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robot-heart-politics:karnythia:alexandraerin:karnythia:alexandraerin:karnythia:deliciouskaek:kikismisandryservice:[MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING: child abuse, death]lightspeedsound:4-Year Old U.S. Adoptee Killed by “Water Therapy”[TRIGGER WARNING: child abuse, death] As his 4-year-old adopted daughter Cassandra lay dying, Richard Killpack blamed her condition on “emotional problems” and “a really bad case of RAD [Reactive Attachment Disorder]” in his 911 call.Killpack and his wife Jenette had punished the child for sneaking sips of her sister’s drink by sitting her on a bar stool, tying her hands behind her back with the help of their biological daughter, and forcing her to drink a lethal amount of water.EMTs found the child unconscious with distended belly and pink foam from her mouth. Medical examiners declared cause of death water intoxication, a condition in which over-abundance of water causes sodium levels in the body to drop, resulting in fatal swelling of the brain.“I said, ‘You’ll have to go to Mom and do the drinking-water thing,’” the Killpacks’ biological daughter Heather said in a police interview. ”She makes her drink ‘til she pukes.”The Killpacks insist they were using “water therapy” to cure their adopted child’s disorder, stating in TV appearances that under the rules set by attachment therapists, Cassandra had to ask for everything, including food and water, “to help her understand dependency, that her mom and dad loved her.”Sources: CNN |ACTLE WHAT THE FUCKi hope these people get burned alive. why was i not surprised to see their facesAnd this is why I don’t support transracial adoption or this myth that white people can save children of color just by showing up. Shit like this is why many nations are starting to decide that Americans shouldn’t be adopting kids away from their cultures. Bets that she never developed an attachment to them because they were abusive from jump?That was my thought. This child probably knew exactly what love was and knew she wasn’t getting it… could see and feel the difference between how the couple treated their white daughter and how they treated her.That’s not really a stretch to imagine, though, when they had no problem tying a a pre-schooler up and torturing her until she gave proper respect to their control over every aspect of her life. Just look at the quote from their white daughter to the police. She knew her parents treated her differently, and didn’t see anything wrong with it. Where’d she learn that from?Yeah you know things are extra specially fucked up when the older kid actually sends what should be their baby sister to be punished for taking a sip of water. I just…Jesus…I am without words for this today. That baby died by inches & these fucks are still trying to justify her murder.This is not the first child death from “attachment therapy” that I’ve heard of, but it’s easily the worst and most horrifying. Smothering, denial of medical care… awful and terrifying for the child involved, I’m sure, but… an entire family tying up and torturing a child, barely more than a toddler, repeatedly… for infractions as small as “stealing” a sip of water.And for what? So she’d learn “dependency”. So she’d learn that she needs to beg for even the barest essentials of place. Does anyone think the daughter had to ask permission for her glass of water?The therapists involved should also be prosecuted, but there is something seriously wrong with the parents that they accepted this “treatment”, and I doubt they would have ever agreed to it if it had been recommended for their own, white offspring.They wouldn’t have done it. Because that child is a person to them & not a possession. And I have real questions about whether or not the therapists said to do this to be honest. Even though I think RAD is junk science, I have yet to hear of attachment therapy that involved tying someone up and force feeding them water. I think this was just something they did & are now trying to call it therapy. They didn’t try to hug her, or make her sit with them while they prepared her food or water (all things I’ve seen recommended), they went right to tying her up & water torture. She was supposed to be an accessory with no needs & when she didn’t slot right into their fantasy they punished her for it.Everything about this is horrifying. -- source link
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