Later she claimed she'd taken off with him because her mother was abusing the child.
She was psychologically abused by her mother for many years.
In some cases, he said, frustrated mothers have abused their children.
She said she kept the child at her home because the mother abused the daughter.
"My mother abused me, and I couldn't take it anymore," she said.
Daniel, how did you feel when your mother abused you?
Most experience withdrawal from the various drugs their mothers abused, which almost always include crack.
Fifteen mothers were abusing drugs or alcohol when their child was killed.
His mother may have been abusing and starving those children, but he was a child in that house, too.
Dorna Keller was one of these, abused by her mother.