{"id":29495,"date":"2013-01-23T17:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T01:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=29495"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:32:03","slug":"kids-allegedly-tortured-in-palmdale-home-mother-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/01\/23\/kids-allegedly-tortured-in-palmdale-home-mother-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids allegedly tortured in Palmdale home, mother charged"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ingrid<\/a>
Ingrid Brewer, 50, is accused of tying up and beating her two adopted children \u2013 an 8-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl \u2013 in this west Palmdale home in the 39000 Block of Clear View Court.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PALMDALE \u2013 A 50-year-old Palmdale woman is facing eight felony counts, after her two adopted children told detectives they were deprived of food, tied up and beaten with electrical cords and a hammer, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Ingrid Brewer<\/strong> is charged with two counts of torture, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of felony battery and two counts of cruelty to a child, according to Sgt. Brian Hudson of the Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s Special Victims Bureau.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven our most veteran child abuse detectives were appalled at what we came across in this incident,\u201d Hudson said Wednesday. \u201cThese two kids are heroes because they showed a heck of a lot of courage to take it upon themselves to get out of a bad situation on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

The alleged torture came to light last week, when Brewer reported her 8-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl missing from their west Palmdale home, Hudson said.<\/p>\n

Brewer reported the children missing around 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, and the Palmdale Station launched a \u201ccritical missing operation\u201d due to the children\u2019s ages, Hudson said.<\/p>\n

About three hours later, deputies found the two children a few blocks away from their home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were huddled under a blanket near a parked car and it was quite cold that morning,\u201d Hudson said, adding that neither child had any type of winter clothing on, despite temperatures in the mid-20s.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we found the children, we discovered that they ran away to escape the environment they had been placed in by their mother,\u201d Hudson continued.<\/p>\n

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Brewer told detectives her two adopted children were punished because they were “stealing food,” authorities said.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The children told detectives that, on numerous occasions, Brewer would tie their hands behind their backs and beat them as punishment, Hudson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose children disclosed being hit with electrical cords and a hammer at one point over the course of the last several months,\u201d Hudson said, adding that both children had numerous marks and bruises on them when found.<\/p>\n

\u201cInjuries on their bodies that were consistent with the abuse that they had disclosed, including marks that indicated that their wrists had been restrained with a zip-tie type restraint,\u201d Hudson said.<\/p>\n

The children also reported being locked in their bedrooms for up to 14 hours at a time, while Brewer went to work each day as a certified nursing assistant in Los Angeles, Hudson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doors were padlocked from the outside so they could not come out of the rooms,\u201d Hudson said. \u201cThe children were locked in separate rooms and were forced to use their trash cans as toilets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after the children were found, detectives arrested Brewer at her home in the 39000 Block of Clear View Court in Palmdale.<\/p>\n

Neighbors said Wednesday that Brewer had been living at the address since about March of 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe never really spoke to anyone and she kept to herself,\u201d Cynthia Otero said, adding that she didn\u2019t even realize Brewer had kids until recently.<\/p>\n

Otero said she wished the two youngsters had given her some type of clue to alert her of their predicament, and she expressed remorse that the abuse was happening just across the street from her home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spoke to all of the neighbors and none of them reported ever seeing any type of suspicious activity. The sheriff\u2019s department had no previous calls for service at the location,\u201d Hudson said.<\/p>\n

Brewer told detectives her adopted children were punished because they were \u201cstealing food,\u201d Hudson said, but declined to elaborate further.<\/p>\n

Hudson said the children were homeschooled and had been adopted out of the foster care system about a year ago. The youngsters said the torture began in October of last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince Halloween of 2012, that\u2019s when they first remembered being locked in their rooms and not being allowed to come out while their mom was at work,\u201d Hudson said.<\/p>\n

The children have been in protective custody since they were found, Hudson said. Brewer pleaded not guilty to eight felony counts on Friday, Jan. 18, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney\u2019s Office. She remains jailed on $2 million bail and is due back in court on Thursday, Jan. 31, for a scheduled preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n

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