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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
News Crazy lady of the month: Mercedes Farquharson
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:05 PM
What is it with people enslaving children these days? It seems a story like this breaks every few months. Guess it's time to face the facts: We're surrounded by loony toons ... and this one thinks she's a god. Sheesh. Loony.Toons.
According to the indictment, Farquharson persuaded the mother of two of the children to let them live with her by claiming to be a god. She legally adopted the third child. All three of the children are British nationals.The children were 11, 7 and 2 years old when they started living with Farquharson, the indictment says. Starting in 1992 they lived in Marbella, Spain, until Farquharson moved them to a house on Hampton Downs Road in Monroe in 2001. They lived there until 2005.
Farquharson allegedly convinced the children she was a god.
The indictment claims she forced them to work from before dawn until after midnight cooking, cleaning, weeding gardens and tending to a flock of about 100 chickens.
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