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“They make it sound like I tortured him, but I loved him,” Valerie Herrman said in an interview with The Eagle. She denied allegations, from her sister and two biological children that she punched and kicked Adam over the years, beat him with a belt buckle and kept him chained to the bathtub faucet in the home. She also denied that she withheld food from Adam…
“He slept in the bathtub,” she said, with a sleeping bag, sheet, pillow and blanket. He was locked in only at night, and it was for his and their protection, she said. “There was no chains, no handcuffs.”
Asked how long he was kept in the bathroom at night, she said it occurred possibly over a two- to three-month period, although she couldn’t remember exactly how long…
Psychiatrists said Adam was either bipolar or schizophrenic or suffering from attachment disorder, they said."
Tuossa adoptioäidin mukaan lapsella olisi sanottu olevan joko bipolaarinen, skitsofrenia tai kiintymyssuhdehäiriö, ei sekä että. Eiköhän tämän voi tulkita niin, että psykiatrilla oli ehkä käyty ja jotain piirteitä ongelmista ehkä havaittu, mutta ei ollut annettu diagnoosia sen enempää skitsofreniasta kuin bipolaarisestakaan? Olisi kyllä melkoinen ihme jos kiintymyssuhteet eivät olisi häiriintyneitä jos tuollaisessa häiriintyneessä ympäristössä joutuu kasvamaan.
Äiti on ilmeisesti suurimpana syntipukkina pidetty tässä jutussa. Paljonpuhuvaa on se, että ilmoituksen lapsen katoamisesta ja epäilyistään teki loppuviimeksi perheen biologinen tytär. Samasta blogista toinen vanhentunut linkki:
Jos lapsi vain lähti karkuun ja on ollut 10 vuotta teillä tietymättömillä, niin mistä äiti tietäisi, että hänen ruumiinsa ei ole haudattu Kansasiin?“We started this, which was hard against our own parents as we were not adopted,” Crystal said. “But we want more than anything to find the truth, answers and justice.”
Crystal also talks of Adam being abused.
“We pray every day our parents will come forward,” Crystal said. “Do the right thing not only for what they already put Adam through in the past, but to make it right for him now.”
Meanwhile, a former relative, who says she remains close to one of Valerie Herrman’s sisters, says the sister told her that Valerie recently commented, “They can dig up the whole state of Kansas, they’ll never find a body.”