My husband told me about the link to this story. This story gives foster parents a bad name.



Before you go to the story, let me warn you, the descriptions and photos are horrific. I have seen and heard many stories of child abuse. This one ranks up there with Dave Pelzer’s story.

With that warning, here are some excerpts.

Eunice Spry, 62, routinely beat, abused and starved the youngsters in her care over a 19 year period. The devout Jehovah's Witness forced sticks down their throats and made them eat their own vomit and rat excrement.

As punishment for misbehaving, she would beat them on the soles of their feet and force them to drink washing up liquid and bleach.

Victim C, now 18, described how his foster mother held his hand down on a hot electric hob until it was left looking like a "gooey mess".

He said he had been force-fed so much washing up liquid by Spry that he could now differentiate between the brands on taste alone.

Victim A was involved in a serious traffic accident in 2000. Doctors told the girl, who suffered horrific injuries, that she would be confined to a wheelchair for up to six months after the crash.

But medical experts who examined her soon found there was no physical reason why she could not walk.

Spry refused a series of tests to find out what was behind the girl's mysterious condition and deliberately hindered her recuperation in a cynical bid to maximize the compensation payout she could get from insurers.

The descriptions and the photos continue to get worse from here. This defies description.

There is nothing about this woman's face that show's anything but anger and hate. I don't see any remorse anywhere.

I understand the need to report this story. Where I have a problem, is when foster and adoptive parents get lumped together and assume that we ALL treat our children like this.

I hope there are arrangements made for serious medical and psychological treatment for these young adults.

I don’t know what else to say.

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