Posted on 12/29/2014 10:29:15 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
WORCESTER — Erika L. Murray gave birth to five children in the bathroom of her Blackstone home, and three did not survive — while those who did were essentially imprisoned in a bedroom behind a wall of dirty diapers and trash, a prosecutor said Monday.
One of the survivors — a girl now 3 years old — was so badly neglected that when she was examined by doctors for the first time in her life, a pediatrician had to remove maggots from her ears before she could even hear those trying to speak to her, a prosecutor said in court Monday.
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I heard about this last summer. The ‘boyfriend’ Rivera said he never knew about all the other children because the woman stayed upstairs most of the time, and he was ‘not allowed’ up there at any time’. Still, she was pregnant at least six times during their residence at that house. Did he not know what a pregnant woman would look like close to gestation? Was he of particularly low IQ? She was and is obviously severely ill. Did the older children not know of the three year old or the infant? So many questions that may be better off unanswered.
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