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A Georgia lady was sentenced to 30 years in jail for the bodily, psychological, and emotional abuse of her three stepchildren, in keeping with officers.
Nora Rodgers pleaded responsible on Oct. 9 to 9 counts of Cruelty to Youngsters within the First diploma, the Newton County District Legal professional’s Workplace introduced in a press launch.
In October 2020, regulation enforcement responded to Rodgers’ residence after a involved relative reported her, in keeping with the discharge. The kids — ages 9, eight and 6 — have been discovered with indicators of bodily abuse, together with bruising and swelling.
The nine-year-old boy had a black eye and extreme bruising on his legs and the eight-year-old woman had bruises masking her physique and scrapes and marks from bodily punishments.
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Nora Rodgers pleaded responsible on Oct. 9 to 9 counts of Cruelty to Youngsters within the First diploma. (Newton County District Attorneys Workplace)
The six-year-old woman suffered probably the most important bodily accidents, in keeping with the district lawyer’s workplace. She had scrapes, swelling and bruising masking her complete physique, in addition to a damaged elbow. She additionally suffered extreme inside accidents from the beatings, which may have led to her loss of life and required remedy by Youngsters’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s trauma crew.
The kids have been compelled to do excessive bootcamp-style workouts, together with working laps, doing squats with giant logs from the yard and leaping jacks, for prolonged durations of time to the purpose of exhaustion and harm. Rodgers would typically make them carry out these workouts in the course of the night time and in the summertime warmth.
If the kids didn’t carry out the workouts to Rodgers’ requirements, she would beat them.
The Division of Household and Youngsters Companies had beforehand instructed Rodgers she could not use train or corporal punishment, however that didn’t deter her.
The three kids have been additionally discovered malnourished, as Rodgers would underfeed them and withhold meals as a type of punishment. She would impose closing dates for them to eat their meals and he or she would mix their strong meals right into a drink, so they may eat quicker.
Notably, Rodgers’ three organic kids, who have been additionally residing within the residence, weren’t subjected to the identical feeding restrictions or bodily workouts as her stepchildren.
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Nora Rodgers was sentenced to 30 years in jail for the bodily, psychological, and emotional abuse of her three stepchildren. (iStock)
All six kids have been faraway from the house and positioned in foster care after regulation enforcement grew to become concerned.
Throughout a sentencing listening to on Dec. 12, Rodgers was sentenced to 60 years on probation, with the primary 30 years to be served in jail. Affect statements from the kid victims, foster mother and father, a social employee, and the kids’s grandmother explaining how Rodgers’ abuse affected the kids have been delivered through the listening to.
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“The devoted work of the prosecution crew led to a end result that ensures that the victims might be nicely into maturity earlier than Rodgers will get out of jail,” District Legal professional Randy McGinley mentioned in an announcement. “The DA’s Workplace sought justice for the victims but in addition that Rodgers can be in jail lengthy sufficient that she couldn’t hurt these kids or another kids. The prosecutors laborious work led to a responsible plea with an acceptable sentence with out the kids having to testify at size and relive the abuse they confronted.”
“A particular thanks goes to the foster mother and father who cared for the kids after their abuse and household of the kids who reported the abuse,” the assertion continued. “Whereas Rodgers put herself above the well-being of the children, so many others fought for them.”
