One of the worst aspects to this story, and there are many, is that two of the children were adopted by the domestic partners, including the 8 year old found chained to the floor. I often wonder if some unstable people adopt/foster children in order to gain state/federal financial benefits….. horrible story.
CALIFORNIA – Three starving children — including one who was chained to the floor to prevent her from getting food — were found last month in the squalid home of a Northern California couple, authorities said.
All three — two boys and a girl — were taken into protective custody, and one was hospitalized, Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller said Friday.
Authorities discovered them in the Salinas, Calif., home on March 14 after two of the young people missed appointments, according to several published reports.
“It was a particularly heinous case,” Miller told the Monterey Herald. The children had “hardly eaten for months.”
The boys are 3 and 5 years old, and the girl is 8, authorities said, and they all exhibited bruises and signs of other physical as well as emotional abuse. (more…)