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A couple adopted a brother and a sister from Ghana, then starved them and treated them worse than their other children. Kenny Fry, 42, and his wife Kelly, 40, have been neglected to the point of being neglected to the point of being malnourished.
The 10-year-old girl and the 11-year-old boy had been adopted years earlier from Ghana and had flown to live with the Frys at their home in Osceola, Iowa.
A court heard that the children, then eight and nine years old, told social workers how they had been forced to spend the whole day in the room after being rescued in early 2018.
The children were rescued after a neighbor saw them locked in front of the Fry residence in cold weather of 15F (-9C).
She told KCCI, "They were knocking on the door. It looked like they were screaming, "Let me in." "I can not say exactly what they said, but I could hear screams. "I just thought, 'Something's wrong' knowing that it was so cold outside and those poor kids were locked out.
After being cared for, the children told social workers that if they left their room, an alarm would sound. The Frys then forced them to perform squat and push exercises as punishment.
The doctors discovered that the girl had a distended abdomen compatible with malnutrition, while her brother was too small for her age.
The children were forced to live in a single bare room furnished with a small plastic rug, blanket and bucket, to use as a toilet. They also explained to social workers how they had been fed oatmeal for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the Des Moines registry reported.
The other five children of the Frys family were cared for properly, were able to live comfortably and feed in a variety of ways. Kenny and Kelly Fry admitted two counts of endangering children after signing a plea agreement that had resulted in the abandonment of more serious charges.
They were sentenced to two years probation, 100 hours of community service and a $ 12,500 fine.
The Frys tried to pretend that their child abuse punished them for their misplaced behavior.
After removing the youth from their care, the social workers reported that they behaved well and that nothing resembled what their adoptive parents claimed.
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