Adoptive Mom tortures twin 8 yo's

Sucks for the kids, but the state still gets to keep the big bonus they
scored when they gave these poor children to this monster.



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Girls tell of abuse by adoptive mother

Jurors weep as twins, 8, describe being beaten, burned, dunked into
toilet by adoptive parent.


Steve Perez / The Detroit News



MOUNT CLEMENS -- Barely able to see over the witness stand, twin
8-year-old sisters made a Macomb County jury cry Friday as they
described the abuse they suffered at the hands of the adoptive mother
accused of torturing them.

In sundresses and ponytails, the twin girls testified separately that
30-year-old Tamika Williams beat them with cable wire, shoes and
exercise equipment; bathed them in bleach water; burned them with
cigarettes; and dunked them in a toilet filled with urine.

When Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer Andary pulled a spring-loaded
exercise tool out of an evidence bag, one of the girls quickly covered
her face and began to sob. Some jurors did, too.

The girl said the tool was used by Williams to hit her on the legs, back
and behind.

"(Williams) said if I tell anyone, she was going to kill me," she said.

The girl also demonstrated, holding her arms over her head, how she was
hung by her hands with a rope from a door and beaten with a baseball bat.

She also described being hit with a toilet seat and dunked into a toilet.

After Andary finished her questions about abuse, she asked the girl what
she had hoped for in an adoptive mother.

The girl responded: "A mom that takes care of me and loves me."

Williams, whose trial began Thursday, is accused of abusing the girls
since she adopted them in 2005 from a foster care home in Southfield.
The children are alleged to have suffered bruises, welts and burns. They
are now in foster care.

Williams is charged with two counts of torture and two counts of child
abuse.

If convicted, she could face up to life in prison.

Defense attorney Ronald Goldstein asked questions of the first girl in
an attempt to show that the girls had injuries before they were adopted
by Williams.

When he questioned the first girl about her treatment from her previous
foster mother, the girl said she was hit once with a belt.

When he asked if the girls fought or injured each other, she said no.

When the second of two girls took the stand Friday, she was fearful and
had to be coaxed into the courtroom to sit at the witness stand.

When she finally agreed to testify, the courtroom was cleared by Judge
Mary Chrzanowski of everyone except for the jury, attorneys, the officer
in charge of the case, deputies, Williams and foster care personnel.

Others watched on closed-circuit TV.

The second girl also told how she was hit with the "exercise thing" and
described why Williams did what she did.

"'Cause she didn't like us," said the girl. The girls avoided looking
at Williams as they testified. Williams listened attentively, sometimes
shaking her head, other times covering her face during descriptions of
abuse.

She smiled when the girls spelled their names and showed off their
knowledge of multiplication tables during initial questioning by
prosecutors.

The girls were removed from the home Nov. 16 after teachers at
Warrendale Elementary School reported an injury to one of the girls.

The trial is expected to resume Tuesday.

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Jason Ryels wrote:


Sucks for the kids, but the state still gets to keep the big bonus they
scored when they gave these poor children to this monster.

AND, they can now adopt the twins out again and score another big bonus.

The party never ends at CPS high.




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Girls tell of abuse by adoptive mother

Jurors weep as twins, 8, describe being beaten, burned, dunked into
toilet by adoptive parent.


Steve Perez / The Detroit News



MOUNT CLEMENS -- Barely able to see over the witness stand, twin
8-year-old sisters made a Macomb County jury cry Friday as they
described the abuse they suffered at the hands of the adoptive mother
accused of torturing them.

In sundresses and ponytails, the twin girls testified separately that
30-year-old Tamika Williams beat them with cable wire, shoes and
exercise equipment; bathed them in bleach water; burned them with
cigarettes; and dunked them in a toilet filled with urine.

When Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer Andary pulled a spring-loaded
exercise tool out of an evidence bag, one of the girls quickly covered
her face and began to sob. Some jurors did, too.

The girl said the tool was used by Williams to hit her on the legs, back
and behind.

"(Williams) said if I tell anyone, she was going to kill me," she said.

The girl also demonstrated, holding her arms over her head, how she was
hung by her hands with a rope from a door and beaten with a baseball bat.

She also described being hit with a toilet seat and dunked into a toilet.

After Andary finished her questions about abuse, she asked the girl what
she had hoped for in an adoptive mother.

The girl responded: "A mom that takes care of me and loves me."

Williams, whose trial began Thursday, is accused of abusing the girls
since she adopted them in 2005 from a foster care home in Southfield.
The children are alleged to have suffered bruises, welts and burns. They
are now in foster care.

Williams is charged with two counts of torture and two counts of child
abuse.

If convicted, she could face up to life in prison.

Defense attorney Ronald Goldstein asked questions of the first girl in
an attempt to show that the girls had injuries before they were adopted
by Williams.

When he questioned the first girl about her treatment from her previous
foster mother, the girl said she was hit once with a belt.

When he asked if the girls fought or injured each other, she said no.

When the second of two girls took the stand Friday, she was fearful and
had to be coaxed into the courtroom to sit at the witness stand.

When she finally agreed to testify, the courtroom was cleared by Judge
Mary Chrzanowski of everyone except for the jury, attorneys, the officer
in charge of the case, deputies, Williams and foster care personnel.

Others watched on closed-circuit TV.

The second girl also told how she was hit with the "exercise thing" and
described why Williams did what she did.

"'Cause she didn't like us," said the girl. The girls avoided looking at
Williams as they testified. Williams listened attentively, sometimes
shaking her head, other times covering her face during descriptions of
abuse.

She smiled when the girls spelled their names and showed off their
knowledge of multiplication tables during initial questioning by
prosecutors.

The girls were removed from the home Nov. 16 after teachers at
Warrendale Elementary School reported an injury to one of the girls.

The trial is expected to resume Tuesday.


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