CA - Aarabella McCormack, 11, Murdered, 2 Siblings Abused and Tortured by Adoptive Caregivers, San Diego, Nov 2022

[Curious Me]

see above for correction!

There's that extra a. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[Curious Me]

More info than most articles.

THREE FAMILY MEMBERS ARRESTED FOR SUSPECTED ABUSE LEADING TO DEATH OF SPRING VALLEY GIRL, 11 | East County Magazine

www.eastcountymagazine.org

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[Gemmie]

The news article also had this video.

All three volunteered with police. Interesting.

Please forgive my formatting errors. I am on mobile.

Uh.... the adoptive mother was a crisis interventionist? WTH?? There was a crisis that needed intervention at her own house and from her own hands! smh

 

[Curious Me]

California megachurch volunteer charged with murder of her 11-year-old daughter

The mother and grandfather of an 11-year-old California girl who was allegedly tortured and starved for years have been arrested and charged with murder, while her grandmother faces abuse charges.

www.mercurynews.com

PICTURED: Church elder and her husband accused murdering daughter

Leticia McCormack, 49, and her husband Brian, a border patrol agent, were accused of murdering 11-year-old Aarabella McCormack, one of their three adopted daughters.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Leticia McCormack taught courses called “Kingdom Life Encounter” about how to model one’s life after Jesus at the Rock Church in San Diego, founded by former NFL player Miles McPherson, who is the pastor.
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McCormack had been ordained as an elder at another church under the Assemblies of God denomination. The ordination was transferred to the Rock in January 2022, according to the Rock Church. The church said she was not part of the paid staff and was not in a leadership role in regards to the church’s governance or operations.​

BBM & UBM

 

[Gemmie]

SBMFF

What an absolutely beautiful little girl. This is so heartbreaking.

RIP and soar high, little angel. No one can hurt you anymore.

 

[Gemmie]

They all sure looked happy in this pic. Even Aarabella isn't keeping her distance from her stepmom. I wonder why things suddenly went south? And you know, if you adopt kids and no longer want them, GIVE THEM UP!!! smh

Murder suspect Leticia McCormack, 49, seen with Arabella, her younger sisters and her husband, Brian McCormack, who has committed suicide.

 

[Curious Me]

More info than most articles.

THREE FAMILY MEMBERS ARRESTED FOR SUSPECTED ABUSE LEADING TO DEATH OF SPRING VALLEY GIRL, 11 | East County Magazine

www.eastcountymagazine.org

They all sure looked happy in this pic. Even Aarabella isn't keeping her distance from her stepmom. I wonder why things suddenly went south? And you know, if you adopt kids and no longer want them, GIVE THEM UP!!! smh

MOO-- Pictures like that can be deceiving. Dig deeper. It started after they were first fostered then adopted by these people. They had plenty of time to know whether they could handle adopting three young children. MOO, they thought they could control the children to act like they wanted them to act. The children were being controlled. They were afraid to not act happy. They were being starved, punished, and abused. The biological parents were concerned, as I understand it, but there was nothing they could do. On the news, the biological mother said she hates this pic of Aarabella because she is so thin. Look at her arms. IMO, she's being starved. Yet, she's smiling then too.
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Megachurch elder, parents charged in murder, torture of adopted daughter Arabella McCormack

Leticia McCormack, 49, was charged Monday with murder, three counts of torture and three counts of willful cruelty to a child in the death of Arabella McCormack, the San Diego County Sheriff’…

nypost.com

 

[Curious Me]

Looks like Adella Tom has been added a bail bond motion hearing - I received this in my email:
THE FOLLOWING EVENT(S) HAVE BEEN ADDED FOR CASE CE414848:
Bail Bond Motion scheduled for Dec 20 2022 1:30PM at the San Diego Superior Court, East County Division, East County Regional Center in Department 3.
from court site:
Defendant: Adella Juanita Tom Defense Counsel: Randy Wagner
Court No. CE414848
Date: 12/20/2022 Time: 01:30 PM Event: Bail Bond Motion
Location: San Diego Superior Court, East County Division, East County Regional Center, Dept. 3
link: Case Information, Search - San Diego County District Attorney

Just my own opinion. NO! JMO, but no, no, no. She looked at that starving little girl everyday and took part in the abuse of that sweet child. Read below, Aarabella died, and that adopted grandmother has blood on her hands too. No, let her stay behind bars.

