California SUV crash victim said her moms were 'racist': records
Source: Reuters
U.S.APRIL 12, 2018 / 5:04 PM / UPDATED 35 MINUTES AGO
Reuters Staff
(Reuters) - A 16-year-old African-American girl told neighbors her white mothers were racist and that she was whipped with belts about six months before one of them is believed to have deliberately driven the family of eight off a California cliff, killing them all, Washington State records showed.
The girls 15-year-old brother also begged neighbors in March not to tell police his mothers were depriving the children of food as punishment because he feared the family would be split up, according to the records of allegations by the neighbors to the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
On March 26, Jennifer Hart, 38, is thought to have intentionally driven a sports utility vehicle carrying her partner Sarah and their six adopted black children off a California coastal cliff.
The Washington records show the mothers were under investigation for at least a third time in the last seven years for potential child abuse when they bolted from their Woodland, Washington State home on March 23.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-cliff-crash/california-suv-crash-victim-said-her-moms-were-racist-records-idUSKBN1HJ3HH?rpc=401&
leftieNanner
(15,199 posts)hlthe2b
(102,509 posts)RIP all. You deserved a much kinder life
Judi Lynn
(160,662 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)treated as if they are irrelevant.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)ailsagirl
(22,907 posts)yardwork
(61,772 posts)appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)jobs or educational background, maybe due to privacy issues.
This CNN piece from today covers how last NOVEMBER! the father of a neighbor called 911 after his daughter said the kids came over to her house, afraid of what was going on at home and that their parents might find out- with no clear follow up. So tragic.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/us/hart-family-911-call-signs/index.html
Judi Lynn
(160,662 posts)at one time. Even there, they were checked for child abuse. So damned sad:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5556271/Three-kids-missing-California-crash-killed-parents-siblings.html
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)Another recent article stated they'd received death threats at this newest home, even more sick and sad if true!
Judi Lynn
(160,662 posts)Such a horrendous aching left knowing those six children who so desperately needed HELP, not more pain, were just snuffed out.
One of the cruelest events we've seen in a long time.
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)for a young, large family. A movie or at least film in a couple years will bring out more, post investigation...
Never saw anything like this before, shocking.