendants, at least one will try to save their own skin. Cousin Josie may be in some deep sh1t but she looks nuts and probably has some serious drug issues.


68 posted on 06/02/2017 12:41:02 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: I_be_tc

We all need to join soon and as a society reject the asylum. You can’t pick up the news at all these days without reading something outrageous.

All evil needs to prevail is for good men to stand by and do nothing.


69 posted on 06/03/2017 4:45:30 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: SirLurkedalot

I can stomach a lot usually. Overseas I saw a lot of crazy things, but what hits me in the stomach is when the innocent kids are targeted. Nothing will flip the switch faster than someone trying to or actually harming children.

After the switch goes, I hope God forgives me for what comes next.


70 posted on 06/03/2017 4:48:18 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Timpanagos1

Well my point is they caused her to be unable to defend herself on pretty much every level.

It would be interesting to know if or not her brother “drop kicking” her down the stairs was what took her life in the end. I can’t recall just now if they said one way or the other.


71 posted on 06/03/2017 5:57:04 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

“It would be interesting to know if or not her brother “drop kicking” her down the stairs was what took her life in the end.”

The brother probably has the mind of animal torturing, child molestimg, axe murderer. But, from what I have read, his kicking her down the stairs did not kill her.

I wish I could say the brother will never walk the streets again, but hopefully he will be in a cage for more than 20 years.

That guy scares me. The other are just evil human filth.

But human filth that has a defense.


72 posted on 06/03/2017 6:13:58 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1

Personally I wouldn’t have any issue if abusers were hung. Our nation stopped protecting children long ago.....it’s like a free for all today in how children are treated.


73 posted on 06/03/2017 6:18:53 PM PDT by caww
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

You can imagine what the drop kicking son looks like.


74 posted on 06/03/2017 6:29:22 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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