yolland
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I read the story in the Birmingham paper about that; the whole family sounded like a real piece of work. The father, biological mother, and stepmother all had histories (domestic violence, child neglect, and mental illness/alcoholism, respectively) and probably none of them should've had custody of a child. Then again, Grandma was the one out in the yard making the girl run for hours, yet apparently she was also the only adult with a clean record (of course, chances are Dad was an abusive person partly because of things Grandma did to him and/or allowed to be done to him way back when). There are two younger half-siblings, too (the stepmother gave birth again just a few days after this incident); you can only hope they don't wind up in custody of any of these people. It's so disturbing to watch kids being jerked through life on a choke-chain in the wake of adults who can't hold their own lives together, never mind a child's.
Not clear to me whether any of these neighbors who called police did so before the stepmother called 911 or not.
Not clear to me whether any of these neighbors who called police did so before the stepmother called 911 or not.