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you don't do it

in public places, and...

gone over that with her and

it never seemed to face her.

And...

Julie, how often would your

daughter masturbate?

Daily. Constantly.

- Do you have animals, Beth?

- Four of them.

Can you tell me their names?

Clyde, Chucky, Tarsi and Annie.

And daddy said... a day ago,

that... there's also a stray cat.

He did not have a home so daddy is...

was taking care of it

and took it to the vet when

he can start running and like to get

- And, what do you do to the animals, Beth?

- Stick them with pins.

- Do you stick 'em a little bit or a lot?

- A lot.

What are you trying to do to

the animals, Beth?

- Kill them. - What do they do

when you stick them with the pins?

Well, Annie cries...

she's a dog.

She got baby birds

down out of the nest.

We thought maybe

she was just curious.

So we explained that she could hurt

them... put them back.

And went through a whole sitting down and

talking to her about the problem of it.

And the next day we went out to

check the baby birds and they were

on the ground dead

with their necks broken.

Let's talk about what happened

once when you were smaller,

when you... when you

found some baby birds in a... in a tree.

- What did you do to them?

- I took them out.

And what did mom say to you?

That the mother

would not come back

if somebody touches her babies.

Are the baby birds kind of small?

Can you describe them for me?

Well, they don't have

their eyes open

but they can hear... hear me

and they would go up.

Are they kinda helpless,

little baby birds?

- Can they fly?

- No.

Can they run away?

- Yes. - They can? Are they easy

to catch or hard to catch?

- Hard.

- Yeah, well it's hard to remember.

- With the baby birds, what did you do?

- Took them out of the tree.

- And what did you do?

- Played around too rough.

I saw one at the end,

I picked it up,

and I thought it was dead

and I came to say

"Mommy, is this bird dead?"

and she said...

she called daddy

and said "Tim", and...

and daddy came and...

I think I remember

that they said yes.

And so... so did

the little baby birds die?

I don't know.

- You don't remember?

- I just remember, the last thing

I remember that mommy and daddy said

the last bird we got was dead.

Do you know what mom said to me?

She said that all of them were dead.

Did you squeeze 'em? Did baby

Beth squeeze them?

You're doing a good job, honey, go

ahead and tell me what happened.

- I squeezed them.

- And what happened?

They died.

And this kind of aggression in our animals

and even at her brother Jonathan

was beginning to grow

to such an excess

that our life was

miserable at home;

we had, John would cry

in the mornings

and said his stomach hurt,

we, for the longest time, we thought

maybe this child has... has some

problem with his intestinal area

or maybe has allergies and so we'd

try to get all of that checked out.

Come to find out Beth was coming out

of her room and hitting him in the stomach.

And so as a last resort, just to

protect him, we had to tie her door shut.

So I guess for, what...

the last three or four months now,

we've had to tie her in at night,

sort of barricade her.

The repercussions of

Beth's tragic childhood

led to uncontrollable rage,

despite the love and nurturing

of her adoptive parents,

she took this rage out on herself,

on her brother and on them.

Her acts of violence became

more and more cruel and frightening.

Well, I noticed several like pair of knives

in the kitchen missing,

and my first thought was Beth

and I felt a little guilty

about it at first,

but... I really didn't

even mention it to her

and it'd been gone several weeks.

She was sitting at the table, drawing

and mentioned to me,

"What are those knives look like,

that are gone, mom?".

And I said, "What knives,

Beth?", and uhm,

she said, "Weren't they kind of silver

and about this big?".

And... I knew the end,

and this little smile,

that's not a sweet smile

but a malicious type of smile,

and I knew then,

I thought she's got them.

Tell me about the knives,

where did you get them?

From the drawer.

And, where else?

Do you remember?

Tell me about it.

- I got them from the dishwasher.

- What kind of knives?

- Big, sharp ones. - And what do you

wanna do with those knives?

Kill John and mommy

with them, and daddy.

And when mommy asks you about

where the knives are, what do you say?

I don't know where they are.

What did you think

she might do with the knives?

My first thought was Jonathan.

And the reason we thought

that was that... she had,

by this time, she had tried to kill

Jonathan on several occasions

and openly admitted that.

In the basement, she was hitting

his head against the cement floor,

I heard screams and ran down

and had to literally pull her hands

off and she looked wide-eyed.

Did you get real mad at him?

Did you hit his head real hard?

Tell me about it. How many times

did you do it? A lot?

What was the floor like?

- Cement. - And what happened

to your brother, tell me about it.

His head hurt real bad,

but his chin, he had to

have stitches in it.

Could you stop?

- Use your words Beth.

- No.

Okay. What was your brother doing

when you were doing this?

Playing with the toys.

Okay. Was he asking you to stop

when you... when you were doing it?

What was he saying?

He said, "Beth, stop!"

And what did you do?

I didn't stop.

I just kept on hurting him.

What were you thinking

when you were doing that?

Thinking of killing him.

How did you stop?

What made you stop?

When I heard people walking

across the kitchen.

That made me stop because I thought

mommy and daddy would come.

Okay. Did mommy come?

What did she do?

- She sent me to my room.

- Okay.

And what if mommy didn't stop you,

what would you have done?

Kept on doing it.

After evaluating the status

of Beth's psychological problems,

Dr. Magid felt that for the well

being of the family,

Beth needed to be temporarily

separated from them.

In April of 1989,

her parents brought her

to a special home with

an expert at raising children

with early attachment disorders,

especially children who were dangerous

to themselves and others.

I have children that

have killed numerous times.

Cold blooded family members,

neighbor, children, killed them.

And they can do it.

Makes my blood run cold just to

think about it! 9 years old.

People don't think a 9-year-old is capable

of cold-blooded murder but they are.

That attachment break

that severe damaged to the heart,

the ability to care

and the ability to love.

They don't care and they don't love,

their capable of anything.

We're very strict,

very strict about everything.

Everything is completely monitored.

We take complete control,

because a child who's

unattached does not trust.

And because they don't trust, they don't

allow anybody to be boss of them.

So we take complete control,

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