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  • Scathing Obituary Written for Mother

    A “scathing obituary” was submitted on Tuesday to the Reno Gazette-Journal. The obituary was written by Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick’s oldest children, and has gone viral, shocking everyone who reads it.

    The obituary begins by saying: “Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick born Jan 4, 1935 died alone on Aug. 30, 2013. She is survived by her 6 of 8 children whom she spent her lifetime torturing in every way possible. While she neglected and abused her small children, she refused to allow anyone else to care or show compassion towards them. When they became adults she stalked and tortured anyone they dared to love. Everyone she met, adult or child was tortured by her cruelty and exposure to violence, criminal activity, vulgarity, and hatred of the gentle or kind human spirit.”

    The obituary continues with her children saying that they are “celebrating her passing”. “On behalf of her children whom she so abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the after-life reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty, and shame that she delivered on her children. Her surviving children will now live the rest of their lives with the peace of knowing their nightmare finally has some form of closure.”

    Reddick’s children close the obituary by saying: “Most of us have found peace in helping those who have been exposed to child abuse and hope this message of her final passing can revive our message that abusing children is unforgiveable, shameless, and should not be tolerated in a “humane society.” Our greatest wish now, is to stimulate a national movement that mandates a purposeful and dedicated war against child abuse in the United States of America.”

    The Reddick children said that they wanted to write the obituary to bring awareness to the severity of child abuse. Patrick Reddick, the second oldest child said during a phone interview: “People may see this as something we did to shame our mother. But this is to bring shame to the issue of child abuse. I want every single person to realize this could be your obituary.” “The things she did to us were horrible,“ Katherine Reddick said. “But it’s still happening to kids every day.”

    John F. Maher, the Gazette-Journal’s publisher made a statement in response to the publishing of the obituary.

    The obituary you reference was a paid placement that was submitted via our self-service, online portal. It appeared in today’s Reno Gazette-Journal and also online. From the text of the obituary, it is clear that the date of death is inaccurate. The Washoe County Public Guardian’s office has confirmed that Marianne Theresa Johnson did, indeed, recently pass away. We’ve removed the online listing of this obituary as we continue our review of the circumstances surrounding its placement. Once we’ve completed our review, we’ll determine what, if any, further actions are required.

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  • The Poorest Rich Kids In The World

    The Poorest Rich Kids In The World

    The twins, Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15, have had a horrible childhood growing up abused and neglected. However, when they turn 21 they could be receive an inheritance of $60 million.

    The story of the twins is told by Danielle Levitt in an article for “Rolling Stone” magazine. The twins are the great-niece and nephew of the celebrity tobacco heiress Doris Duke. The twins father, Walker Inman, received a portion of Doris’ $1.3 billion fortune in 1993.

    The abuse that these twins had to endure is something that no one, especially a child, should ever have to experience. They claim that they were bolt-locked into bedrooms, strewn with feces, and abused both physically and mentally by their father. They say that the abuse occurred from the time they were two years old until the death of their father in 2010 from a heroin overdose. “I never asked to be born into any of this. Sometimes I wish I was never born,” 15-year-old Georgia Inman tells “Rolling Stone” magazine during an interview.

    Plantation caretaker, Vick “Butch” Deer wrote in an affidavit saying that, “Walker made them stay down in the basement all the time. The basement was covered in feces, and it was smeared all over, and it smelled terrible. It was so bad that I wouldn’t leave a dog in that condition.” According to a former nanny, “There was food strewn across the floor and a foul smell from where the kids had been relieving themselves in a corner.”

    Where was the mother when this abuse was happening? Their mother, Daisha, was forced out of their lives in 2000 after their father allegedly kidnapped them when they were 17-month-old and the proceeded to hire lawyers to prove that Daisha was incompetent and mentally unstable. Walker told the twins that their mother was an alcoholic and that she gave them fetal alcohol syndrome and caused them to be “retarded.”

    Georgia recalls one of her first memories of abuse: “They. Stuck my brother and I. In hot boiling water in our bath. It felt like our skin was melting away”. Even though nannies and tutors witnessed the shocking abuse, no one ever contacted police or intervened in any way.

    Although many nannies and tutors recognized that there was something wrong with the children, they never intervened. Family Support Services visited the house several times, but each time their father was tipped off to hide anything suspicious. Their mother now has custody, however the children are still struggling to cope with the abuse. They spent three months in a mental hospital and both have contemplated suicide and have suffered from anorexia.

    You can read more about the Inman’s story in the new issue of “Rolling Stone” magazine.