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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Children’s author and husband admit to abusing their adopted children: Malnourished kids were spanked until they bled

Jennifer Wolfthal, left and Joseph Wolfthal, right, pleaded guilty to charges that they abused their adopted children at their home in Florida - (Seminole County Sheriff’s Office)

A Florida couple — including a woman who authored children's books — has pleaded guilty to abusing their adopted children inclduing spanking them until they bled and making them sleep on wet beds.

Jennifer and Joseph Wolfthal pleaded guilty to aggravated child abuse and neglect of a child with great bodily harm on January 13. The couple was set to go to trial on Monday, but they reached a plea agreement with prosecutors just before the trial began, according to WESH.

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