A foster mom in Worcester landed herself in court earlier this week, facing two charges of child abuse, for her horrendous disciplinary measures.

The 52-year-old, who lives with her biological daughter and 11 foster children, stands accused of chaining up her 16-year-old foster daughter, claiming the child created “lust-inducing” Facebook pages to solicit attention.

She is also accused of beating her 15-year-old biological daughter for the same reason.

We’ll hand over to TimesLIVE:

She meted out the punishments after the teenagers created what the woman called “fake” Facebook pages containing a plethora of photos of themselves in an apparent attempt to attract attention from boys.

According to a Facebook rant by the mother, a fervent Zionist judging by her public posts, the children’s accounts attracted “5,000 mostly boys friends they mostly don’t know from around the world (sic)”.

Last weekend, SAPS informed social workers that there were 12 children in the Scherpenheuwel area who needed assistance, and the children have now been removed and taken to safe premises.

The Worcester police’s family violence, child protection and sexual offences (FCS) unit said that the 16-year-old child had been “cuffed with a chain around the neck as a punishment for three days”.

The mother vented her feelings on Facebook two days after the children were removed. She said it was the children, their friends who knew about the girls’ Facebook pages and the father of the 16-year-old, who called the police, whose hearts needed changing.

She said she was shocked to discover the profiles and see that a “school secretary, a father and a cousin” were among those listed as the teenagers’ friends.

If the Facebook pages were designed to attract attention, they worked. The eldest girl’s posts regularly achieved hundreds of likes and both teenagers received comments and likes from much older men around the country and beyond…

The woman accused the 16-year-old of “running dangerously … after a disrespectful boy” and claimed that all the children who were taken away had been influenced by the two girls’ “rebellious streak”.

This abusive woman sounds like she is living circa 1950.

Oh, and she’s clearly not all that familiar with the legal might of Facebook:

She also seemed to be planning a lawsuit against Facebook to stop it allowing “fake names and illustrious [sic] pages”.

“If need be, let it go viral, but we cannot stand for our children being allowed to go down these paths. Check your kids friends’ friendship lists to see if your kids have anything like this, any ‘hidden’ pages, alter-egos. It’s rampant and we need to do something to stop it,” she said.

Watch out for the 2020 headline, ‘Woman from Worcester singlehandedly takes down Facebook’.

Looks like she’s gone viral, but not for the reasons she wanted.

I guess that’s what happens when you chain up and beat your children.

[source:timeslive]