Addiction’s innocent victims: Fetal alcohol syndrome ravages Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
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Top: In the chaos of a large family getting ready for school, Jeremy Boesem, 9, hugs his mom, Nora, while she tube-feeds son A.J., 9, in their home in Newell, South Dakota. The other Boesem children in the picture are, from left, Mark, 3; Kayleigh, 9, and Rachel, 14. All of the children were adopted by Boesem and her husband, Randy. 
Each child was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. (RYAN SODERLIN/THE WORLD-HERALD)
http://dataomaha.com/bigstory/news/addictions-innocent-victims
By Paul Hammel / World-Herald staff writer
Sunday, October 11, 2015
NEWELL, S.D. — In one arm, Nora Boesem held a 9-year-old boy who sobbed as he told of being beaten up on the bus ride home from school.
In the other arm, she cradled a 4-year-old girl, who was being fed through a tube in her stomach.
Across the room, another 9-year-old boy, whose wrists are permanently bent at 90-degree angles due to a birth defect, paced the floor.
And darting across the living room was a 3-year-old boy, who hurled a plastic toy against a wall.
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are a damning indictment of SD and NE's "benign neglect" and of the BIA's policies.
Thanks for posting Steve. Always glad to read interesting stuff from the World Herald (newspaper of reference from my home state).
