APNewsBreak: Woman says she reported 'cruel' treatment
Source: Associated Press
Lisa Baumann, Associated Press
Updated 8:17 pm, Tuesday, April 3, 2018
This March 25, 2018, Safeway surveillance photo provided by the California Highway Patrol shows Jennifer Hart, right, at a Safeway store in Fort Bragg, Calif. Sarah and Jennifer Hart, of Woodland, Wash., were found dead at a crash scene March 26, 2018, along with three of their children where the SUV they were traveling in plunged off a coastal cliff near Mendocino, Calif.
(Courtesy of California Highway Patrol via AP)
SEATTLE (AP) — A woman said Tuesday that she told Oregon child welfare officials in 2013 that Jennifer and Sarah Hart — who plunged off a California cliff with their children last month in an SUV — had been depriving the kids of food as punishment.
In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Alexandra Argyropoulos, a former friend of the Harts, said she "witnessed what I felt to be controlling emotional abuse and cruel punishment" toward the six children.
Argyropoulos said she was told the children had been interviewed by officials but there was nothing more the Oregon Department of Human Services could do because there was not enough evidence to make a case.
The family was living in Woodland, Washington, before their SUV plummeted 100 feet on March 26 from a highway near Mendocino, California.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Possible-sighting-of-mother-before-deadly-SUV-12802391.php
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Just found this photo of the two mothers with their children. I would NEVER have imagined, just by seeing them, that they would be people who would abuse the helplessness of these beautiful children, who have absolutely no where else to go, nor any idea of who would help them.
