The foster care parent system is obviously flawed. I can't wait until cps cleans up their act and starts protecting these foster kids.
ROY — A husband and wife who have been licensed to provide foster care in Utah since 2013 have been arrested for investigation of abusing their sons.
Matthew Earl Waldmiller, 40, and his wife, 41-year-old Diane Seifert Waldmiller, were each booked into the Weber County Jail for investigation of two counts of intentionally inflicting serious physical injury on a child, according to jail records.
The couple came to the attention of police Thursday when the Utah Division of Child and Family Services contacted detectives about a neglect complaint the agency had received on March 17, Roy Police Sgt. Matt Gwynn said.
"We began our investigation immediately," Gwynn said.
Investigators who went to the Waldmillers' Roy home reported that the couple's three sons — ages 7 to 11 — had been locked in a bedroom for 10 to 13 hours at a time, Gwynn said. There were three twin mattresses on the floor in the room without any bedding, and the light fixture in the room did not have a bulb, investigators said.
"The only exterior window in the bedroom was painted black and screwed shut," Gwynn said.
Detectives developed information that the window was screwed shut after the boys "escaped from the room to go dumpster diving at a nearby school for food," the sergeant said.
"As punishment for that (the Waldmillers) made the boys eat white rice that had been heavily seasoned with salt and cayenne pepper," Gwynn said.
Two of the boys had marks on their wrists that indicated they had been bound with plastic zip ties, the sergeant said. The children appeared to be underweight, and there was also evidence their eyes and mouths had been covered with duct tape at some point, Gwynn said.
"This was not reckless. It was not negligent," he said. "This was intentional."
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[–] GunzRazorsKniiiivez ago
Wtf yo, how could anyone do that?? This shit is beyond fckd up and so deep and connected its scary. I literally just saw a video of CPS taking a boy away and he kept screaming for his mom. More people need to see this shit.