And just who is this Carole DeLeon?
She is one of those people you'd like to see in hell.
Carole Ann DeLeon is a foster monster who beat and starved several foster and adopted children, one to death.
Dehydration is the official cause of death, but authorities think Tyler suffered a variety of abuses at the hands of his adoptive mother, Carole DeLeon, a woman who led a seemingly ordinary life as a paralegal with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Spokane.
Records released this week by the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) say that between 1988 and 2005, DeLeon had deprived at least four other adoptive or foster children of food and that she was accused of punishing her biological children by withholding food, as well. Yet DSHS didn't recognize the pattern until after Tyler died in January 2005.
The records, which document DeLeon's history with DSHS and the investigations into Tyler's death, say that while in DeLeon's care, one 12-year-old girl's hands were tied behind her back so she couldn't get food; a 9-year-old girl dropped from 176 pounds to 104 in less than a year; a pre-school-age girl gained just 3 pounds in two years; and a boy of 7 went from above-average weight to 34 pounds, below the fifth percentile, in four years with DeLeon. Some of them said they were beaten, as well.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003765789_abuse28m.html
Seven-year-old Tyler DeLeon died in 2005 of thirst and starvation.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004059976_deleon08m.html
Civil claims totaling $55 million have been filed against the state by the families of children for whom DeLeon provided care. Over the years, she took in 14 foster children and adopted five of them, according to DSHS.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20070715&slug=deleon15m
The state will pay more than $6 million to former foster children of Carole DeLeon, including the estate of the 7-year-old who died of starvation in her care.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008415845_webfosterchild20m.html
Foster mother whose son starved to be released from prison
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