Abused and murdered adoptees and foster children

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Court denies new trial for Food Network contestant who killed foster child 28 May 2025
'He’s not breathing': Adoptive sister speaks about dismembering brother's body 14 May 2025
Mom accused of chaining autistic son to cot, starving him rejects plea deal 25 April 2025
Trial for Fayetteville mother accused of murdering children likely won't happen until 2027 18 April 2025
Miami-Dade nurse guilty of murder, child abuse in death of foster child she later adopted 15 April 2025
Trial begins for Miami-Dade nurse accused in adoptive daughter's death 10 April 2025
As a form of punishment’: 8-year-old forced to repeatedly jump on 110-degree trampoline without water until she died of dehydration 10 March 2025
Social worker killed adopted daughter, ‘punched and slapped’ child for ’30 minutes’: Police 10 March 2025
Grand jury indicts Spring Valley family in child abuse death 26 February 2025
Adoptive parents arrested for murder, torture in death of 6-year-old Rose Hill girl 3 February 2025
Northwest Indiana foster mom sentenced to 5 years in prison for death of 10-year-old boy 18 January 2025
Hernando mother remains worried about 12-year-old daughter's whereabouts after other daughter's murder 27 November 2024
Moreno Valley parents arrested in death of 10-year-old adopted son 23 November 2024
Former DCF worker locked up daughter in garage and ‘severely abused’ the teen before killing her, cops say 17 November 2024
Biological mother of girl buried in Rose Hill speaks out 27 September 2024
Blount County foster parents charged in 18-month-old’s death are wrongly accused, lawyers say 8 August 2024
Blake and London Deven both dead, adoptive mother charged with murder, abuse: Police 28 June 2024
10-year-old Porter County foster child’s death ruled a homicide 6 June 2024
Pleegouders zwaargewond meisje (10) opgepakt voor poging tot doodslag 27 May 2024
Mother, stepfather sentenced to 15 years in prison for horrific death of 6-year-old son 16 May 2024
‘I’m appalled at what I’ve heard here today’ | Couple pleads guilty in Knox, Roane County child abuse cases 13 May 2024
Davenport woman accused in ‘horrible’ beating death of 4-year-old boy 8 May 2024
'Justice for J.J.': Adoptive mother and man indicted in 16-year-old's death 16 April 2024
Police release bodycam video showing Pammy Maye’s hospital room confession 12 April 2024
Police release bodycam video showing Pammy Maye’s hospital room confession 12 April 2024
Friends of murdered mom adopting her kids 10 years later 19 March 2024
20-year-old man criminally charged in death of adopted sister in Rock County 15 March 2024
Toddler's family speaks as new court docs reveal disturbing details on death 7 March 2024
Family alleges child killed in Oildale was under foster care at time of death 1 March 2024
Jorge Barahona, charged in 2011 twin murder-abuse case, incompetent to stand trial 1 March 2024
Prospective adoptive parents charged with first-degree murder of child in Burlington 1 March 2024
'Forced to eat dog food': Wyoming couple accused of torturing adopted children 24 February 2024
Wyoming Police: Children endured decade of torture, abuse inside adoptive parents' home 23 February 2024
Zahra Ghulami: Father jailed for life for toddler's murder 16 February 2024
Legal Guardians Accused Of 'Prolonged Abuse' In 10-Year-Old's Death 10 February 2024
Local News DA files murder, torture charges against Roseville parents in adopted son's death 9 February 2024
PICTURED: MOTHER, 48, WHO WAS ‘KILLED BY THE TEENAGE SONS SHE ADOPTED FROM RUSSIA’ – AS YOUNGEST SUSPECT, 13, WILL FACE NO CHARGES 9 February 2024
Waimanalo couple accused of murder retain parental rights 6 February 2024
Woman sentenced for killing 5-year-old adopted son in Winston-Salem; examiner said injuries not consistent with accidental trauma 30 January 2024
Adoptive parents sentenced in starving death of Washington teen 12 December 2023
Adoptive parents sentenced in starving death of Washington teen 12 December 2023
Parents Who Killed Son They Adopted From China Are Sentenced 1 December 2023
Casey Parsons, convicted of killing adopted daughter Erica Parsons, out of federal custody: Records 27 November 2023
Mother, 39, is found guilty of murdering her adopted baby daughter more than a decade after child's death 9 November 2023
Vancouver couple pleads not guilty to adopted son’s death 17 October 2023
Cal City couple receives life sentences in case missing adopted children 29 September 2023
Man pleads guilty to involvement in murder of 8-year-old girl, agrees to testify against child’s mother 29 September 2023
Adoptive parents get life terms in prison for murder of Orrin West 28 September 2023
'Abused' by American Foster Mom, Woman Searches for Birth Family in Lucknow 26 September 2023
REVEALED: How 'caring' Christian couple welcomed Ukrainian orphan Dima Tower into their family with holidays, birthday parties and game nights - before he 'slaughtered them to death and lay their bodies head-to-head in blood spattered home' 7 September 2023
No more bruises, we need them to heal’: Minister’s wife gets max sentence for lying about husband abusing foster kids and beating 4-year-old to death 26 August 2023
Man indicted for murder of autistic adopted son 10 August 2023
Tortured by 'mom and dad': Boy, five, died after his brain was 'obliterated by couple who adopted him then beat him' - and who then launched a brazen GoFundMe after 'killing' youngster 31 July 2023
