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Lydia and Zariah Schatz



8-year-old Lydia and 11-year-old Zariah (or Zacharia) were adopted from Liberia along with a infant girl by Kevin P. and Elizabeth H. Schatz in 2007. Lydia had been beaten with a 15 inch tubing for hours for misspelling a word during a home schooling sessions, and died as a result. Zacharia was taken to the hospital in critical condition due to kidney failure, among other injuries. Both parents are charged with murder. They also were charged with cruelty due to bruises on their biological 10 yr old son The Schatz's had 6 biological children.

Kevin Schatz pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 22-to-life. Elizabeth Schatz pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 13 years.
Date: 2010-02-06
Placement type: Adoption
Type of abuse: Non-lethal physical abuse, Lethal physical abuse
Abuser: Adoptive father, Adoptive mother, Undetermined
Home schooling: yes
Fundamentalist faith: yes

Homestudy

Placement

Post placement

Location

Paradise, California
United States
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"Paradise"

Submitted by Kerry on Sun, 2010-02-07 22:37.

Ahhh, breathe-in the bitter irony --- paradise, through the eyes of a dead adoptee.

Oh, but lets ban the gays from adopting.

Submitted by Marion_Cullen on Mon, 2010-02-08 00:53.

That's bad for the children. Oh well, at least there's no danger of that in Paradise, CA, I suppose.

Paradise, CA = homeschooling bigot redstate CA. Why am I not surprised children get abused and murdered by their parents there.

For The Children

Submitted by Kitty on Sat, 2010-03-27 08:41.

I tried to upload the video below but could not get it go! Here is a news peace done by Chico, CA KNVN 24 News concerning the Schatz case. There is one discrepancy, Lydia Schatz was never revived, perhaps they confused resuscitative attempts or who knows. Anyway.... Those of us who are familiar with Michael Pearls are working to get one of the major news services to do a expose on this. Chris Hansen, bless his pea pickin heart, so far has been the only one to bother to even seem interested. CBS Early Show was going to interview Michael Pearl and give him a chance to "respond to his critics, but not also interview his 'critics' because Michael Pearls would not agree to that!!!!! Thanks to outcry, thank God CBS cancelled the interview at the last minute.

http://www.knvn.com/news/default.aspx

Which video?

Submitted by Niels on Sat, 2010-03-27 13:31.

The link you added leads to the default news page of KNVN, which specific video did you mean. I am probably able to upload it.

If you wait a few moments

Submitted by Kitty on Mon, 2010-03-29 13:19.

If you wait a few moments the video will start on it's own. It is kinda slow starting up

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