Around 5:30 AM on October 18, a woman at home in a residential neighborhood in Houston heard a loud knocking at her door.
When the woman went to see who it was, she spotted a set of teenage twins. The boy and the girl, age 16, had handcuffs on their wrists and they were wearing very little clothing.
An adoptive mother of four was criminally charged after she was accused of inflicting years of vicious abuse upon one of her children.
47-year-old Patricia Diane Hyler and her husband live in Pace, Florida with their four adopted children.
Hyler, who has experience as a teacher from working at Capstone Academy, and as a teacher at a church, has reportedly homeschooled the children for the past two years.
The parents of a 2-year-old boy are facing charges after it was reportedly discovered that their child was underweight, starving, riddled with broken bones, and suffering a brain injury.
21-year-old Jade Newman, and Delane Bostic, 25, live in Fayetteville, North Carolina and have a toddler son.
Earlier this month, Newman and Bostic brought their son to the hospital for medical attention.
The Orange County Criminal Lawyer Blog