Two Michigan couples are arrested for conspiring to adopt dozens of children from foster care before subjecting them to 'routine mental and physical abuse': Received more than $1 million in tax-free money from the state
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Joel Brown, 54, and Tammy Brown, 53, and Jerry Flore, 58, and Tamal Flore, 56, were indicted on 36 of child abuse charges Tuesday
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel found evidence that they abused eight of the nearly 30 adopted children in their care dating back to 2007
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Nessel also accuses them of taking more than $1million from the state of Michigan tax-free by manipulating the foster and adoption care system
Two Michigan couples have been charged in a scheme to adopt nearly 30 children whom they used to acquire state funding while covering up patterns of mental and physical abuse against them.
Joel Brown, 54, and Tammy Brown, 53, and Jerry Flore, 58, and Tamal Flore, 56, were indicted on 36 of child abuse charges Tuesday.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel brought the charges after they found evidence that they abused eight of the adopted children who have been in their care dating back to 2007.
The Flores face the most charges, with Tamal indicted on 17 and Jerry on 11, including first-degree child abuse counts that could see them imprisoned for life. All four of the adoptive parents face charges ranging from conspiracy to commit child abuse and failing to report child abuse.
Two Michigan couples have been charged in a scheme to adopt nearly 30 children whom they used to acquire state funding while covering up patterns of mental and physical abuse against them. The couples, who both live in the Michigan town of DeWitt, conspired to adopt the kids through Joel Brown, who once worked for Michigan Department of Health and Human Service's children's services agency.
The indictment accuses him of using 'his expertise in the field of child abuse investigations and the child protection laws to circumvent detection of the ongoing child abuse in his own home and that of the Flores.' Both couples would regularly abuse their children and disguise it as simple punishment.
'The Brown and Flore families preyed upon dozens of children who were removed from previously abusive biological homes and subjected the children to prolonged routine and systemic mental and physical abuse under the guise of discipline,' Nessel said in a statement. 'These two families have adopted or fostered at least 30 children toward an end of immense financial gain.'
>Shockingly, both couples had faced child abuse charges before but they had either been dismissed or reduced.
>Shockingly, both couples had faced child abuse charges before but they had either been dismissed or reduced.
>Shockingly, both couples had faced child abuse charges before but they had either been dismissed or reduced.
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