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Posted on 07/16/2006 2:55:19 PM PDT by freepatriot32
LYMAN, S.C. - A couple was jailed on felony charges after police discovered their three adopted sons were severely malnourished, including a 5-year-old boy who weighed less than 20 pounds.
An 8-year-old brother weighed less than 40 pounds and a 7-year-old brother weighed about 32 pounds when police found them Thursday. The boys also were treated for bruises, scratches, burns and head lice.
Two of the boys told officers they were tied up to be kept from food in the mobile home.
Dennis McCurry, 30, and Molly McCurry, 29, were each charged with three counts of intentional infliction of great bodily injury upon a child. If convicted of the felony, each faces a minimum 20 year sentence.
A fourth child, Molly McCurry's 10-year-old biological daughter, was found to have head lice but was not malnourished, police said.
"It appeared that mom, dad and daughter ate one way, and the boys ate another way," Spartanburg County sheriff's Sgt. Kevin Bobo said.
According to the incident report, the couple told officers their family "had been dealing with a stomach virus that had caused the weight loss." During his bail hearing, Dennis McCurry told Magistrate Judge John Poole that he had lost 10 pounds.
The couple was denied bail and the children are in protective custody.
The boys are Molly McCurry's biological nephews, but she and her husband adopted them. The boys had lived with the McCurrys since 2003.
Wow thats one heck of a smart stomach virus that can tell who the adopted children are and attack them(and burn bruise and scratch them) but not the biological family. Maybe the military can weaponise it to attack enemy agents but not americans.
Just a matter of time until CPS is blamed for interferring in the rights of parents to abuse their kids.
Those poor children.
Sickening.
I hope South Carolina has the death penalty.
Why are jerks like that allowed to adopt children?
SC ping. Just evil.
Sure didn't take long for the insults to start flying.
They probably only took them in to increase their monthly dole. Poor kids.
These scum should, at the very least, have all parental rights permanently terminated, and they should be sterilized.
Usually in these cases, the parents and the preferred child/ren are obese while the targeted children are malnourished and abused. Tried to see pictures at the site, but there were none.
It would be interesting to see if this holds true.
Sickos.
It does, but not for child abuse, unfortunately.
More tax deductions for the adoptors. Overworked and apathetic department of child protective services.
No pictures of the wonderful parents? I need some new targets. Shot up all the UN and Hillary targets.
I can remember a few tight times when my mother took less to give us more.....these people are vile.
Neither Dennis nor Molly look like they have missed a meal.
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I never can understand these kinds of stories about parenting adults starve children. I just cannot comprehend the mindset of such evil people.
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