How Could You? Hall of Shame Case Review-Wanda Ashley Stock and Cathy Rainbolt cases-Child Deaths
This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.
This is a case review of the deceased gunman who shot US Majority House Whip Steve Scalise.
From Belleville, Illinois, deceased foster father James Hodgkinson,” had a teenage foster daughter who committed suicide in 1996 by setting herself on fire, according to a report.”
“Wanda Ashley Stock, 17, had only been living with James Hodgkinson, 66, and his wife for a few months when the teen doused herself with gasoline and burned to death, the Daily Beast reported.”
“In the wake of her death, the Hodgkinsons told a local paper in Belleville, Illinois, that she was a “very practical, level-headed girl.”
Several years later, the family fostered another teen girl, whom they later lost custody of after Hodgkinson was accused of abusing her.
In 2006, he charged into a neighbor’s home where the foster daughter was hanging out with a friend, then-19-year-old Aimee Moreland, and smacked the pal in the face “with a closed fist,” according to the Daily Beast.
At one point, he allegedly pointed a shotgun at Moreland’s boyfriend and popped off one round.
Hodgkinson was also seen “throwing” the foster daughter “around the bedroom,” according to a police report. When she tried to escape, he “started hitting her arms, pulling her hair, and started grabbing her off the bed.”
“According to his foster daughter, he was always angry,” Moreland told the Daily Beast. “She was really unhappy there. She had come over to get away from them.”
During the dispute, Moreland said, she jumped in a car with her friend, but Hodgkinson opened the vehicle’s door and hit her, then used a knife to cut the seat belt off his foster daughter.
He was arrested for domestic battery and discharge of a firearm, but the charges were later dropped.”
GOP shooter’s foster daughter committed suicide by fire
[NY Post 6/15/17 by Tamar Lapin and Danika Fears]
“Teenager Cathy Rainbolt told a judge her foster father hit her in the face when she failed to mow the lawn correctly. She got hit in the face when she argued. She got hit and dragged by the hair when she tried to get away
Her foster father was James “Tom” Hodgkinson, who is now infamous after shooting U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, two police officers and a staffer on a Virginia ballfield Wednesday. Rainbolt told the judge that Hodgkinson drank every day.
“I didn’t mark a time when (Hodgkinson) started hitting me,” Rainbolt told St. Clair County Circuit Judge James Radcliffe during a hearing Nov. 21, 2006. “It’s been hard to live with (an alcoholic) and how (he) treated me,” Rainbolt said.
The transcript of the hearing was unsealed, along with the rest of Rainbolt’s juvenile file, after a request by the Belleville News-Democrat was granted by Circuit Judge Jan Fiss on Friday afternoon. Rainbolt died in 2015 of a drug overdose after a life “mixed with human suffering and laughter,” her obit read.
Hodgkinson was killed Wednesday by police to halt his shooting spree. Sue Hodgkinson has been under police protection and could not be reached Friday. She granted an interview Thursday and then asked the media to leave her alone.
Rainbolt was asked at the hearing whether she had been abused in any other way.
“There was no sexual abuse or anything like that. It was emotional and verbal abuse,” she answered.
Illinois Department of Childen[sic] and Family Services spokeswoman Veronica Resa confirmed the Hodgkinsons were foster parents from 1990 to 2003. She declined to answer further questions, citing privacy laws.
Rachele Putnam, Rainbolt’s biological mother, lost custody of her and her two sisters in 1995 when Cathy was 6. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services placed Cathy in Don Bosco Children’s Home in Belleville after determining her mother’s boyfriend sexually abused her 9- and 8-year-old sisters.
DCFS also found that Cathy’s biological father, Michael Putnam, sexually abused the girls, as well as their paternal grandfather.
Cathy was placed in a foster home, attended counseling and made monthly visits to her father in prison.
Around 2002, the 13-year-old went to live with the Hodgkinsons. She took their last name and became Cathy Hodgkinson. The Hodgkinsons opted not to adopt Cathy, but instead chose a “subsidized guardianship” for their grand-niece.”
Congressional shooter was abusive alcoholic, foster daughter told judge before death
[Mcclatchy dc 6/17/17 by
TWO Foster daughters dead!!!! 
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