I don't fucking believe this!
Oct. 26th, 2003 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unclejimboOh please, give these bastards to me...
DYFS fails 4 starving children
Camden County couple arrested, 5 state workers suspended in case
Sunday, October 26, 2003
BY SUSAN K. LIVIO AND MARK MUELLER
Star-Ledger Staff
In what a prosecutor called the most horrific case of child neglect he's ever seen, a Camden County couple has been charged with starving four of their adopted children over several years, leaving them so emaciated and stunted that authorities initially mistook a 19-year-old for a boy of 10.
The discovery of the alleged abuse in Collingswood, a middle-class community bordering Camden, marks a stunning new blow to the state's troubled Division of Youth and Family Services, which approved the boys' adoptions and which has been in close contact with the family. A caseworker had visited the home 38 times in the past two years.
The subsequent investigation found that the Jacksons locked up the kitchen of their Victorian home, allowing the boys only small servings of oatmeal and pancake batter, Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi said.
Two of the boys told investigators they sometimes sated their hunger by eating pieces of wallboard and insulation. One boy gnawed on a window sill for sustenance.
This is so fucked up I am at a loss for words...
DYFS fails 4 starving children
Camden County couple arrested, 5 state workers suspended in case
Sunday, October 26, 2003
BY SUSAN K. LIVIO AND MARK MUELLER
Star-Ledger Staff
In what a prosecutor called the most horrific case of child neglect he's ever seen, a Camden County couple has been charged with starving four of their adopted children over several years, leaving them so emaciated and stunted that authorities initially mistook a 19-year-old for a boy of 10.
The discovery of the alleged abuse in Collingswood, a middle-class community bordering Camden, marks a stunning new blow to the state's troubled Division of Youth and Family Services, which approved the boys' adoptions and which has been in close contact with the family. A caseworker had visited the home 38 times in the past two years.
The subsequent investigation found that the Jacksons locked up the kitchen of their Victorian home, allowing the boys only small servings of oatmeal and pancake batter, Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi said.
Two of the boys told investigators they sometimes sated their hunger by eating pieces of wallboard and insulation. One boy gnawed on a window sill for sustenance.
This is so fucked up I am at a loss for words...
