Children adopted by Karey Hedlund

Children adopted by Karey Hedlund were physically abuse by their adoptive mother. The children were struck with a wood backscratcher, the edge of a wood paddle and the handle of a flyswatter and were locked out of the residence during the day, sometimes without access to food or water. The children were being pushed outside in underwear as it was starting to snow. Hedlund was further accused of biting a victim's fingers until they bled as punishment for biting fingernails; withholding meals when the children did not obey orders; slapping the victims and pulling their hair; and chasing victims with a four-wheeler. Hedlund was accused of locking one victim in a pet cage for 2.5 days as a punishment. The victim was allegedly not let out of the cage to use the toilet and Hedlund was accused of pouring bleach into the cage to clean it while the victim was still inside.