Shocking Details Emerge in Adopted Girl's Child Abuse Death Investigation

A San Diego County judge says the child abuse charges facing a Spring Valley woman and her mother are so rare, heinous and callous the women are a danger to the public and must remain locked up. It marks the first time some of the details surrounding a child abuse death in August have been made...

www.nbcsandiego.com

Leticia McCormack and her mother Adella Tom physically abused McCormack's three adopted girls with paddles and sticks, deprived them of food and water, isolated them in their rooms, denied them access to bathrooms and forced them to participate in rigorous exercises, according to Pro. The actions of the defendants led to the death of 11-year-old Aarabella, who weighed just 48 pounds at the time of her death, less than her weight at age 5, Pro said. Aarabella was covered in bruises and had at least 15 separate bone fractures, according to Pro. Her two younger sisters survived but were hospitalized for three weeks. ​

 

[Curious Me]

Look at this beautiful child's arms. Read my above post. Aarabella suffered a long time before she died. I can't believe those people have any empathy at all. ​

 

[5W's]

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"Toys for Joy seeks to impact the lives of children by providing a toy and food for each family. Over the past 22 years, it has served over 166,900 children and their families and annually gives out 21,000 toys and 60,000 pounds of food."​

San Diego Rock Church Pastor Breaks Silence on Former Church Elder Charged With Child-Abuse Death

San Diego Rock Church Pastor Miles McPherson spoke out publicly on Sunday about the death of 11-year-old Aarabella McCormack. It was the first time he addressed the adopted child’s killing and the arrest of three former church members in connection with her death. That included her adoptive...

www.nbcsandiego.com

"...a church spokeswoman has been responsive to questions from NBC 7 Investigates over the last two months. She told us the Rock Church did not have any involvement in the fostering or adoption of Aarabella or her sisters."

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(Pastor Miles) McPherson then directed people to the church’s website, which posted this statement:

...For the Rock, our church has numerous volunteers who serve in a variety of ministries. The church relies on these volunteers to fulfill its mission of helping others in service to God. As a volunteer, Leticia had a limited capacity and was mostly focused on administrative coordination. The Rock Church routinely runs background checks on all of our volunteers with the most recent for Leticia conducted on 10/25/21. Nothing was provided in the background check information we received that would indicate a red flag.

Leticia was not a part of our paid staff, was not a pastor and did not serve in any official pastoral role for the church. Her ordination as an elder was completed at another church and transferred to the Rock in January 2022. She is no longer affiliated with the church and her ordination was suspended at the beginning of the investigation and has now been officially revoked.

A tragedy like this will rightly inspire intense reflection and soul searching by anyone who had interaction with this family. Despite numerous background checks, despite involvement with law enforcement both as a volunteer as well as a member with her husband as a Border Patrol officer, despite government agencies and the courts authorizing adoption and monitoring the children, despite all of this, clearly evil was hidden from obvious view.

BBM and UBM​

As I've said before I'm sure no one questioned them when when they made morally inept comments or suggestions. It was probably right there and no one thought anything of it. If someone questioned them "what do you mean by that?" Maybe we would get a truer picture of these so called humans. But no one wants themselves to look bad in front of others, or a myrad of reasons to be oblivious to what these so called people say.

 

[5W's]

More info than most articles.

THREE FAMILY MEMBERS ARRESTED FOR SUSPECTED ABUSE LEADING TO DEATH OF SPRING VALLEY GIRL, 11 | East County Magazine

www.eastcountymagazine.org

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Just WOW! Sued and the cases were dismissed. Horrendous! Maybe these three culprits joined this church as they knew they could do what they wanted without being questioned as things seem to be overlooked or lax.

 

[5W's]

Uh.... the adoptive mother was a crisis interventionist? WTH?? There was a crisis that needed intervention at her own house and from her own hands! smh

These types of people work right amongst us. No one questions their integrity when BS comes out of their mouths!!!!

 

[5W's]

They all sure looked happy in this pic. Even Aarabella isn't keeping her distance from her stepmom. I wonder why things suddenly went south? And you know, if you adopt kids and no longer want them, GIVE THEM UP!!! smh

Murder suspect Leticia McCormack, 49, seen with Arabella, her younger sisters and her husband, Brian McCormack, who has committed suicide.

