UNITED STATES
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HANA Williams was supposed to have a better life in the United States.
Instead, the Ethiopian teenager was subjected to horrifying abuse at the hands of her adoptive parents, Larry and Carri. Then, three years after travelling to the US from an African orphanage, Hana was found dead in her own backyard.
Carri Williams has since been convicted of “homicide by abuse” and sentenced to 37 years in prison. Her husband Larry will serve 28 years. The pair terrorised a household of nine children, two of whom were adopted, with a strict disciplinary regime that turned deadly on May 11, 2011. …
The Williams family lived on an isolated, 5.6-acre property in Sedro-Woolley, a small town deep in the American northwest. Larry and Carri practised a fundamentalist brand of Christianity while homeschooling their children and banning most TV and internet access, Slate reports.
The couple’s strict parenting style appears to have been taken from the book To Train Up A Child, which has been implicated in the deaths of two other adoptees. While the Williams’ biological children were seemingly well “trained”, their two adopted kids, Hana and Immanuel, were often singled out for brutal punishment.
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