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After Courtney and Nick Miller adopted their son, Eli, they found out that he had a little brother. But what they didn’t realize was that he lived less than an hour away from them. And when they finally discovered the truth, the moms arranged for the boys to meet for the very first time.

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When Miller and her husband decided to start a family, they struggle to conceive naturally. And Miller now admits that as she watched her pales become mothers, she longed to have a baby of her own.

So when it didn’t happen for her, she started to pray and became increasingly frustrated. In a message to her younger self that she shared on Facebook in November 2018, Miller remembered how she’d felt back then. You’re going to know what it feels like to be angry with God and sad, Miller wrote.

Truly, deeply sad when you realize the babies are not coming. Nevertheless, Miller turned to her faith to guide her through that difficult time. And then one night, inspiration came to the couple from a surprising place. Miller and her husband were watching the movie Martian Child, in which John Qzak. The character adopts a little boy who believes that he comes from Mars.

The story hit us like ice-cold water to the face, Miller revealed in October 2018 on Facebook. We both knew we wanted to adopt at some point in life, but we hadn’t tried anything exceptional to have kids yet, so it wasn’t exactly the first thing on our minds.

However, she added that when they watched the film, it quickly became all they could think about. It was Miller’s husband who suggested that they go ahead with an adoption right away. So they contacted an agency and cleared out their bank account to pay the initial fee, and within just a couple of weeks, the agency had identified a pregnant woman who was planning to give her child up for adoption.

Miller and her future son’s biological mother subsequently came face to face at an Olive Garden and spent a couple of hours talking. She told me her biggest fear was that she would regret this decision for the rest of her life, Miller recalled in a blog post.

Love is what matters. I promised myself right then and there that if she chose me, I would spend every day of his life making sure she wouldn’t. A fortnight after that, Courtney and Nick Miller became parents to a little boy named Eli.

His biological mom wanted her son to have a better shot at success than she could give him. She refused to let any child she gave birth to be cheated out of life just because hers wasn’t together at the time, Miller explained. Miller added, she endured her greatest loss to deliver me my greatest joy.

It’s clear that the new mother adored her son from the first moment they met, but what she might not have known at the time was that it was just the beginning of the adoption journey. Just before Eli’s fourth birthday, he got a baby brother, and he was the one who picked the name, Oliver or Ollie.

After the skateboarding trick, Miller took the new arrival home from the hospital 24 hours ahead of Eli’s birthday. Miller has also maintained a relationship with Ollie’s biological mother in the years since he was born. This is known as an open adoption and means that the birth parents remain aware of the developments in the child’s life, but in Eli’s case, he didn’t know his biological mum for many years.

What’s more, twelve months after Eli was born, the Millers were again contacted by the adoption agency that they’d found their son through. They were told that his birth mother was pregnant again with another boy, and the mom wanted the brothers to stay together, so she took a flight to Utah to meet with the Millers about potentially adopting another child of hers.

Miller was hopeful that the adoption agency would also believe it was in everyone’s best interest to raise the brothers together. We thought because they were siblings and we had just given this agency over half of our annual income and sold most of our belongings to bring Eli home that they would be willing to work with us, she wrote.

But she claims the company wasn’t willing to discuss a payment agreement or any discount of any sort. Instead, Miller alleges that the adoption firm cut off communication when the family made it clear that they wouldn’t be able to pay the high costs outright this time around. According to the mum of two, the agency also implied to Eli’s birth mother that the couple was not interested in adopting another child.

So despite everyone’s wishes, they couldn’t take Eli’s brother home. We had no choice but to let go and grieve the loss of the baby boy who would never be ours, Miller explained. The last thing we heard was that she had placed him with another family.

The agency never delivered the letters or pictures that she requested, and we never heard from her again. So as Eli grew up, he didn’t know his biological mother and the Millers had no way of contacting her. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

At the same time, Miller claims that the agency in question ended up losing its certification and faced other legal issues. She also alleges that the business owner was put behind bars on various charges of financial misconduct. The family eventually concluded that when it came to having another child, they would try an alternative means of adoption.

