
So, not an accident. As we speculated, abusive home. I am so glad Natalie's siblings are now out of there, alive. Just looking at Crystina's face and knowing that hateful mug was the last little Natalie saw makes me so angry. Why do people adopt children if they don't like children? Was it always about the money and benefits for Crystina? How do you go to all the trouble of adopting three siblings and then proceed "punish" them in such a manner? Punishment for what? Being children?
Natalie, your sisters are safe now sweetpea.
https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article300409524.html
‘Please do not make us get in the boxes’: Court doc details death of adopted girl buried in Rose Hill
(I can't read it because it requires a subscription, if any of our members have a subscription can they paraphrase the contents? TIA)
Before relinquishing custody to the state, Helm says she remembers spending lots of time in parks in Salina with her daughters. She remembers that time fondly.
Biological mother of girl buried in Rose Hill speaks out
Rose Hill police say they were initially called to the home on Sept. 10, 2024, because Crystina was suicidal. She told police one of her daughters was a danger to others and claimed the child had choked another child, leading to her death.
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“Evidence obtained through testimony of family members, and corroborated through Crystina’s own text messages show a several year history of abuse. These abuses were mental, as well as physical, and manifested in the segregation of the children from outside world, each other, and other members of the home. Crystina admits to starving the children in order to gain their compliance, using food as a weapon. Handwritten notes, corroborated by testimony of social workers, show that Crystina was fabricating medical ailments against some or all of her foster children in order to prescribe medications to them and increase her per diem stipend per child.”
Arrest affidavit details alleged abuse of child buried in Rose Hill yard
I take small satisfaction that it was Crystina herself that led to her own undoing. It appears she was the adult in the home having a mental health crisis and when responders arrived she told them about Natalie and attempted to blame one of her siblings for Natalie's death. MOO, she knew her crime was about to be uncovered and only then did she become "suicidal". Not from guilt or any sense of wrongdoing, but because she saw the consequences of her own hideous actions coming at her like a freight train.