Odalis Sharp, Kansas Mom Whose Kids Sang at Oregon Standoff, Loses Custody
This woman uses her children as props for her wingnut theater.
Odalis Sharp’s children had detailed to the Shawnee County District Court judge how their mother had beaten them, yelled at them and called them names. They talked about how their siblings would scream at the pain and how their mother would say she was trying to “beat the fire” out of them. She’d make them put pumps of hand soap in their mouths to wash it out. She’d cut them off from the outside world, the kids said.
Sharp, of Auburn, Kan., told the judge she wasn’t a bad mother. She wasn’t a monster. She loved her kids.
But by Wednesday afternoon, Judge Steven Ebberts had heard enough. There was a line between punishment and abuse, Ebberts said, and the mother had repeatedly crossed it.
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