UPDATE TUES 9/30/08: I’m watching CNN now and they’re telling the story. What a brave girl that escaped from that home through the window, and thank God…really…for neighbor Phillip Garrett who found this little girl walking alongside the road- bloody and beaten. I am fighting tears as I type and think about how it must have felt for her to learn that her sisters were actually dead. She just knew that she hadn’t seen them. How crazy is that?!?
How the hell did this Renee woman move these 2 dead children being hidden in a chest freezer from her prior home in Rockville out to Lusby, MD? Why????
I hope this courageous little girl gets into a GREAT foster home and even better permanent adoption situation.
I’m sure there’s more to this story that will unfold…
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Maryland is my home state so this news naturally caught my attention.
How odd is this story? I cannot relate in the least to what must go through the minds of psychopaths like this when they do this kind of crazy shit.
I’m still searching for more details, but there’s not a lot of info out there right now other than the below press release from Associated Press.
LUSBY, Md – Calvert County sheriff’s deputies have discovered the bodies of two small children in a freezer in a Lusby home.
Authorities say they found them Saturday as they were investigating a report of an injured child. A woman who says the girls were her adopted daughters has been arrested, according to The Washington Post. Forty-three-year-old Renee Bowman told deputies that the remains had been frozen since at least February.
The sheriff’s office says a third girl was found by investigators Saturday after escaping from a locked bedroom by jumping out the window. Officials say Bowman told investigators she beat the 7-year-old.
She is charged with child abuse in connection with that girl. Bowman has been ordered held without bond.
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I too, live in Lusby MD. I would of never expected this kind of shit to go down right down the street from me. That bitch is crazy!
I just found out from my neighbor about this… WTF!!!
I want to send that little brave girl stuffed animals clothes let her know she is loved I wish I could hug her and take all her pain away I’d like her to know her sisters are alive in heaven with Jesus Christ where the devil will never touch them again them she’s in my prayers all the days of my life my prayer is that she feels Jesus Christ’s love all the days of her Jesus said suffer all little children to come unto me if anyone reading this ever beat a child just ask Jesus Christ to help you not to hurt the child and to take that evil away from you tell him from your heart keep praying keep asking him he will help you
@Sally- nice comment. you bring up a good point. i wonder if there is any organized effort for people to offer donations to benefit this girl. i’ll have to do some research to find out, unless someone offers the info on this page.
@Bradley and Cara- I’m sure this is super shocking news to hear about in your own town. Nobody likes their town to be put in the national spotlight for something so wicked.
I also live down the street. I have been tryen to keep up with this story. I can say that I was told that there is alot of info in the washington post about the trial on the selfish bitch.
HERE IS WHAT I FOUND…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100101733.html
PS..Anyone who wants to donate money, clothes, toys or other items for the girl can send them to the Calvert County Department of Social Services, care of Calvert’s Child, 200 Duke St., Prince Frederick, Md. 20678.