Officials: Child Abuse Victims Were Adopted in D.C.

Officials: Child Abuse Victims Were Adopted in D.C.

News of the shocking deaths of two adopted children and abuse of another is having repercussions in several jurisdictions around the D.C. area.

Police sources tell FOX 5 that a 7-year-old girl escaped from her adoptive mother's home after she was starved and beaten over every inch of her body with a hard-heeled wooden shoe. The Calvert County Sheriff says the girl's adoptive mother is 43-year-old Renee Bowman, and that she has confessed to the beating.