When she was 12, her parents divorced. She stayed with her mom and siblings in the blue house where she grew up.
When Jennifer asked to move in at 14, he drove home from work sites every day, sometimes hundreds of miles. The arrangement worked for a while, he said. But Jennifer started breaking the rules in the hours between school and his arrival home. He told her she had to move back to her mothers house.
I thought maybe when she got older she would understand, he said.
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She also wrote more than once about the abusive world that her children had left behind. She described Devontes birth and early childhood in 2012. Born into a world of drugs (pumping through his newly born body), weapons and extreme poverty, one would assume his future was bleak. ... By the time he was 4, he had smoked, consumed alcohol, handled guns, been shot at and suffered severe abuse and neglect.
Attorney Shonda Jones, who represented the aunt, said Harts account was false. Those are all lies, that did not happen. Devonte was not born on drugs. Ive never heard anything about being shot at or anything like that.
But a blogger noticed Jen Harts online claims about her childs horrific start in life in 2014 and incredible turnaround. She published it in a New Zealand outlet, then Huffington Post, all before his hug photo went viral.
The adoptive mother fed a lie to the public, Jones said. She fed into a stereotype that reinforced other peoples racism.
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After the photo of Devonte and the police officer went viral, she said reporters staked out the family home for weeks. Their mailbox filled with positive messages from people worldwide,
she wrote on Facebook. Kim Kardashian = #breaktheinternet. Devonte Hart = #healtheinternet, she wrote.
She attended two post-election rallies with her children and said people responded with questions about why she would put her kids in danger.
Soon after, she disappeared from Facebook for six months. She changed her phone. The family moved to Washington.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...st_to_her_drive_off_the_california_cliff.html
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A few things stand out from the latest article in OregonLive.
1.
Bbm: Rejection. Original wound. Child of divorce at 12 years old, a pivotal turning point in adolescence. She never came to healing even in severing contact with her own family. And in the darkness of that wound never addressed she killed her adolescent children.
2. Pathological liar?
Bbm: -Really struck by the power of Atty Jone's statement. What did the spin of this yarn serve? And how it is juxtaposed with her choices to directly engage (not protect) these children in one of the most heated and divisive times in this country. These politically charged events serve what purpose? Her own injustice?
3.
Bbm: The hashtags. The superficiality of fame, of her own importance living through Devonte's short lived fame. And she used him. By the time the post election rallies came around and emotions were really heated, people started to question her as a parent. She cut everyone off.
I'm thinking it is J&S that were hitting the breaking point. Kids in adolescence, Jen hits that crucial point where her own family fell apart. Depression, self medication, out of control? No way out? How do they handle a divorce? Each stressed to the max in different ways.
Article states all the kids went to CT for J&S marriage. This means Jen was the one who adopted the children? But after they married, both are legally responsible for them? Therefore both could be facing a lifetime in prison if CPS &LE uncovered the truth. This is why I think they were both in on the decision to end it the way they did.
