Children’s author and husband admit to abusing their adopted children: Malnourished kids were spanked until they bled One of the children was diagnosed with pneumonia during a hospital visit and was found with bruises and open wounds.
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.
According to police interviews with the children, their parents sometimes doused their beds with cold water and forced them to sleep in them overnight.
Jennifer Wolfthal — the author of a children’s book titled A Real Friend — is set to be sentenced to 12 years in prison, and her husband faces a 10-year sentence, according to the plea deal.
Jennifer made bail, but was arrested later in January on charges of false imprisonment of a child under the age of 13, according to PEOPLE.
