What Will Happen to the Children?

Another article that originally appeared on The Atlasphere. It is inadequate to say that it is depressing to hear of children in horrendous situations. The one ray of hope that we, and they, have is self-determination. A person’s past does not have to determine their future, and I have faith that these children will find the strength to overcome the situations that befell them through no fault of their own.

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What Will Happen to the Children?

By Tara Overzat

Twice in one week. A family in Lavonia, Georgia, (on the South Carolina-Georgia border) and one in Jackson, Alabama. Horrific stories of abuse and imprisonment of two families – one with four children, the other with eight.

Raymond Daniel Thurmond kept his wife and four children locked up in a filthy double-wide trailer for three years. The mother and children were never allowed outside and were so well-hidden that the neighbors were not even aware that Thurmond had a family. Read more »