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with their necks broken.

Let's talk about what happened

once when you were smaller,

when you... when you

found some baby birds in a... in a tree.

- What did you do to them?

- I took them out.

And what did mom say to you?

That the mother

would not come back

if somebody touches her babies.

Are the baby birds kind of small?

Can you describe them for me?

Well, they don't have

their eyes open

but they can hear... hear me

and they would go up.

Are they kinda helpless,

little baby birds?

- Can they fly?

- No.

Can they run away?

- Yes. - They can? Are they easy

to catch or hard to catch?

- Hard.

- Yeah, well it's hard to remember.

- With the baby birds, what did you do?

- Took them out of the tree.

- And what did you do?

- Played around too rough.

I saw one at the end,

I picked it up,

and I thought it was dead

and I came to say

"Mommy, is this bird dead?"

and she said...

she called daddy

and said "Tim", and...

and daddy came and...

I think I remember

that they said yes.

And so... so did

the little baby birds die?

I don't know.

- You don't remember?

- I just remember, the last thing

I remember that mommy and daddy said

the last bird we got was dead.

Do you know what mom said to me?

She said that all of them were dead.

Did you squeeze 'em? Did baby

Beth squeeze them?

You're doing a good job, honey, go

ahead and tell me what happened.

- I squeezed them.

- And what happened?

They died.

And this kind of aggression in our animals

and even at her brother Jonathan

was beginning to grow

to such an excess

that our life was

miserable at home;

we had, John would cry

in the mornings

and said his stomach hurt,

we, for the longest time, we thought

maybe this child has... has some

problem with his intestinal area

or maybe has allergies and so we'd

try to get all of that checked out.

Come to find out Beth was coming out

of her room and hitting him in the stomach.

And so as a last resort, just to

protect him, we had to tie her door shut.

So I guess for, what...

the last three or four months now,

we've had to tie her in at night,

sort of barricade her.

The repercussions of

Beth's tragic childhood

led to uncontrollable rage,

despite the love and nurturing

of her adoptive parents,

she took this rage out on herself,

on her brother and on them.

Her acts of violence became

more and more cruel and frightening.

Well, I noticed several like pair of knives

in the kitchen missing,

and my first thought was Beth

and I felt a little guilty

about it at first,

but... I really didn't

even mention it to her

and it'd been gone several weeks.

She was sitting at the table, drawing

and mentioned to me,

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