State may have missed chance to save girl found dead in truck
BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ AND CAROL MARBIN MILLER
dmoskovitz@MiamiHerald.com
According to the report, Nubia had been suffering from "uncontrollable'' hunger, and had been stealing food. The girl had become very thin, and was losing her hair. She also was observed to be "nervous'' and "jittery.''
Though Nubia suffered from a medical condition - sources say it involved the girl's hormones - there was no documentation in the girl's file that she had seen a doctor for the concerns raised in June, a source said.
On Feb. 10, DCF received a report from a teacher that Nubia and her fraternal twin brother, Victor, age 10, were being bound by their hands and feet and made to stand in the bathtub. That day, an investigator tried to locate the children, but was told by their adoptive mother, Carmen Barahona, that she and her husband, Jorge Barahona, were separated, and that he - not her - had custody of the twins. However, a report issued later suggested that Carmen Barahona was "implicated'' in Nubia's disappearance. An investigator was told Carmen knew the whereabouts of Jorge and the children
The roots of the tragedy that unfolded on Monday apparently began the previous week when the Barahona's granddaughter - who stayed with the couple often after school - disclosed to a therapist that terrible things were happening in her grandparents' home, a source told The Miami Herald.
The granddaughter told her therapist that she had seen the two adoptive twins bound by the hands and feet and forced to stay in the bathroom. The little girl told her therapist she wanted to open her "piggy bank'' so she could find the money to rescue the twins.
A record of the allegations said the grandmother, Carmen, called the alleged abuse "a family secret'' that was "just between us.''
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/16/2069848/police-father-in-abuse-case-claims.html#
So it was the granddaughter that reported the abuse and her therapist called the hotline. AND the mother did know - "A FAMILY SECRET" my a$$!!!
I have to sit on my hands here for a few. I'm just so :furious:
I say fry both of these "pond scum" creatures.