PALMDALE – A Palmdale woman who pleaded no contest to torturing her two adopted children was sentenced Wednesday to seven years to life in state prison.
Ingrid Brewer, 53, pleaded no contest Dec. 15 to a pair of torture counts involving the girl and boy, who were 7 and 8 years old, respectively, at the time of the abuse.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies found the children hiding under a blanket near a parked vehicle on a street near their home after Brewer reported them missing Jan. 15, 2013.
“Neither child had any type of winter clothing on, despite temperatures in the mid-20s,” sheriff’s Deputy Mark Pope said at the time. The children told deputies that they had run away because they were tired of being tied up and beaten, Pope said.
Investigators said the two victims, who were covered in scars and blisters, were kept separated and sometimes bound with zip-ties in locked bedrooms.The children communicated through walls while Brewer went to work as a nurse’s assistant at UCLA Medical Center, according to Deputy District Attorney Theodore Swanson.
Brewer also deprived the children of food and access to the bathroom, forcing them to use wastebaskets in their rooms to relieve themselves, according to testimony at a preliminary court hearing.
Both children had more than 100 injuries throughout their bodies, including injuries that were consistent with being hit with electrical cords, coat hangers, pipes, ropes and belts, according to testimony from Mary Reina, a registered nurse at Antelope Valley Hospital. (Read more here.)
“It’s a sad case and these poor children suffered serious injuries that children their age should never have to be exposed to,” said Swanson, who noted that the children are now with a foster parent and are “doing well.”
Brewer has been jailed in lieu of $2 million bail since her Jan. 16, 2013, arrest.
[City News Service contributed to this report.]
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Maria Paesano says
Seven years? Are you kidding me? That disgusting piece of crap should never see the light of day EVER for hurting innocent children . I mean over 100 injuries???? This is typical of our wonderful ” criminal justice” system since criminals are now allowed and even encouraged to committ crimes especially violent ones. Sickening
Danelda Robbins says
Sadly this happens far too often after a child has been adopted and the juvenile dependency case is closed meaning no follow up by social workers and even if abuse reports are made Dcfs usually assumes it is false allegations made by the children’s natural parents. combine that with Dcfs trying to keep any poor judgements to a minimum from their department even at the expense of a child’s safety and you get an idea of how messed up our child protection system is. the only rare thing in this case was that the children are still alive. quite often the adoptive parents murder the child hide the body or bodies and continue to collect adoption assistance checks in an amour ranging between $1500-$3000 per child per month. with the natural family usually no longer permitted to know where the children are and Dcfs no longer involved they often easily get away with murder and even more tragic is many of these children were taken from loving non abusive homes due to false allegation. the children may be in another home but its a Foster home so that certainly does not mean they are safe. more children are abused in Foster care than with their original homes. sick system protecting children to death n all
so mad!! says
How sad… but where were the social worker’s ?
Lori says
Where did the children end up? Are they being cared for and have a counselor?
Allison says
Praying for these children and I hope she spends more than 7 years in prison for what she did.
Mike C says
If anyone out there knows women in the two women’s prisons in California they need to start writing to the girls they know in there and let them know this snatch is on her way up to prison so they can deal out a little prison justice on her. Kill the [removed].
Michelle Egberts says
@Mike C… after having experienced the prison environment first hand, the women do not tolerate any type of crimes against children. Believe me, those women already know she’s on her way as inmates communicate between the jails and prisons, especially those on the bus she’ll be riding on.
Although I don’t believe in violence, I personally saw a baby killer get stomped to death while incarcerated and it still haunts me to this day. This woman will probably put herself in Protective Custody which she will be housed with death row inmates and in a cell 23 hours a day.
As for her 7 yrs to Life, she will be eligible for the parole board (BPT) in 7 years, but I can guarantee you that they will deny her parole many many times as she will never be remorseful for what she did to those children as it was “intentional.” She’ll be doing “hard time” for sure!
I wish the best for the children in their recovery from this nightmare and that they are with a loving family.
Mocha30 says
I hate people like this!!! What a waste of living flesh! She should be locked under the jail, with no food or water, tied with a zip lock and left to rot! Smh! Some people should NEVER have physical contact with children! I believe that she should have gotten longer than a minimum of 7 years! She should have gotten 20 years for each child. This judicial system we are living under is horrible!!!!
Mrs wonder says
This is LUDACRIS..a child molester can remain on bail..out in the public to possibly molest another child…my nephew went here how scary..The AV court house kills me..
lynette says
She should get life with no possibility of parole. What a piece of crap she is!!
April says
7 years to life means she MUST do a minimum of 7 years before she is eligible for parole, but the parole board can deny her parole til the day she dies. There’s absolutely no maximum limit to how long they can keep her locked up.
And I wonder how UMC Medical Center feels about all of this negative publicity. Bow your heads in shame boys and girls.
Praying that the children stay well and are now monitored more carefully with their new foster home. Thank you Lord for intervening before it was too late!
PLW says
Let me at this woman and we’ll see how SHE likes being beaten with cords, hangers, pipes, belts, etc… They’ll be nothing left of her sorry A$$. God this just makes me sick as she’ll be out before her 7 yrs are up. Our prisons are full and they’ll release her early. I hope she gets what she deserves in prison!! A real POS!!
PLW says
With a good beating she’ll come out better looking than her photo!!
VXSGUY says
She shouldn’t have had the option of No Contest. Should had went to Jury of her peers…
ANON says
Douche Bag