A mother who kills her children.
354243
Very well written. An awful story of a mother who kills her children and tries to blame a stranger. The police do an amazing job of tracking down the truth. All books by Ann Rule are well written. They are factual but have the impact of a well written thriller.
2114180
Three generations of a family and the ups and downs of married life with a murder thrown into the mix.
238463
This book is based on a true story.  You'll learn to hate most of the characters..except for the girl named Tuesday.  Her mother is the monster that continuely abuses this poor child.  Her father is a spineless man who is afraid he'll upset his controlling wife if he interfers.  Two brothers are also afraid of the mother and will do as they are told.  This book brings to light the abuse that can go undetected for years in families that appear functional.  Your heart will cry for Tuesday.
2264328
This true story is really sick. The victim and her sister were left to live with the woman in exchange for payments from their parents who went to another state to work. The woman had offered to take them in because she was very poor and needed the money, and it would not be any trouble as both girls were helpful.

However, this woman and mother of 7 kids ranging from an infant to 16, soon began to verbally and physically abuse the older sister while terrifying the younger one into keeping quiet. She allowed and encouraged her own children and their friends to routinely abuse the girl, who was extremely passive and would not do anything to defend herself, verbally, physically, and even sexually. She also starved the girl.

When the girl died from a head wound with starvation and many other injuries as contributing factors, this woman called 911 and tried to claim that it was an accident. The medical examiner found 100 cigarette burns on the body.

The public was not at all sympathetic with this woman's claims that the kids were at fault and not her. I think that she should have gotten the death penalty, though the governor at the time and courts had giving anyone the death penalty up in the air as far as it not being overturned.

I think it's important to know about evil like this case. Too many people don't believe things like this case can happen, and that makes them vulnerable, and they may refuse to accept something bad is happening and make the rest of us vulnerable.
3093194
She was just to stupid, annoying and pathetic to like.

I know he is your dad.  But your dad tried to kill you, he shot you and he killed a man who was trying to protect you.  Why would she not want him dead?  Not to mention he hits her and wants to kill her baby.  But no don't kill him.  If some one tries to kill you, why should you stop their death.  He was no longer your dad when he pulled the trigger to kill you.

You tried to make her all strong and bad but really just a stupid, weak, sad and pathetic girl.

She goes to the hospital alone, yes alone to the people who stood by while her dad tried to kill her and did kill a "brother".  At this point, I'm done, she should put her baby first, her safety to not have any harm to her child.  But nope, she just continues to do stupid things.  I mean her mom stood by never protected her and she is doing the same thing for her child.  Dad already beat her once and tried to kill her, why won't he do it again?

And really, where was the ending, what happen, to many things left unsaid and rushed.

Please, stop making women so stupid.
2592479
A book about a boy taking revenge on his mother who used him in her epic battle with religious tyranny.  Nothing more.
4556350
Three children have been killed by their parents following the instructions in these books. Don't buy it! Contact booksellers to stop carrying these books which should be titled "How to abuse your children without child protective services finding out!"

This minister is telling everyone I know that this is child abuse, not discipline!
3722668
It was hard for me to think a Mother would do what this woman did.  She was encouraging murder to take care of problems.
1928213
This woman was definitely a diminutive blonde with greed on her mind who thought nothing of murdering to get what she wanted.  She was the vilest of women to accuse her own children of the murders she committed.  Certainly a one of a kind woman who would use her own wishing well as a crypt for her husbands, yes two of them.
421879
It is 1911 in Skip Rock, Kentucky. Armina Tippen decides to pick blueberries along Tattler's Branch Road. She has an episode where black spot appear before her eyes and she blacks out. When she wakes, Armina sees a man and a woman physically fighting. The two fall into the river. Then, in horror, Armina watches as the man raises a large rock and hits the woman in the head, blood flying everywhere. She watches as the man gets a shovel and supplies for what Armina assumes is to dig a grave when she hears a baby cry. While the killer is digging, Armina sneaks to an open window in the bedroom where she finds the baby in a basket. Armina takes the basket, grabs some cloth diapers off the clothes line and runs as fast as the dickens can carry her.

When Dr. Lilly Corbett Still arrives home from work, she finds her kitchen table is empty. Lilly's little sister has not seen Armina since breakfast. Worried, Lilly sends Mazy to Armina's house to check on her. Mazy finds Armina lying on the floor making an awful gurgling sound. With the help of a neighbor, they carry Armina to Doc Lilly's house. A quick exam proves Armina is suffering from "Saint Vitus' dance brought on by untreated rheumatic fever." Armina is in for a rough few days.