We decided to go the private route the next time around and take on the emotional and financial burdens of an expectant Mama all by ourselves, Miller wrote on Instagram. We were confident we could do it better than any agency could have.

During the ensuing process, however, Miller admitted that there were red flags everywhere, but the couple didn’t see the warning signs until it was too late. The mum of two later confessed that they not only suffered the emotional trauma of trying and failing to adopt a daughter but they were also left struggling financially. As a result, we left an unbearable situation with broken hearts in an empty bank account, Miller revealed.

We had gone to hell and back for a baby girl we would never know. Ultimately, though, things worked out for the family when they welcomed Dolly into the world.

But it’s clear that losing out on an adoption both of her daughter and Eli’s brother left its Mark. Miller told her followers on Instagram in March 2019 that she and her husband probably wouldn’t have gone on to adopt Ally if things had worked out with Eli’s brother.

But while the couple eventually got the two children they longed for, their story wasn’t over yet because out of the blue, when Eli was ten, something happened that changed their lives forever. Miller would send a message one evening on social media, and she was shocked to discover that it was from Eli’s birth mother, who had tracked the Millers down despite the limited information she had about them. She knew our first names and like a needle and a haystack, opened an account to find us, Miller recalled.

On love what matters instantly, the Millers wrote back to her, and between them, the trio pieced together everything that had happened. Moreover, during their conversation, Miller and her husband knew that it was time for Eli to meet the woman who gave birth to him, so they arranged for her to come and visit them. As a result, in November 2018, Eli’s biological mother saw her son for the first time since she’d given him up for adoption a decade earlier, and right away, the connection between them was evident.

The moment she walked into the room and they took each other is what can only be described as one of those rare, deeply awwing moments that Etches itself deep in your soul where you know you will forever remember it, Miller wrote. One of those moments where I give up words for a while because none of them are big enough.

I felt quiet and small, Miller continued. Standing there, I felt like my heart had taken up residence in my throat and it would come crawling out if I tried to speak. Both Eli’s birth mother and his adoptive mom subsequently burst into tears and shared an embrace.

Although the adoption had taken place a decade ago, Miller stated that she’d never forgotten the love and bravery, and heartbreak that Eli’s biological mother went through to give him up. Miller added It’s now my one great honor to be able to give her back these moments of her life after what she’s given me for the rest of mine.

It was a touching experience for the whole family, and it only became more emotional from there. That’s because Eli’s biological mom told the Millers that his brother, whom they’d tried and failed to take home all those years earlier, had been adopted by a family whose home is less than an hour away from the Millers.

What’s more, Eli’s birth mother organized a meeting between the two brothers during her visit. They encountered each other in a hotel, and Miller could see that Eli had an instant bond with Perry, his biological younger brother. Although it was bittersweet for Miller, she felt as if Harry, too, had always been part of her life.

I hugged him tight and saw how God wrote this story for the good of all of us, Miller wrote on Instagram. For me, for the Mama who adopted him, and for his birth mum who had to make an impossible choice, most especially, though for the two of them.

Eli and Perry then went swimming together and knew how to do plenty of the same moves. Moreover, as they talked, the brothers found out that they had lots in common. Their connection was instantaneous, and by the end of the day, they were already stealing each other’s stuff and wrestling each other to the ground, Miller revealed.

As Miller and her son drove home after the brothers had met for the first time, the mom thought about how different things could have been if she’d successfully adopted Perry all those years before. It was an emotional moment for the family, but ultimately, Miller felt that things had worked out for the best for Miller and her husband.

The experience was healing and helped them get over the heartache of their first failed adoption, and they knew that this was just the beginning for Eli and Perry. Miller made it clear that she planned for the brothers to be part of each other’s lives going forward. Living just three-quarters of an hour apart Meant that Eli and Perry could potentially spend time together frequently, and Miller intended for them to get to know each other much better.

