They were skin and bones! Quite a few years had passed since they were adopted. Plenty of time to put on weight if they werent starved!
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Right they shouldn't have been getting thinner!
IMO
They were skin and bones! Quite a few years had passed since they were adopted. Plenty of time to put on weight if they werent starved!
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"DHS investigators note that Sarah is often away from the children for weeks or months at a time when Jennifer takes the six kids to music festivals. One of the family friends described Sarah as being "cold" to the kids parading them around for pictures, but not showing them affection."
http://www.koin.com/news/washington...egon-dhs-hart-family-investigation/1136867286
When JH and the kids were gone for weeks or months attending music festivals, where did they stay? Friends? Campgrounds? Hotels + festival entrance fees would get quite costly. Were they traveling with others attending or performing in the same festival circuit? If so, why didn't any of them notice or say anything when someone they stayed with for 2 weeks saw so much and reported it? The glowing comments about the family are so contradictory to what was happening. Weeks or months in close proximity to the festival regulars, JH's mask had to slip off sooner or later, one would think. MOO
Honestly, it wasn't until the pictures I saw today of the kids painting in the floor that I really thought they looked unhealthily skinny. They're pretty kids with big grins (Hannah not smiling wouldn't have alarmed me-my son almost never smiles in pictures and has looked put out since he was an infant), good-looking teeth, nice clothes, and healthy-looking skin. If I'd seen the other pictures out of context, without knowing that their parents were starving them or that there were any issues, I probably would not have had any red flags raised. I feel that looking at them now, with the information we have, definitely gives the images more meaning. I do feel like the doctor should have been alarmed at their weight, however, and he/she apparently was because they recommended further monitoring.
The momsters - good name. I'll use that too.
I know for a fact that children who live a tortured existence experience genuine joy when they get a reprieve. I saw that all the time at Hephzibah House. It must be a psychologically protective thing, but those rare days when we were paraded out and fed and photographed were the best days and we were all giddy, happy in spite of the knowledge that we would be returned to our torment when the event ended. The awful truth is that the let down effect on our keeper's moods after these events seemed to create more trouble for us following a fun day and we all knew this, but it did not dampen our enthusiasm in those precious moments of relative safety and normalcy.
Where is this in the report? I read it twice!?!?! Can you give me the page number? I know there's like 30 pages, I must be blind...D'oh! I read it as the (redacted) CPS worker who was with the DHS worker at the house visit. So many redacted names ... it's hard to keep all the (redacted) parties sorted. My mistake.
I wonder if there is such a thing as anorexia by proxy. “Morbidly obese” is how the young anorexia sufferer we know sees herself.
I wonder if there is such a thing as anorexia by proxy. “Morbidly obese” is how the young anorexia sufferer we know sees herself.
In the report one of the momsters says they're vegetarian so they're "slender." Are both the momsters vegetarians? Because one of them is not what I'd call slender!
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Where is this in the report? I read it twice!?!?! Can you give me the page number? I know there's like 30 pages, I must be blind...
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Thank you!! Yep, totally missed that both times I read it.
Even though that 30 page CPS document is very thoroughly documented, I wonder about the whole evaluation process. Like no requirements to produce homeschool registry, naturopathic physician contacts, dentist contacts, adoption paperwork that states the claims Jen made about their mental status.
I mean what happens if you just pull kids off of psychotropic drugs, or make a diagnosis about a child without a doctor? Oh, 'we don't believe it is true'. This answer on several kids. I am surprised that was acceptable.
I knew no one in school without their two front teeth. How was that acceptable?
And all under the height and weight chart - surely paperwork came with the kids when they were adopted?
I have to research but naturopathic physicians are licensed to practice in but a very few states, even though they have medical degrees... Think PA and CT are the two states in the northeast.
CPS was not able to connect the dots to the isolation these kids were suffering. They were not able to thread a timeline.
Isolation is one of the cruelest forms of abuse as we found out in the Turpin case.
In Jenn and Sarah Hart's last escape from CPS, I am sure they were well aware of that high profile case and the parallels. They weren't worried about the kids getting taken away, they knew they were going to prison. -Jmo
Jen was a college drop out. Probably awkward socially and a non conformist. Probably couldn't hack working for some one, so IMO she got the idea to get income by fostering/adopting children. Then she maybe she thought hey, I need more income so I can have a nicer home, then adopts the second set. IMO she really didnt like kids so IMO it was all about money, then control.
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I so agree.Honestly, when I was a teacher in MN but not by the Harts, we teachers always said a child would have to be near death in order for anything to happen. Parents have so much leeway it is sickening.
A couple of times, I went with other teachers who had the same children . Nothing.
It is not the fault if C PS. The laws are really limiting
BBM
That's another thing she lied about:
"Ms. J. Hart does not currently work, although she reports having a degree and background in education."
p 15, Oregon DHS report
https://www.scribd.com/embeds/37719...J3P2I7dtOJqmmeeiRQO&show_recommendations=true
"She stayed in school but left before graduating in 2002 when Gengler earned her degree."
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...st_to_her_drive_off_the_california_cliff.html
Yes, I am seeing how they are hamstrung by law, by the coaching of the kids, even by low weight and height but otherwise healthy.
But, what are the odds of five kids from two different bio families ALL being off the charts of H&W.
Or, what about the observation that these two horrible women were obviously very well fed.
Still, there was enough to evaluate them as "high risk". And no follow up?