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A woman in North Andover, Massachusetts was arrested and charged with allowing her white supremacist husband to sexually abuse, torture and humiliate her two daughters because their father was Hispanic.
According to the Salem News, Anne Ladd, 32, reportedly directed her husband Justin Ladd, 33, to torture the girls and participated in the abuse. She was arraigned in Salem Superior Court on two counts of permitting assault and battery on a child, permitting assault and battery on a child causing serious bodily injury, and two counts of child endangerment.
Justin Ladd who was arraigned in Lawrence District Court was indicted on 41 criminal counts associated with violence against his two step-daughters, now ages 14 and 16.
Over a five-year period, from 2008 to 2013, Justin Ladd reportedly hit the two girls with a hammer, belts and lengths of lumber. He touched them inappropriately, yanked their tongues with pliers and threatened to have them raped by a motorcycle gang.
Assistant District Attorney Kate MacDougall said in court that Justin Ladd made the two girls dance around like monkeys, exposed his genitals to them, called them vicious racial slurs and told them that he was going to beat the black out of them.
Justin Ladd is a white supremacist, said prosecutors, who scrawled the words White Power across multiple walls in the family home. The Ladds pulled the girls out of public school in order to put them to work cleaning the house and doing other domestic chores.
More here and watch the video at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/26/ma-mom-let-white-supremacist-husband-torture-and-humiliate-her-half-latina-daughters/
merrily
(45,251 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)The arraignment does not go far enough in my opinion. Everything, every single item, Justin is being charged with; she should be charged as being an accessory or a conspirator to it.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)Wonder which chapter of the Tea Party this guy belonged to.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)It gives me a jolt every time! Thinking that a fellow DUer suffered this!
Terrible story!
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)Er...what?
The couple they moved in with "witnessed the abuse"...they are the source of information that the mother "directed her husband to abuse the girls." Are they the ones who finally reported this?
It's not clear from either article; or I missed it. (edited) yep, I missed it. The second family reported it.
http://www.salemnews.com/region/x1927818738/North-Andover-mother-charged-with-allowing-child-abuse-torture/print
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Those poor girls.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)He allegedly threatened if they told their mother about this or any incident he would get his motorcycle group, believed to be the Hells Angels, to kill and rape the girls, according to Reardons report.
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The girl also said she saw Ladd using heroin and cheating on her mother. After she told her mother, she said he took pliers to her tongue and pinky toes because he was angry for her telling, according to the report.
The girl also told police Ladd forced her to dance for him, sometimes with her pants pulled down exposing her buttocks. Her mother was present on some occasions for this, Reardon wrote in his report.
The girl also told police Ladd exposed himself to her and her brothers and sister. He allegedly stated to all the children This is what your mom takes every night, according to the police report.
http://www.salemnews.com/region/x1927818738/North-Andover-mother-charged-with-allowing-child-abuse-torture/print
Initech
(100,102 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)fishwax
(29,149 posts)Xithras
(16,191 posts)Similar situation to the one in the story. He married a woman who had previously been with a hispanic guy, and her two children looked very hispanic. I don't know about any physical abuse, but it was clearly mentally abusive. He'd refer to them as his "little wetbacks" in public. He'd work his stepson like a dog in the yard, and then proudly proclaim that he was just getting him ready for "his future as a Mexican". I once saw his seven year old stepdaughter ride her bicycle into a neighbors parked car. When the neighbor came out, the guy apologized for the scratch on the car by saying "Sorry about that, but you can't expect too much from these dumb Mexican kids." The neighbor not-so-politely told the stepdad to go fuck himself.
A bunch of people in the neighborhood called CPS on the guy, but they never did anything except visit occasionally and "monitor the situation". Finally, one of his neighbors (a hispanic woman, fwiw) got so fed up that she tracked down the kids father. A number of people ended up testifying in court about what they'd seen, virtually everyone in the neighborhood signed affidavits saying that they'd seen the abuse, and the fed up neighbor even came up with some video of some of his comments that he'd made during a neighborhood BBQ. The judge completely stripped the mother of custody rights and gave the kids to their dad. The asshole stepdad was so pissed off that he ended up moving out of the neighborhood a few months afterward.
I'll never understand the mindset of people who can abuse a child, or of parents who can stand by while SOMEONE ELSE abuses their child. My asshole neighbor had always been an asshole, but the kids mother CHOSE to bring her children into that environment. WTF?
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)There is quite a lot of racist, but friendly, jibing in my household that would freak out people unfamilar with us. Even the Jew in the basement ("where they belong" takes a hit from time to time.