Foster parents sentenced to maximum prison terms for child's torture

 A couple whose adopted 7-year-old daughter starved in their filthy basement was sentenced to prison Thursday after the father admitted: "I became the father from hell." The judge repeatedly ordered Christopher Allen Tucker and his wife, Rebecca, to look at photographs of a bruised and emaciated Brittany. The girl weighed 31 pounds when she was rescued in November after a neighbor alerted authorities. "This is the most tortuous, slow and systematic...

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