No they were not happy children. As it started not long after adoption. I've posted on this picture before. My post alludes to the nuances of this photo, what may be happening behind the scenes. Secondly, people such as these monsters are everywhere. Its the vulnerable who we have to protect. But we have failed as we can see here and in many other cases such as this. WE FAILED!

 

[5W's]

The news article also had this video.

All three volunteered with police. Interesting.

Please forgive my formatting errors. I am on mobile.

This photo aggravates me a lot not just for the obvious reason of how disgustingly depraved these so called humans are but because they are Auxiallry Volunteer Officers. So what were they looking for more victims? The husband of this woman commits suicide when he's cornered! So what kill oneself but don't tell LE what he knows. Unless there's a reason why he doesn't want to say anything because perhaps he's culpable? Anyways my anger is also directed at another aspect of this horrible case its that these people are operating in cohesion. The father's wife is 49 years old? Okay, so that means obviously she's not the adoptive mother's biological parent as the adoptive mother is 49 years old also. So lets get this straight the step mother her husband met each other and knew one another's inclinations. His daughter the adoptive mother of these poor children knew her father and step mother's inclinations and likings whatever else, then the adoptive mother's husband who killed himself also knew these people's disgusting thinking. Like I've said before like people will flock together. This a perfect example of what I mean. Yet these things are overlooked and when something twisted words came out of these four's mouths people ignored what they said and let them just say it again no questions asked about demented comments. I think we have failed these children for sure as a society! Demented comments could be anything that may be morally repulsive taken as perhaps a joke or something like that. MOO.

 

[Curious Me]

This photo aggravates me a lot not just for the obvious reason of how disgustingly depraved these so called humans are but because they are Auxiallry Volunteer Officers....

I'm with you, that photo disgusts me. Those people knew how to appear like decent, responsible citizens. They had their acts down pat. They kept those children isolated a lot, so it was probably hard for anyone to catch on that they were abusing those children so horribly. ​

These types of people work right amongst us. No one questions their integrity when BS comes out of their mouths!!!!​

I can feel you really care @5W's, and how you, too, find it painful to learn about this case.

MOO-- Oh, some of us do confront them and question them. Please everyone, free yourself of being too polite to speak up when it's a gut feeling something is not right. JMO-- Something more people need to realize is con artists and people trying to lie right to your face rely on you and me being too polite to put them on the spot confronting them with their bs and lies. Also, forgiving, religious people make good marks for con artists. While you're worried about seeming impolite, they're gauging if you're an easy mark, if you're buying all they tell you. You can get burned from being too polite and too nice is what I found out. Please know this is MOO.

Remember-- Leticia McCormack taught courses called “Kingdom Life Encounter” about how to model one’s life after Jesus. She knew exactly how to talk the spiritual life. Like they say, even the Devil can cite Scripture for his own purpose.

Leticia probably believed her own lies of how "spiritually special and holy" she was by adopting those needy children and "teaching" them the right way to behave. It's heartbreaking what happened to those children in that home. All MOO. ​

 

[modesty blaise]

Very sad that these children were taken from their parents and placed in a hellhole.

 

[Niner]

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The father's wife is 49 years old?

Do you mean Stanley's wife Adella? She is 71 years old. Leticia is 49 years old.

 

[5W's]

Very sad that these children were taken from their parents and placed in a hellhole.

Yes it is sad but the only problem is if hese poor children weren't taken from the parents then other issues would have resulted,sadly. The parents had to relinquish custody due to substance abuse/mental health. These people weren't caught because they didn't have criminal records. But obviously they should have now in hindsight. So very sad. Authorities sadly didn't know when they placed these poor children with them afterwards it came to light as we know now.

 

[5W's]

Do you mean Stanley's wife Adella? She is 71 years old. Leticia is 49 years old.

Sorry my bad.

 

[Marg from Oz]

Look at this beautiful child's arms. Read my above post. Aarabella suffered a long time before she died. I can't believe those people have any empathy at all. ​

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The first thing I saw was her arm. How did nobody else notice it? I'm presuming she was going somewhere special seeing her dressed up. Her legs were probably just as thin. MOO.