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January 23, 2025

House Of Horrors: Children’s Book Author And Husband Exposed For Child Abuse

A Florida children’s book author and her husband have been exposed for living a double life where, behind doors, they were abusing their three adopted children for years.

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A Florida children’s book author and her husband have been exposed for living a double life where, behind doors, they were abusing their three adopted children for years.

Jennifer Wolfthal, the author of A Real Friend, and her husband, Joseph Wolfthal, an engineer for Lockheed Martin, pleaded guilty on January 13 to aggravated child abuse and neglect of a child with great bodily harm. They were sentenced to more than a decade in prison after pleading guilty to the abuse.

Jennifer Wolfthal, 44, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, while her husband got 10 years behind bars, according to the plea agreement, reported The New York Post:

“This plea and sentencing agreement ensures that the Wolfthals will spend significant time in prison while it protects the already-traumatized victims from the stress of having to testify,” a spokesperson for the State Attorney’s Office in Florida’s 18th judicial circuit said.

What skom.

Image: Seminole County Sheriff’s Office
Image: Seminole County Sheriff’s Office

“The State Attorney’s office made sure law enforcement and the children’s new guardian supported this sentence before it agreed to it.”

It was in 2021 that their house of horrors was revealed after their then eight-year-old adopted daughter was brought to the hospital by Joseph with organ failure, unconscious and multiple injuries. The young girl was suffering from several conditions including pneumonia, a staph infection and liver failure. She was also malnourished, had bruises, a skin infection and open wounds.

“Due to the height and weight of [the girl], it is not likely the swollen bruise on the back of her head and the laceration on her lip and broken tooth were caused by off balance falls,” the police report read.

On New Year’s Day in 2022, Jennifer was arrested when Joseph finally took their child to the hospital.

At the time, officials took the other children from the home, too – a 9-year-old and 11-year-old – who told cops that they’d been locked in their rooms and punished in myriad ways, including being forced to write “I’m a fool” over and over, records show.

The two also displayed “symptoms of malnourishment, bruises and lack of care.”

Inside the home, the evidence of abuse was also chillingly obvious, with the doorknobs on the children’s bedrooms installed backwards, with the locks on the outside.

Wolfthal’s book is listed on Amazon but has been removed from sale with the publishers expressing their horror at news regarding one-time Clavis’ author Jennifer Wolfthal’s arrest. They said they strongly condemn child abuse, abandonment and neglect, today and always, adding that “We will do what’s within our power to cease commercialization of her book further.”

It takes a very specific sicko to hurt children to this extent.

[Source: NY Post]