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PROUD PARENTS: IN THE NEWS
I have honestly never been so enraged by a news article as I am now after reading what you’re about to. Pictured above are Larry and Carri Williams, the Washington couple who were arrested for the murder of their adopted daughter Hana, a 13 year old Ethopian girl given a second chance at life. Forced to live in a closet that was locked with a light controlled from the outside and being denied meals for days at a time, she was abused until the moment she died, being left outside, malnourished, nearly naked face down in 42 degree weather. Continue reading for the full story..
This is 13 year old Hana, her 10 year old brother who was adopted with her was found in similar condition. They are claiming no religious basis for their actions, although they closely follow a religious parenting book. Please use the Facebook and Twitter share buttons above to share this article with everyone you know! We have not seen this in the mainstream news, but perhaps with enough public attention this disgusting couple will get the sentencing they deserve. Here is the full news article:
Courtesy of DailyMail.co.uk
By Daily Mail Reporter
A Washington couple has been charged with homicide by abuse in the death of their 13-year-old daughter who was adopted from Ethiopia.
Larry and Carri Williams, of Sedro-Woolley, were arrested on Thursday and jailed on $500,000 bond.
Prosecutors say the girl, Hana Williams, lived in a closet and was denied meals for days at a time.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports Carri Williams called 911 early May 12 and reported Hana was not breathing.
Williams said the girl was being ‘rebellious’ and that she had seen her daughter falling down and staggering in the backyard, and that the girl had taken all her clothes off. She said Hana had refused to come into the house before she was found face down down in the backyard with mud in her mouth.
She was taken to the hospital, where she died of hypothermia at 1:30am.
However, an autopsy found malnutrition and a stomach infection were contributing factors.
In July, seven remaining children were removed from the Williams home and placed in foster care.
Larry and Carri Williams were also charged with first-degree child assault due to the regular physical abuse of Hana’s 10-year-old brother, who was adopted with her in 2008.
Both children were treated differently from the couple’s six biological children, who ranged in age from seven to 17, according to an affidavit from the Skagit County sheriff’s office.
The document alleges the Williams repeatedly denied Hana food, locked her in a dark closet and beat her with a long plastic tube.
They also made her sleep in a barn, shower outside with a garden hose and even sit outside while the family celebrated Christmas inside.
She had allegedly lost 30lbs in the two years leading up to her death, leading the coroners office to report her body was unable to maintain enough heat when the temperature dropped to 42 degrees the evening she died.
The couple is being held on bail at Skagit County Jail, according to country prosecutor Rich Weyrich.
Weyrich said couple is expected to be arraigned next week. If convicted, the Williamses face potential life sentences.
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Disgusting. Absolutely vile, worthless “people” they are. Those poor children had a second chance at life and they tortured them. It is absolutely revolting what those people did to those poor children!
May they rot in hell. God bless her sweet soul.
They better not let them off the hook like they let Casey Anthony it sickens me on how the gov. lets these sick individuals off with a slap on the wrists like the only crime they committed was j walking f.y.i. these are real people they were someone’s daughter, son or granddaughter or grandson u can’t just throw it out as if they didn’t know any better that’s a lame copout if u ask me punish them as if it were ur family member and u were begging for justice don’t let more get away with it
These monsters should get the death penalty,but done in the same way the little girl died!
Awww poor child
I’m glad the others are now safe. 
I hate people.
This is not the first time I have heard of abuse on kids adopted from foreign countries. It is my opinion that the government is not monitoring these families and just letting them do what they want to these kids until they die…then they step in. I’m sure these poor kids being adopted are just tax write offs for scumbag parents like this…hell has a special place for these 2 so-called “parents.”
This is so sick. And on the other side, My friend who is a child psychologist, who took in the crack and meth babies no one else wanted, had a 3 year old who killed cats and painted the walls with his poop and she still gave him a loving home. What did the Government do…Blame her for his antisocial tendencies so now she won’t foster any more kids. Way to lost a safe foster care home over one government woman who was on a power trip.
Oh that poor, sweet babydoll. I agree, her parents deserve the worst… but nothing will be enough. They are clearly mentally ill, there is no way a person in their right mind would commit such acts! I hope that dear child is resting peacefully in a much happier place.
They will rot in hell. The other children should also be looked at as and go to therapy. With any hope, these people will be in lock down 23 hours a day and will little or no food.
Giving them the accomodations of jail would be too much, they should be starved to death in a cold wet hole seperated from eachother. That story is absolutely horrifying.