Isabella Kalua officially declared dead, her body remains missing 29 July 2023
Local News Homicide charges brought against adoptive parents in death of 5-year-old boy 28 July 2023
Fatal failures: What happened in the final hours of Ja'Ceon Terry's life 19 July 2023
Man handed life term for rape & murder of adopted daughter (5) 16 July 2023
Mystery deepens as child adopted illegally dies 16 July 2023
Leiland-James Corkill: Inquest to probe placement with killer mum 29 June 2023
Woman sentenced for life for killing adopted child 29 June 2023
'We Were Once a Family' explores flaws in foster, adoption systems and 6 children's resulting deaths 11 April 2023
Former US intel director's daughter gets 35 years for murder 1 April 2023
Essonne: Sentenced to 12 years in prison for having attempted to murder his adopted daughter with an ax 23 March 2023
79 children died in specialised adoption agencies from April-December 2022 16 March 2023
Was Delias fatally abused by foster mother? "I never wanted to hurt him" 14 March 2023
Man Sexually Assaults, Kills 4-Year-Old Adopted Daughter: Ghaziabad Cops 14 March 2023
Spring mom's bond raised to $300K months after 7-year-old son's body found in washing machine 2 March 2023
Couple torture adopted child to death, receive life sentence in Jordan 23 February 2023
4-Year-Old Dies After Being Subjected to Exorcism and Other Abuse by Adoptive Parents, Authorities Say 27 January 2023
Family accused of ‘exorcisms,’ food restriction before 4-year-old died in Surry County, warrants reveal 25 January 2023
California megachurch elder and her parents charged with murder, torture of adopted 11-year-old daughter 11 November 2022
Dent County woman receives life sentence behind bars for the starvation death of her adopted child 16 October 2022
Vaishali murder: Adopted minor daughter, her friend apprehended 30 September 2022
North Dakota woman sentenced to life in prison for death of foster child 9 August 2022
Missing 7-year-old adopted boy found dead inside washing machine 29 July 2022
Indore: Woman inflicts burns on nine-year-old adopted daughter as punishment for bedwetting, booked 25 July 2022
UP: Woman Burns Adopted Daughter With Hot Oil 14 July 2022
Food Network winner who killed foster daughter sentenced to life in prison 9 May 2022
An adoptive mom was charged with abusing her Ethiopian son. Then the case was dropped 3 May 2022
Die Antwoord’s Adopted Son Alleges Years of Abuse and Exploitation 27 April 2022
North Carolina college professor charged in murder of 6-week-old adopted son 15 April 2022
Gastonia man facing murder charge after adopted 6-week-old son dies 14 April 2022
Foster parents, 2 sons arrested in Chennai for sexually abusing adopted daughter 7 April 2022
Chennai: 64-year-old, sons rape adopted daughter for 2 years, four held 7 April 2022
Adoptive parents arrested in killing of 2 California boys 3 March 2022
N.C. man and school counselor accused of child abuse, attempted murder of 11-year-old adopted son 10 February 2022
How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 8 February 2022
Russian priest who adopted 70 children jailed for abuse 24 December 2021
Warwick woman sentenced to 18 years in daughter's death, related charges 23 December 2021
Carlos (29) was severely abused and mutilated as a child, now he gets artificial skin 16 December 2021
Telangana: French woman killed, adopted daughter held 12 September 2021
A baby's death casts shadow on South Korea's adoption industry 17 January 2021
More Iowa kids will die unless this state gets serious about funding, valuing child welfare 20 February 2020
Adopted daughter of former top diplomat John Negroponte charged with murder in Maryland stabbing 14 February 2020
Broken Arrow Parents Charged In Death Of 3-Year-Old 15 November 2019
Adopted Bulgarian Children Found in a Horror House in the US 9 August 2019
Sherin Mathews death: Father of adopted Indian girl gets life sentence 27 June 2019
Mother pleads guilty to manslaughter in 16-year-old Chenango County boy's death 3 April 2019
He killed and dismembered 14-year-old Grace Packer. The Bucks DA says he should die. 15 March 2019
He killed and dismembered 14-year-old Grace Packer. The Bucks DA says he should die. 15 March 2019
“She Never Said I Was the Monster”: Denton Husband Accused of Child Abuse Claims Innocence 19 September 2017
Lawyer Held For Murder, Year After Adopted Daughter’s Death 9 June 2017
Uncle was called by the defendant on the day of the murder: - He seemed very distant 8 June 2017
Investigation launched after infant dies in foster care 19 December 2016
Md. dad who killed adopted son sentenced to 12 years in prison 19 July 2016
Kansas man loses appeal for new trial in death of 9-year-old son Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article306224.html#storylink=cpy 16 May 2014
Hana's Story An adoptee's tragic fate, and how it could happen again. By Kathryn Joyce DoubleX has closed its doors. Read a roundtable with its founders here, or see new stories in the Human Interest section. 9 November 2013
Couple now charged with murder in death of 7-year-old daughter 7 November 2013
Update: New Information About Chico Doctor and Wife Accused of Killing 2-Year-Old Adopted Son 19 July 2012
Columbus parents charged in toddler's death 2 February 2012
Tragedy eludes explanation 13 January 2012
Father charged in baby’s death denies hurting son 2 November 2011
OKC Couple Charged in Toddler's Death Admits 3-year-old Was 'Whooped' with Switch 13 July 2010
Woman gets life for killing adopted daughters 22 March 2010
Adoptive mother convicted in boy's death 12 June 2008