I just wanted to point out (sorry if already done and I have missed it!), how young the kids were when they were first brought into the Hart home. I realize that even at a very young age, kids can already be very damaged when they arrive into foster care, but seems like the Harts would not have been able to blame eating out of the garbage on
all of the childrens' pasts (if in fact all of them were even doing that?)? I was kind of surprised when I determined their approx ages upon arrival into the Hart home, because of how JH had apparently presented the children as so damaged and disabled for life? The most surprising one to me is Hannah, at only 3 when she arrived.
It's unclear to me (does anyone else here on the thread know?) when exactly Devonte and his siblings came into the Hart home. The kids were removed from their aunt in Dec2006 and put into foster care, but I haven't found an article which elaborates as to whether they were placed right away into the Hart home. It was for sure sometime between December 2006 when they were removed from their aunt and September 2008 (when there was reported child abuse of Hannah while living in the Hart home). This linked article states that Devonte's fam had been in the Harts' care for 7 years at time of writing in November 2014, so that would take it back to 2007 if that was accurate.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20150627182651/http:/papertrail.co.nz/meet-devonte-little-boy-big-heart/)
Abigail (14)-according to Harts' first foster child, 'Lee', this child
would've been practically a newborn? when she arrived into the Hart home in spring 2005 (
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...rtbreak-though-not-the-way-some-might-expect/)
Hannah (16-dob Feb 25/02)-
would've only been 3 in spring 2005 when came into Hart home
Sierra (13-dob Apr20/05)(Devonte's sister)(was for sure living in the Hart home at the very latest, by September2008)-
would've only been 3.5 or younger when came into Hart home
Jeremiah: 14 (Devonte's brother) -
would've been only 4 or younger when came into Hart home (was for sure living in the Hart home by September2008)
Devonte: 15.5-dob Oct24/02)-
would've been 5 or younger when arrived into the Hart home (was for sure living in the Hart home by September2008)
Markis: 19-
would've been 6 when came into the Hart home in spring 2005)
Note: we know it was spring 2005 when the first set of kids came into the home because of Lee's story.