Parents charged with starving daughter
A Sheriff’s Sargent in Carnation, Washington is calling a child abuse case “the worst [he’s] ever seen”. Rebecca Long and Jon Pomeroy are being charged with criminal mistreatment for allegedly starving their 14-year-old daughter for years. The girl was found weighing only 50 pounds — the same weight as when she was 9.
Long and Pomeroy were arrested Friday after a two-month investigation that began when a neighbor called Child Protective Services to report screaming from the couple’s Carnation home. They were booked into the King County Jail and were being held on warrants issued Monday, with bail set at $20,000.
A deputy noted that the girl looked pale, emaciated and half her age.
The girl told police that her stepmother disciplined her for behavioral problems by restricting her water intake, giving her half a Dixie cup of water each day. Long allegedly monitored the girl’s showers and wouldn’t let her brush her teeth so she couldn’t sneak drinks. She fed her a diet mostly of toast, court documents say.
Information from: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/3830...