What the hell is wrong with people? I agree with theDREW. The “parents” need to be beaten, starved, and all that they did to her done to them.
No “religious” book would say to treat children like that. Unless it was based on stereotypical Satanism.
no excuse for this! Absolutely outrageous!
I disagree with you all. In cases like this, I am wholly against the death penalty.
They should be sentenced to life without parole (considering the heinousness of the crime) and made to shit in front of others, be subjected to random violent assaults by other inmates, and raped nightly by the most violent of inmates.
IOW, death is too easy. Hana was made to suffer for days on end, endure unimaginable abuse, and likely she wished for a quick end. Why give her tormentors an easy out?
Here’s an article about similar conservative christian “parenting” methods.
Oops! Here’s the link:
http://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/no_greater_joy/
This is reprehensible. Vile people like this are the reason we need express lanes on death row.
I think the children that were old enough to know right from wrong should get some kind of charge too. You can’t tell me a 17 yr old didn’t notice what was happening. They could have gotten these children helped and saved a life. Horrible.
Sadly I understand the childrenʻs plight. I too was abused at a young age by my religious stepmother, who treated me differently than my sisters; her biological children. I used to have to sleep outside, spent most of my time ʻin the cornerʻ or cleaning, and was often beaten with rebar she had found in the garage. I was denied much of what other normal children experienced. I was pulled out of school to be “home schooled” since my parents didn’t want me to learn ungodly things…which sadly I learned anyway being at home. One christmas, all I got was coal in a bag because I was ʻbadʻ that year and had to sit there and watch everyone else open their gifts. After that I was sent to the corner while everyone ate christmas dinner. I got none but had to clean up after them while they went into the living room to watch TV. Birthdays were forgotten, I was put on strange diets where I was only allowed to eat the same bland thing everyday for months at a time (generic sugar-free cheerios, kidney beans, etc.), and I was never allowed to play with other children in the neighborhood. Luckily for me, she died of complications with a miscarriage when I was 12. I’ve mostly forgotten all the anguish I had to endure but I still have issues that I deal with to this day (Iʻm 30 now). As sad as it is to see this happening, I know from experience that it is real and it does happen to adopted kids in evangelical christian homes. This is why I am now an atheist.
cannot believe people in this world. some parents would die for a child other abuse and mistreat the children they have adopted, THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES AND I HOPE THEY GET THE DP!!!!
Oh my God! Wow just wow! I cannot believe this!! Why would people do this? This story is so sad. To think that beautiful child is dead because of these two lowlifes. This story really does make me believe that evil does indeed exist.
Why would you adopt a child let alone two just to be cruel to them? I just do get why people are like this.
A slow painful beating & starvation to these ‘people’ – that poor little girl & her brother might actually have been better off in famine ridden Ethiopia…. at least they might have experienced love from a family member…… I had an aunt that thru biology, adoption & fostering had 15 kids – the only reason I knew which child came from where is that I was there when they arrived….. the aunt too belonged to a ‘fringe’ Christian religion but everyone of those 15 kids grew up happy, productive adults……. dont blame the religion for the freaks – it was their choice – not their creed.
My husband and I have tried to have a child for years. Then I see stories like this. How is it that we, in a stable loving home, cannot have a baby, but MONSTERS are allowed to kill sweet innocent children? It is absolutely heart breaking.
Yeah, you can’t blame their insanity on religion. But you gotta wonder, what the hell was really going through these “parents” heads? Unfortunately it wasn’t a 5.56.
Kaulana – Thanks for sharing your story. This kind of thing goes on every day to thousands of children, not just the ones we hear about in the media. I’m glad you are a SURVIVOR and I hope the people who allowed this to happen to you rot!
I’ll donate two 44.magnum bullets to rid the earth of those two scumbags
These sick fucks boy i’d love to get my hands on them! May God rest her soul!
Wow, I can’t believe with all these comments, noone played the race card!!!
Count me in for a couple of .45ACP Hydra-Shock rounds. That, or a couple of .22shorts in a nonlethal part, and a smear of fermented sewage in the wounds afterward to ensure a painful infection! They need to be sent to either a Korean or Turkish prison, the American prison system is way too good for these animals!
WTF is wrong with these people. Poor girl and her brother
This is sickening. I hope those two pigs rot in prison for the rest of there pathetic lives and then spend eternity burning in hell with hot pokers shoved in their eyes, butts and hearts.
God is taking care that sweet baby now.
@JAMI Satanism isn’t about worshipping Satan….
