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At one point, Raylaine Knope forced D.P. to dump an urn of her mother's ashes into a bowl of milk and eat them with a spoon, prosecutors said. The family watched and laughed as she then vomited onto the table.
If D.P. did not complete the work, members of the family would physically attack her: Terry Knope choked and kicked her while Raylaine Knope threw canned goods at her, according to the documents.
During one attack, Bridget Lambert hit D.P. on the head with a wood board, cutting her so deep that her blood dripped on her clothes and the floor, according to the documents. Family members refused to take her to a doctor because they were afraid someone would find out they were abusing her, so a family member used glue to close the wound.
Bridget Lambert once held D.P.'s arm while Terry Knope burned her hand with a cigarette lighter as punishment for "talking back" to Raylaine Knope. Terry Knope shot D.P. with a pellet gun at close range on another occasion because of her disability, telling her she was a "retard" who "deserved to die," according to the documents. In a third instance he hit D.P.'s hand with a hammer, fracturing multiple bones.
At other times, prosecutors said, family members held her head underwater in a bath tub, threatened to shoot her if she tried to escape, and dumped buckets of urine and feces on her.
They also forced her to eat dog feces on bread, simulate sex acts with a jalapeno pepper and remove her clothing to make sexual advances towards men, prosecutors said in the documents. Some of the family members forced D.P. to ingest methamphetamine and prescription painkillers, then threatened to turn her in to police for using them if she didn't obey them.
At one point, Raylaine Knope forced D.P. to dump an urn of her mother's ashes into a bowl of milk and eat them with a spoon, prosecutors said. The family watched and laughed as she then vomited onto the table.
If D.P. did not complete the work, members of the family would physically attack her: Terry Knope choked and kicked her while Raylaine Knope threw canned goods at her, according to the documents.
During one attack, Bridget Lambert hit D.P. on the head with a wood board, cutting her so deep that her blood dripped on her clothes and the floor, according to the documents. Family members refused to take her to a doctor because they were afraid someone would find out they were abusing her, so a family member used glue to close the wound.
Bridget Lambert once held D.P.'s arm while Terry Knope burned her hand with a cigarette lighter as punishment for "talking back" to Raylaine Knope. Terry Knope shot D.P. with a pellet gun at close range on another occasion because of her disability, telling her she was a "retard" who "deserved to die," according to the documents. In a third instance he hit D.P.'s hand with a hammer, fracturing multiple bones.
At other times, prosecutors said, family members held her head underwater in a bath tub, threatened to shoot her if she tried to escape, and dumped buckets of urine and feces on her.
They also forced her to eat dog feces on bread, simulate sex acts with a jalapeno pepper and remove her clothing to make sexual advances towards men, prosecutors said in the documents. Some of the family members forced D.P. to ingest methamphetamine and prescription painkillers, then threatened to turn her in to police for using them if she didn't obey them.
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