Sentenced: Adoptive Monsters Starved Fragile 15YO To Death

[Sugar Cookie]

Arrest warrants have been issued for the adoptive parents in the case of a young boy in Vancouver who starved to death. Karreon Franks, 15, was just 70 pounds when he died in November. Warrants were issued for Karreon’s adoptive parents, Jesse Franks and Felicia-Adams Franks. The warrants are for domestic violence charges including homicide by abuse and second-degree murder.

Those warrants say that the two caused the death of Karreon on November 27, 2020. According to court documents obtained in April, teachers, family members and child welfare workers had made observations and reports of Karreon’s abuse.

They described the boy as being a “walking skeleton” and that he was falling down because of malnourishment. Teachers had reported that Karreon’s brother told teachers that they were denied food as punishment. Welfare workers also reported that they were told they were physically abused six days before Karreon’s death. Family members said that the boy was severely autistic, mostly non-verbal and partially blind.

Warrants show the state is seeking a sentence above the standard sentencing range because of the seriousness of the charges. The warrants also show that the state is seeking to extradite the adoptive parents anywhere they are in the country. They also state that the couple will be denied bail when they appear in court.

Arrest warrants issued for adoptive parents in starvation death of 15-year-old child - KVIA

Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — Arrest warrants have been issued for the adoptive parents in the case of a young boy in Vancouver who starved to death. Karreon Franks, 15, was just 70 pounds when he died in November. Warrants were issued for Karreon’s...

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[Freyja]

I bet those "parents" probably look like they haven't missed a single meal. And how did so many people like the teachers notice, but nobody did a goddamn thing to help these kids who were obviously missing many meals?

 

[cubby]

Wonder if his name was a conscious choice, because when I read Karreon, I thought carrion, rotting prey for scavengers like his parents. I don't get the starving, I like to feed people, possibly too much, but I could never deny food to children, any child, for any reason, ever.

 

[Busy Bee]

What is wrong with these people! Teachers saw this, it was reported! These people need to spend the rest of their life I n prison! He starved to death, that’s just horrible!

 

[Craygor]

Check this shit out.

The emphasis are mine.

Apr 14, 2021
The adoptive mother of a 15-year-old who weighed 61 pounds when he died went to a casino just hours after his death in November 2020 and spent more than four hours gambling.

... Felicia Adams took Karreon Franks to the hospital the day after Thanksgiving. She allegedly told doctors Karreon became unresponsive when she was bathing him. He was pronounced dead 14 minutes after arriving at the hospital.

.....Felicia Adams arrived at ilani Casino approximately three hours after Karreon died to play slots.”

... Felicia Adams has spent $753,181 in total “cash buys” or “buy-ins” at the casino from April 2017 to December 9, 2020 and she has a “lifetime loss of $238,098” while she spent 1,261 hours at ilani. Jesse Franks has a “lifetime loss of $43,078” ....

.... Adams received “approximately $3000 a month to care for Karreon” from the state of California, where he used to live.

.... 6 days before he died after Adams’s other sister warned that Felicia was withholding food and Karreon was “a walking skeleton” and “falls down due to malnourishment.” The sister also said the boys have to “steal food when they can.” The CPS worker who visited the home was reportedly told by one of the boys that his parents spanked him with a paddle until it broke, after which they used an extension cord and spanked him until he bled. Court documents show the boy told the caseworker he saw his mother hit Karreon with a cane and that she would sometimes hit the teen with it when he threw up.

Documents also say he was legally blind, severely autistic and non-verbal. His teachers at Mountain View High School talked about how he would binge eat until he would vomit. One of his special ed teachers said the last time she saw Karreon before the pandemic he weighed 115 to 120 pounds. Another teacher reportedly told a Clark County detective about a day Karreon came to school starving and crying and his brother told school staff they had been punished and hadn’t been given any food over the weekend. Court documents show that when a school counselor asked Adams about it, she replied that punishment was family business.

... the autopsy done by the Clark County Medical Examiner showed abnormal bone and hair growth as well as abdominal lesions most likely caused by starvation. The ME also said Karreon had hardly any range of motion in his arms and legs, again likely because of starvation.

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Docs: Mom went to casino on day teen son starved to death

The adoptive mother of a 15-year-old who weighed 61 pounds when he died went to a casino just hours after his death in November 2020.

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[Brillig]

So as soon as he wasn't physically going to school due to the pandemic, she started starving him, imagining there would be no witnesses. What a monster.

 

[Ramona the brave]

Check this shit out.

The emphasis are mine.

Complete CPS failure. So glad they decided to make the details public so someone can be held accountable.

 

[Satanica]

I'm afraid to imagine how many foster parents are spending those checks on other things like this bitch was. Just horrific.

 

[Busy Bee]

They should have to reimburse the state for those funds! Then spend the remainder of their wasted lives on a chain gang. Being fed the most minimal of meals these people knew better and should be held to a higher standard!

 

[Sejanus]

Wanted the money but not the boy.
Partially blind and starve them.
Seems only fair.

 

[Freyja]

Wonder if his name was a conscious choice, because when I read Karreon, I thought carrion, rotting prey for scavengers like his parents. I don't get the starving, I like to feed people, possibly too much, but I could never deny food to children, any child, for any reason, ever.