Makes me so mad that they only live like an hour away from me, i doubt they will get away with it, it has sickened everyone.
Where were the neighbors? Teachers? Siblings? Friends of the family? Someone MUST have seen something. To all those who saw but did nothing, i think they are just as guilty as the ones who did this.
This is even worse because this is from the city I live in….What the hell……
they schould be taken to texas and stand trial there sick bastards need to be taken out
For every day a child suffers at the hands of these kinds of trash, the trash should suffer 5 days of equal torture to the point of death then kept alive to suffer more. And burn off one digit at the end of each 5th day.until all digits are gone. Then let them rot out in the desert sun.
these people will rot in hell for what they did. i believe that if you do something like this, you should be branded with names like “babykiller” and “abuse offender.”
this is SICK.
I CALL FOR THE DEATH PENALTY KILL DEM BITCHES
I reading these comments and I hear people say how sick this is, to me there is not a word to describe it, you have lost all your humanity, this girl is helpless, children are helpless they put there trust in us to take care of them, not even animals in the wild do things like this! I have even read story’s of animals adopting other animals and talking care of them. O and as for this not being in mainstream media, if she was white it would be everywhere sorry I’m not one to throw the race card out there like that, but that’s how it is.
words cannot describe the anger and sadness i feel from this story………………….>:(
This couple just needs to be shot in the head and left outside to rot.
Poor beautiful little girl. I pray that justice be served and she rests peacefully. Wishing the best for her brother too- we can only hope he can recover (even a little) from the damage he has endured.
Ick.
To the person who said they were probably mentally ill – probably not. People diagnosed with mental illnesses are more likely to be victims of a crime than commit a crime. And a lot of the crimes committed aren’t violent – stealing small amounts of money for food, breaking in to houses to acquire money, etc.
The majority of rapists, murderers, child abusers, and woman abusers are not diagnosable – PTSD at the most for child/woman abusers. The people who do these things are just terrible people. That’s why they rot in jail versus rotting in a state psychiatric hospital.
shoot them in the fucking head and anyone else that acts that way with children they do not deserve to still b breathing
so, they adopted children and then tortured them? What the FUCk kind of religion do they follow? Whatever it is and whatever book they claim to have been reading, they should be outlawed to say the least. These people are monster and should be tortured in the same way they tortured these kids. Their biological children should be monitored for the rest of their lives, they should not be allowed to have children either.
To anybody who posts racist crap about white people on this article, you know as well as I do that these people are monsters and do NOT represent how all white people act. If you think that you are just as fucked in the head as these pieces of human garbage.
they should have to endure the pain and suffering that child had to for as long as it takes for them to meet the same fate, i hope they rot in hell, any other punishment would be to good for those sick, fucked up people!
Sad to say some people do adopt kids for the wrong reasons I was adopted at 9, and they adopted me because they thought getting a kid would help their marriage problems, but instead they took all their anger out on me in abusive ways, I had to leave at age 16 between getting beat, and them always reminding my of where I came from, and how because of that I will never be anything in life.
O and ho said anything about it’s because their white gorillaglue? I know I said in a early post if the little girl was white it would have been more in mainstream media, I’m not racist at all no where near it, but I was watching a news report just the other that did say when it comes to story’s like this the ones that hit mainstream media hard, is story’s about little white girls.
Ummm so I have to say this… While it’s heartbreaking that this little girl was made to suffer… I have to say that (for me personally,) given the frequency with which these types of events occur; I am no longer shocked, saddened, angry, or outraged by these stories… I don’t feel much anything anymore. This shit is so common and mainstream now that I just feel numb… As a child who was sexually abused by my own “Father” I know I should feel empathy… All I feel is Apathy… I ask myself when O’lord when will shit like this end? Only then can the healibg truely begin
I don’t beleive what I have read. My God!! These two animals should be taken outside, hung from their thumbs and little cuts inflicted all over their bodies. Sprinkle red ants all over their naked bodies and watch them as the ants bite. Let them bleed out and hang till the corpse fall. After that burn the F………’s
They sound like typical Christians to me. *shrugs* I mean, it says right in the bible that it’s acceptable to have slaves so long as they come from a foreign land. Sounds to me like that’s exactly what they went for and what they got…until they inadvertently killed her. Perhaps the bible needs a companion book along with it…”How to keep your foreign slave child alive and working.”
And of course the bible also offers *LOTS* of great parenting examples, from beating your children, stoning them to death, drowning them, WOW, it’s such a beacon of parenting know-how!
