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    An Examination of Child Protection in Texas
    An Examination of Child Protection in Texas
    An Examination of Child Protection in Texas
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    An Examination of Child Protection in Texas

    By John Paul Scott

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    This book explores the history of child abuse in America. It also gives the reader insight into what occurs in a child protection agency.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9780989130103
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      THE STORY OF DEBRA LUPTAK (PAULI)

      If just hearing the name Debra Luptak (Pauli) does not trigger an emotion in you, then you truly do not know what child abuse is. Child abuse can be verbal, physical, emotional, sexual, and neglectful, or a combination of the acts. Debra Luptak and her siblings had to endure every form of child abuse there is.

      On July 28, 2010, Adrienne Papp, an esteemed business woman and well established publicist, shared Debra’s story to the world, which covered her from birth to where she is now. The events that follow are based on the interview as told to Adrienne Papp: In 1962, Debra was born to a mother who was a paranoid schizophrenic. Her mother only wanted male children and when Debra was born, she called her the Devil’s Daughter. Debra’s mother was sexually abused as a child and began to abuse her daughter at birth. Debra was placed in a crib in a closet in the back of the home. Her mother thought Debra was going to ruin her marriage and would later end up having sex with her husband.

      At three weeks of age, a mosquito bit Debra while she was lying in her crib in the closet. She contracted encephalitis, had a raging fever, began having convulsions, and slipped into a coma. After arriving at the hospital, her spine was drained, and she stayed several weeks there.

      At six weeks of age, she was taken back to the hospital because her mother tried to kill her by suffocating her until she was at the point of dying. During this incident, Debra had stopped breathing and had turned blue. Her mother stated, Debra tried to kill herself.

      Another female child was born into the family and was abused as well, but Debra was always disciplined more harshly. The mother had two boys in the home, but they were not treated in the same manner as the females. The girls were kept in separate rooms and locked in closets as infants and toddlers, slept on a mattress in the basement, they were fed very little food that had to be eaten off the basement staircase, and they wore urine and feces soaked diapers for days because they were never potty trained. The girls had severe rashes and sores on their private areas.

      Debra began to scratch her sores and her mother was convinced that she was touching herself sexually and assumed she was gay. Her mother made homemade straightjackets for her and she wore them every day, all-day. Her legs were placed over each other and she was restrained in such a manner that she could not really move. She learned to hobble and walk with the straight-jacket on. She was forced to sit on a potty chair for hours with the straight-jacket on. Her mother forced her to urinate by forcing a syringe up her tiny vagina. Debra had trained herself for years to hold her urine and bowel movements because when she made a mess on herself, her mother would smear feces on her face and dry it with a fan. Due to the constant wearing of the straight-jacket, Debra’s legs grew to be deformed. It took six months of physical therapy in a hospital to reduce the effect of the deformation.

      During the winter, while Debra and her sister Danielle were sleeping in the basement, her mother would make them stand over a drain and would hose them down with cold water.

      The father of the children was living in the household at the time, but did nothing to stop the abuse. At times, he would voice his concerns, but that led to their mother fighting with him and increasing the abuse she subjected the girls to.

      On a daily basis the abuse continued. By the age of two, Debra was subjected to cigarette burns and force fed Valium to keep her sedated and immobile. After a couple of days of taking Valium, Debra fell into a coma and lost her sensory perceptions. Her father found her on the floor in the closet lying in feces and urine. She was once again taken to the hospital where she stayed for several weeks. Social services was notified, and the

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