You ain't kidding, I love to cook for and feed people too! It would be boring just to cook for yourself. I just canned 6 jars of strawberry cinnamon and rhubarb jam and already got requests for a jar. I also plan to do some jars of blueberry marmalade. Anyone who comes to my house sure as hell ain't leaving hungry.

 

[cubby]

Oh I love fresh made jam! My mother used to make fig preserves with strawberry jello in it, made it taste more like strawberries, but since we had a double shit load of figs, welllll, you understand, it tasted good to me and I'm not crazy about figs. All I'd need is a whole lot of toasty toast and I'm all set. Yum yum.

 

[Freyja]

Oh I love fresh made jam! My mother used to make fig preserves with strawberry jello in it, made it taste more like strawberries, but since we had a double shit load of figs, welllll, you understand, it tasted good to me and I'm not crazy about figs. All I'd need is a whole lot of toasty toast and I'm all set. Yum yum.

How about a fresh loaf of French bread?

 

[Brillig]

... but since we had a double shit load of figs...

Fresh figs, what a delicious treat! I could eat them every day.

 

[Satanica]

We had figs in our backyard when I was a kid, and my dad always had a garden. Back then I hated working in the garden as well as having to shell peas, but, of course, now I would've appreciated it.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

With tears welling in her eyes, Judge Suzan Clark on Wednesday sentenced the adoptive mother and father of a 15-year-old boy they starved to death to 35 years and 30 years in prison, respectively.

“What happened to Karreon (Franks) is one of the saddest things I have seen in 37 years — a child with special needs in the condition he was in when he died,” Clark said at Wednesday’s sentencing.


“And the hardest part of this was I kept waiting in trial for a good reason for this.”

She said never before had she returned to her chambers after a trial and “had all of the jurors in tears because of what they had been through.” One of the alternate jurors complained of being unable to sleep.

A Clark County Superior Court jury in October convicted Felicia L. Adams, 54, and Jesse C. Franks, 58, of homicide by abuse and second-degree murder in Karreon’s death along with two counts of second-degree criminal mistreatment of his brothers, then 14 and 13 years old. (The murder conviction was vacated Wednesday to avoid double jeopardy.) Jurors also found a number of aggravating factors — abuse of trust and deliberate cruelty, among others — for each defendant.

Those aggravating factors allowed Clark to order an exceptionally long sentence for Adams, who prosecutors say appeared to be in charge of the home.

“Karreon was an extremely vulnerable child,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Laurel Smith said. “The others only survived because they were slightly less vulnerable. These are two children fighting for their survival while being forced to watch their brother’s demise, his murder.”

She called the case as cruel as they come.

At trial, prosecutors said Karreon and his brothers were accustomed to food restrictions and corporal punishment in their Vancouver home.

Karreon was severely developmentally delayed and autistic, to the point he was nearly nonverbal. He was also legally blind and used a cane to get around. He further struggled to keep food down, attorneys told the jury.

Prosecutors told the jury Karreon lost 47 percent of his body weight between July 2019 and his death on Nov. 27, 2020. His weight dropped from 115 pounds to 61 pounds. The majority of that time he was isolated at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adams, the boys’ maternal aunt, initially declined to give a statement to the court; her attorney, Jeff Sowder, said she had said everything she needed to say at trial. But she changed her mind after her husband gave a statement.

She showed no remorse and never addressed Karreon’s death.

“It’s difficult to sit here and having heard the things I’ve heard and the depiction of us as parents,” Adams said.

She said there were many inaccuracies throughout the case, and the defense didn’t get an opportunity to put on certain evidence for the court.

“I just feel like I wasn’t portrayed in the best light and that’s too bad. Now, I have to be OK with whatever happens,” she said, adding she doesn’t deserve the 40-year sentence prosecutors were seeking.

In his statement, Franks said he felt like the prosecution had made “a bit of a point.”

“I should have, as a man, I should have stood up and pretty much done the right thing,” he said.

He blamed his lack of education and job training for not taking an active role in the household. Franks said when he married Adams, he gained stability.

He also took responsibility for his role in physically punishing Karreon’s brothers, which sometimes included hitting them with a belt and other objects.

“I just feel like doing time for me spanking them, I understand that, judge. I’m just asking for some leniency here,” he said.

Karreon Franks’ adoptive parents sentenced to decades in prison for his murder

With tears welling in her eyes, Judge Suzan Clark on Wednesday sentenced the adoptive mother and father of a 15-year-old boy they starved to death to 35 years and 30 years in prison, respectively.

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[Alxprkrkrls]

No remorse or accountability…. Just astounding

 

[McDanel]

Something tells me Mr. Franks is slow on the uptake, and gets a check for it. He's just another source of passive income. She, on the other hand, is utterly inhuman. Neither one of them seems to grasp the enormity of what they have done.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Something tells me Mr. Franks is slow on the uptake, and gets a check for it. He's just another source of passive income. She, on the other hand, is utterly inhuman. Neither one of them seems to grasp the enormity of what they have done.

I think they just don't care and saw Karreon and his siblings as less than human because of their disabilities and circumstances.

She sure is ugly inside and out.