Audio statement details torture of 10-year-old Victor Barahona

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People who torture and abuse children should receive the same fate. This is horrific.



In the months following the death of his twin sister, Nubia, Victor Barahona revealed the horrifying incidents of abuse by his adopted father. When he and his twin sister were bound by the wrists and ankles in the bathtub of their West Miami-Dade house, Victor Barahona’s adopted father doused them with ice water or bleach.

A few times, Jorge Barahona wrapped a plastic bag around the 10-year-old boy’s head, then choked him until he nearly passed out.

Another time, the elder Barahona glued the boy’s eyes shut and once made him eat a cockroach.

At mealtimes, Victor and his twin sister Nubia could eat only bread and milk, maybe once a week in the bathtub, while the other children in the home dined on shredded beef, rice and beans.

Any leftovers from the “good food” would go to the family’s dog.

These are the memories of torture that Victor Barahona relayed to his caretaker in the months following the February 2011 arrest of his adopted parents, Jorge and Carmen Barahona.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/06/2628268/audio-statement-detail-torture.html#storylink=cpy

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1. I don't know

if I am more angry or just sad.
I am somewhat involved with foster care (help at a charity that tries to provide support for foster parents and foster kids once they are over 18) and I know what a struggle it can be for children that are placed with caring parents. I can only imagine the pain these 2 kids had to go through.

[HughBeaumont]

2. I've long since stopped believing people are generally good. Now that conviction is solidified.

[font size=6]It Bears Repeating.[/font]

[BlueCaliDem]

3. I have always contended that people are not inherently good

They have to learn to be as they mature. Most learn to put self aside and see the brighter side of things, while some stay stagnant in their bad ways no matter how old they are.

I have long believed that ever since the first person who abused me with the help of his little sister who I thought was my friend.

Yes, it bears repeating. Again and again. Maybe then we'll learn to get beyond the navel-gazing when interacting with other people, and be the people we all hope and want to believe we should be.