@Kaulana I am glad that you were able to survive, I can understand what you went through my step-dad’s mother was much the same. My sister and I are atheist bc of it. I feel time and their own karma will get monsters like them the woman that abused my sister and me is now senile and out of her mind, lost everything of power she used against us as children. Yours died during a miscarriage. These monsters will get theirs. I just wish it was on more media outlets so god forbid they ever get out (and lets face it they will) that they will be unable to find work and know the cruelty they perpetrated.
This is ridiculous. People like this can have and adopt children, but I can’t? What the EFF?!?!?!?! I want like 10 kids, but I have a condition where i can no longer reproduce. (I’m 19 now) I already have 2 little girls, and I’m desperately trying to find a surrogate mother or adopt, but because of my age, no one takes me seriously. I wish i could have the children they adopted… I would love them and care for them and never ever even think of treating them any different than my biological children. These people need to be locked in a dungeon and forgotten.
You would think if they were charged due to what they did to the 10 year old, they wouldnt be able to adopt another child…
I may be an atheist, but I hope those so-called ‘parents’ ROT in HELL!
I’m also a veterinarian- If I EVER meet ANYBODY like those two, I will PERSONALLY neuter them- free of charge!!! >:(
Poor little soul.
This breaks my heart. I hope those two burn in hell forever.
Beating with a plastic tube sounds straight out of “To Tran Up a Child”, G*d awful crap that promotes hitting babies.
*Train
R.I.P. angel.
We adopted two children from Ethiopia and they are a tremendous joy. We have two biological childen also. They are all our children, with no distinction at all, they are equal. I love them all so much. I am horrified that this happened. Having been to Ethiopia and seen the need of these children this just has me shocked and horrified! I am also a Christian and am horrified that this couple would use faith as a lame excuse for abuse. Having red the bible it does not say it is okay to have slaves from a foriegn country. Slavery existed then, and BTW it still does today. I work with many christians who work tirelessly to end slavery today. BTW when you buy a Hershey bar you support slavery, as most cocao is harvested by child slave labour. When you watch child porn, those are SLAVES!!!!!! There are people who do wrong things and use anything they can to justify it for themselves. I hope this couple gets what is coming to them, and is never in the presence of any children ever again!
Sorry Don, but you’re not actually a Christian, yer probably more like a…Theistic Agnostic or something along those lines. I highly doubt you’ve ever actually read the *REAL* bible either, you’ve probably just read some uber fruity, watered down, Americanized, kiddy version that conveniently leaves out all the uber horrific atrocities, not to mention all the horrific things that Jesus himself did. His a real good site on the character of Jesus:
http://www.daylightatheism.org/2008/01/on-the-character-of-jesus.html
He himself openly advocated the practice of keeping slaves.
You’re also terribly ignorant. In most 3rd world countries children WANT to work…you know, so their families don’t STARVE TO DEATH. Your Americanized perspective blinds you to the fact that in many countries there’s no such thing as “school” at all. Kids don’t go to school, they go to “work”, which is usually pretty easy/simple stuff, which is part of why they don’t get much money. Yes, there are ~some~ outfit who effectively use slave labor, but most of those outfits prefer to enslave adults rather than children because they can get more work out of them.
This is another good link, on all the atrocities in the NEW Testament:
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/nt_list.html
…the old, well, let’s be honest, the ENTIRE thing is nothing BUT horrific atrocities. In fact that’s the biggest section advocating slavery and the “rules and laws” of slavery in general. I especially like the part about how if a woman is RAPED she has to MARRY her rapist. LOL
First of all, the story never specifies that this couple were “Christians”. It only says that they “closely followed a religious parenting book”. Besides, this is nowhere near what the Christian faith is about. Yes, the Bible talks about many things that are not acceptable in society today, such as slavery, rape, adultry, murder, etc. However, it does not glorify or condone these actions. I, having read most of the Bible, have never once come across a verse that claims that child abuse is acceptable. It is arrogant and unfair to judge the whole faith based on the actions of a VERY small percentage of terrible people that claim to be Christians.
@ Non- The old testement law that states that when a woman is raped, she must marry the rapist was put into action is because in that time period, a woman was considered unclean if she was not a virgin, no matter what circumstances put her there. She would not be able to marry, and therefore have to fend for herself. The only way to ensure that she was taken care of by Old Testement standards was to make the rapist take responsibility for his actions and have to support the victim.
