http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/joyful-reunion-birth-parents-leads-incest-murder-54645125
Holy shit when this popped up on my feed. Much more in the link. Can't even begin to imagine how in the hell this happened and how almost no one acted, including her adoptive parents...
What started out as a joyful reunion of a young woman with her birth parents soon turned sour, then shocking, and finally deadly.
A young woman named Katie married her birth father, had a baby with him and, after she decided to leave him, lost her life to him along with that of their child and her adoptive father. All three were laid to rest this weekend in upstate New York.
"We're all still in shock," said Shirley Mann, a neighbor of Katie's adoptive parents in Dover. "It's crazy. I don't know what else to say. It's horrible."
Alyssa Pladl finally moved out in November 2016, and she shared custody of the two children with Steven Pladl.
In May 2017, she learned from her 11-year-old daughter's journal of the incestuous relationship and Katie's pregnancy. Her daughter wrote that she and her sister were told by Steven Pladl to refer to Katie as their stepmother.
"I started to become hysterical, and I called him," she said. "I said, 'Is Katie pregnant with your baby?' He just said, 'I thought you knew. We're in love.'
"I started screaming," she said. "I was just cursing him out: 'How could you? You're sick. She's a child.'"
Then she called the police.
Holy shit when this popped up on my feed. Much more in the link. Can't even begin to imagine how in the hell this happened and how almost no one acted, including her adoptive parents...
Katie's adoptive parents posed for a photo on the wedding day along with Steven, Katie and Steven's mother. Katie wears a short black dress.
Tony and Kelly Fusco thought there was nothing they could do and had decided it was best to support Katie, Gould said.