Steven Bennett
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public
2001 Mar 7
placement
post placement
Walter Skogland
4 year old boy adopted by special education teacher and former state social worker Wanda Bennett, who beat the boy regularly with shoes and tied him up with old socks to keep him from eating. The boy weighed 35 pounds when police removed him from the home. At All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, doctors reported finding six recent fractures and cigarette burns on his back. Wanda Bennett had 4 adopted children.
Documents
| Title | Publication date |
|---|---|
| Teacher accused of abuse gets jail | 2002 May 14 |
| Many missed signs of boy's abuse | 2001 Jul 10 |
| 'She covered it up so well' | 2001 Jun 3 |
| Teacher facing abuse charges is fired | 2001 May 25 |
| Teacher is charged with abuse, neglect | 2001 Mar 30 |
| Brother says teacher is a 'loving mother' | 2001 Mar 10 |
| Police say teacher hit, starved son | 2001 Mar 9 |