Sorry Non, but what makes you the expert on slavery? In fact, there are more slaves today then there were when slavery was legal in the U.S. during the trans atlantic slave trade. And yes, while many children prefer to work than to starve, most of them would rather go to school. No, that option doesn’t exist for all, but it should. Also, a lot of slave labor is not easy. For instance a high percentage of slaves are in the brick kilns of India, and that is NOT easy work. Also the hours are often really long, with no days off. Children as young as 5 or 6 are used in sex slavery. I wouldn’t call a 5 year old getting repeatedly raped everyday easy work. Oh and many of the organizations working to abolish modern day slavery are Christian orgs. As the church was also involved in ending legal slavery back in the day.
I believe that the rule “An eye for an eye” applies here.
Poor little one. I know plenty of people who would have loved to take good care of her.
“However, it does not glorify or condone these actions.”
…wow…just…WOW! You really, honestly have never actually read the bible have you? I mean…like…AT ALL! o_O Most of the entire book is droning on about smiting every other person around and how ~glorious~ it is. Seriously, do you really want me to start citing passages? Or maybe you should walk away real quietly…unless you really ~want~ me to break your religion. Your call.
This part was also great:
“because in that time period”
LOL, nothing like a MORAL RELATIVIST Christian!
You Christian ~freaks~ really are all just sick in the head when you get right down to it. I mean you all believe in talking snakes and magical trees, wizards and witches, magic and all sorts of other kooky nonsense. Every last one of you should be committed to an insane asylum…and you certainly shouldn’t be allowed to breed (lest we wind up with more cases like this).
I also love how they’re desperately trying to claim that they weren’t Christian. *snicker* Sorry kids, they were Christian, do some research. LOL, what am I saying?! Christians can’t even be bothered to read their own crazy bible, how can we expect such inferior psychopaths to do any research! LOL
And to that other doorknob, sorry, but it’s often the Christian “missionaries” and other religious types that get nailed for sexual exploitation of minors. That is in fact why many go into priesthood, the celibacy bit is no problem when you’re only attracted to kids and working overseas spreading the evul word of God is a real easy cover to sexually exploit kids.
Also, I never actually expressed a real opinion about it, I never said it was “right” or “wrong”, just that it is and that we need to be real careful about judging others circumstances based on ~our~ way of living, rather than theirs. And the fact is, if you completely abolished child labor in many countries…countless children would wind up starving to death. Does that make it “okay” to make them work long hours with no days off? No, it doesn’t, but until you can come up with a better option, other than STARVING TO DEATH, yeah…maybe you should just keep yer mouth shut? *shrugs*
It’s also very funny about what you say is “hard work”…LOL, you remind me of my older brother…the guy who couldn’t even work ONE DAY at a gas station because it was just ~too hard~…yeah, right. I started working myself as young as 10 and by 15 I had a “real” job washing dishes in this hot, stinky, smokey, nasty, greasy little roadside cafe doing work that someone like yourself probably couldn’t even manage to do for ONE DAY let alone YEARS on end. LOL
Disgusting. Being 13 myself, I cant even IMAGINE what it would be like for my parents to treat me like this. The ones that are supposed to feed me, nourish me, and encourage me to grow. Instead, they let this poor girl rot away her life. May the Lord have mercy on her soul.
I have a 13 y old daughter and when I saw the picture of Hana I felt physically ill- she looked so much like my child. I feel lucky to have a pretty good life but I know that if I were to be homeless tomorrow there is nothing I would not do for my daughter, I would go hungry so she could eat, I would sleep in the dirt so she could have a bed and anybody that wanted to harm her would have to kill me to get to her. Yes- she’s my biological child but I know in my heart that I would feel no different if she were adopted. Children are a blessing and every child deserves to be safe and loved and cared for. I’m going to be seing this little girls face for a long time to come. To the things that did this to her.. I cannot bring myself to think of them as parents or even humans…. I hope you will suffer unspeakably.
Sniffle :’( poor kids I hope they are okay and for poor little hana god bless your soul
P.S not so little hana considering she is older than me I am eleven
Jessica, yes, these are based on ‘to train up a child’ and other books by that loon, Ezzo. His methods are NOT christian. His methods have been linked to malnutrition, dehydration, failure-to-thrive and attatchment disorders. Sadly, these bookds are still sold nationwide. I personally hide ‘em whenever I see them.
I read these comments and so many of you cared what happend to her it’s so sad you didn’t have a chance to raise her with love and support.
Says a lot about our society which allows these monsters to continue living.
@Amy Agree,I’m a Christian and my family is strongly against the methods used in “To Train Up A Child” too. Also “To Train Up A Child” was found in that couple’s home to be exact.