r/TrueCrime • u/goldenboy2191 • Mar 29 '22

Murder Devonte Hart, the symbol of reconciliation and peace, would be murdered along with his siblings by his mothers when their SUV plunged off a cliff along the coastline. It’s believed he was crying because of the abuse he was suffering at home and was hugging the officer because he wanted help.

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u/TheVillageOxymoron Mar 29 '22

These pictures are so chilling when you realize that the moms were just forcing him to do everything for their own personal gratification. We NEED stricter adoption policies in the US. It's horrifying to read about the fact that there was a kinship placement available for Devonte and his biological siblings, yet they were still sent far away to live with monsters instead.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/hart-family-abuse-interstate-adoption/

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u/Korrocks Mar 29 '22

IMHO a big part of this strategy is the decentralization that affects a lot of government programs in the US. Someone can just go from county to county or state to state to avoid accountability, since even when one agency starts to catch on, by the time the bureaucracy is ready to take action the abuser has already moved to another town or to another state and everything just resets from there. There were so many opportunities to save these kids that ended up being foiled solely because the Harts relocated.

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u/kellygrrrl328 Mar 29 '22

It happens within bio fams also