When Lilly is ready for bed, her dog begs to be taken out. Usually Kip is good about staying in the yard without a leash, but tonight he makes a mad dash to Armina's house. When Lilly enters, she hears a baby cry. Confused as to why Armina would have a baby, Doc Lilly sets out to exam and feed her. She finds that the baby girl has a weak heart, a cleft palate and is a mongoloid. Three strikes against this baby's life. She brings the baby to her clinic where one of her night nurses offered to take the baby home and act as her wet nurse. Armina's memory is foggy at best. She does not remember the day she took the baby. No one in town is looking for a baby, so who does she belong to?

I GIVE THIS BOOK: 3 Stars

While this story only lasts for a week, it is slow going. I had an ARC eBook and it was not unto 40% into the book that we find out if someone is looking for the baby.

I found the description of things to be confusing. I could not visualize anything. The personality of the baby's father does not match his actions and I did not find it believable. Yet everything gets tied up with a bow at the end. This book, simple as it was, just did not sit right with me.

Until next time, live life one page at a time!
137426
A mummy, a ghost woman who cries for her dead children? How is this ok to read to my child?
3115033
This is such a heart wrenching story.  The determination this mother has as she searches for answers to solve the mystery of her sons murder is unimaginable.  She grasps the readers attention immediately that you can't help but to not put down the book.
3534646
This book was way too brief. Each chapter dealt with another mother and explained too briefly what her crime was,  how many children she had killed and what the punishment was at the conclusion of their trial.  It was a matter of fact With absolutely no frills included and thus made the book a wee,bit boring.  If one has never heard or read about these women than the reader will know everything that is pertinent to the case by reading this book.  Unfortunately I have read books on each of these women and there are a lot more details to,know.
3851172
This is the true crime story of a woman (Debora Green) who tried to murder all three of her children but succeeded in killing only two of them, by burning them alive in their home.  She also tried to poison her husband with ricin but was only able to get him to the brink of death after three tries.  She was a doctor who had to give up her practice because of her severe lack of social skills.  Her husband was also a doctor who liked a clean house and neat, well-behaved kids at all times.  She was totally disinterested in that sort of thing.  Though they always had plenty of money, they had some intimacy problems as well as other incompatibilities.  Finally the husband asked for a divorce and began seeing another woman.  The wife (Debora Green) decided to get even by killing him and their three children.  She pled "no contest" in a deal to avoid the death penalty and was sentenced to 40 years without the possibility of parole.  She feared the death penalty, but seemed nonchalant about the terror her children faced as they were burned to death.  Everything was always about her.  I have always opposed the death penalty, but in this case, I don't think it would have bothered me too much.  She'll be about 85 when she gets out of prison, probably still bent on getting even.
1254632
You never know how many people are living under cover and this book just shows you that it really does happen. It will have you asking how could a mother treat her children like this because of this man. But it happens out here for real. Women sometimes don't want their children to keep them from getting the man that they think is right for them and then there are some women who don't want people to know that they have a child like this in their family. Then for the mother to let this man/her husband beat the living daylights out of her child is crazy. It will have you shaking you head trying to understand why the mother is letting this happen to her child.
773843
Doing Violence to Children is exactly what this book is about. This frenzied, quasi-psychotic mother makes it clear that she hates parenting, hates children, and yearns to return to her happy single child-free life. What to do? Not learn how to parent humanely, but to write a book justifying her hostility to her children, the tactics she uses to fight them off, and, tho unqualified in early childhood education, recommends that readers do what she does: whack them with "flexible rods". Yes. And even whip toddlers who are barely out of the crib. She demands instant obedience of small children not yet capable of understanding what is demanded - only that they are terrified by the one on which they depend for survival.
  Then she tells us she is obeying God. Stop right here: Anyone who has read the Gospels knows that it was this kind of cruelty and insanity that Jesus came to remedy, teaching gentleness and compassion. It breaks my heart to think of the years of suffering ahead for her children - for this kind of treatment continues to punish life-long. As for her readers, they, too must undergo years of profound anxiety and conflict if they take Ms. Ploughman's Alabama-style fetchin' up to heart.
  There are rare moments of honesty and sanity: "Actually, if you could visit my home and see my failures you probably would not have purchased this book." Listen up, parents: this book is a serious danger to children. - Norm Lee, author of "Parenting Without Punishing"
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A mother that died too young, a drunk father, a baby, a rival aunt and uncle, a baby daddy that runs away, a death of a couple, a job, a dress for a funeral, a stolen baby,  etc etc. Really now, all that in a couple of hundred pages.