Jason Strickland nearly beat his 11-year old stepdaughter, Haleigh Poutre, to death. He and his wife adopted Haleigh when she was five after her mother’s boyfriend was (apparently falsely) accused of molesting the little girl. Massachusetts social workers pressured Allison, Haleigh’s mom, to give her up for adoption, even threatening to take her unborn child from her immediately after birth if she refused. Allison’s sister, Holli Strickland and her husband adopted Haleigh. Six short years later, after DSS workers dismissed a series of complaints about onoging abuse, Haleigh lay in a hospital bed totally dependent on machines in what doctors said was a permanent and irreversible persistent vegetative state, caused by the final beating in a string of ongoing abuse by her adoptive parents...
Roundup: Parent of the Year Contenders, part 1 January 2006
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