 

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Guy Fawkes’ punishment was one of the most severe in English history – here’s what happens when a body is hung, drawn and quartered

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Fawkes and his co-conspirators were sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering. Crispijn van de Passe the Elder/ Wikimedia Commons

After their infamous plot to destroy parliament was foiled, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators received one of the most severe judicial sentences in English history: hanging, drawing and quartering. According to the Treason Act 1351 , this punishment involved…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

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That you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck and being alive cut down, your privy members shall be cut off and your bowels taken out and burned before you, your head severed from your body and your body divided into four quarters to be disposed of at the King’s pleasure.

This process aimed not only to inflict excruciating pain on the condemned, but to serve as a deterrent – demonstrating the fate of those who betrayed the Crown. While Fawkes reportedly jumped from the gallows – which meant he avoided the full extent of his punishment – his co-conspirators apparently weren’t so lucky.

By dissecting each stage of this medieval punishment from an anatomical perspective, we can understand the profound agony each of them endured.

Torture for confession

Before his public execution on January 31 1606, Fawkes was tortured to force a confession about his involvement in the “gunpowder plot”.

The Tower of London records confirm that King James I personally authorised “the gentler tortures first”. Accounts reveal that Fawkes was stretched on the rack – a device designed to slowly pull the limbs in opposite directions. This stretching inflicted severe trauma on the shoulders, elbows and hips, as well as the spine.

The forces exerted by the rack probably exceeded those required for joint or hip dislocation under normal conditions.

Substantive differences between Fawkes’ signatures on confessions between November 8 and shortly before his execution may indicate the amount of nerve and soft tissue damage sustained. It also illustrates how remarkable his final leap from the gallows was.

An engraving depicting a person being tortured on the rack.
The rack slowly pulled a prisoner’s limbs in opposite directions. Wellcome Collection/ Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA

Stage 1: hanging (partial strangulation)

After surviving the torture of the rack, Fawkes and his gang faced the next stage of their punishment: hanging. But this form of hanging only partially strangled the condemned – preserving their consciousness and prolonging their suffering.

Partial strangulation exerts extreme pressure on several critical neck structures. The hyoid bone , a small u-shaped structure above the larynx, is prone to bruising or fracture under compression .

Simultaneously, pressure on the carotid arteries restricts blood flow to the brain, while compression of the jugular veins causes pooling of blood in the head – probably resulting in visible haemorrhages in the eyes and face.

Because the larynx and trachea (both essential for airflow) are partially obstructed, this makes breathing laboured. Strain on the cervical spine and surrounding muscles in the neck can lead to tearing, muscle spasms or dislocation of the vertebra – causing severe pain. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

Fawkes brought his agony to a premature end by leaping from the gallows. Accounts from the time tell us:

His body being weak with the torture and sickness, he was scarce able to go up the ladder – yet with much ado, by the help of the hangman, went high enough to break his neck by the fall.

This probably caused him to suffer a bilateral fracture of his second cervical vertebra, assisted by his own bodyweight – an injury known as the “hangman’s fracture” .

Stage 2: Drawing (disembowelment)

After enduring partial hanging, the victim would then be “drawn” – a process which involved disembowelling them while still alive. This act mainly targeted the organs of the abdominal cavity – including the intestines, liver and kidney, as well as major blood vessels such as the abdominal aorta.

The physiological response to disembowelment would have been immediate and severe. The abdominal cavity possesses a high concentration of pain receptors – particularly around the membranous lining of the abdomen . When punctured, these pain receptors would have sent intense pain signals to the brain, overwhelming the body’s capacity for pain management . Shock would soon follow due to the rapid drop in blood pressure caused by massive amounts of blood loss.

Stage 3: quartering (dismemberment)

Quartering was also supposed to be performed while the victim was still alive. Though no accounts exist detailing at what phase victims typically lost consciousness during execution, it’s highly unlikely many survived the shock of being drawn.

So, at this stage, publicity superseded punishment given the victim’s likely earlier demise. Limbs that were removed from criminals were preserved by boiling them with spices. These were then toured around the country to act as a deterrent for others.

Though accounts suggest Fawkes’s body parts were sent to “the four corners of the United Kingdom”, there is no specific record of what was sent where. However, his head was displayed in London .

Traitor’s punishment

The punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering was designed to be as anatomically devastating as it was psychologically terrifying. Each stage of the process exploited the vulnerabilities of the human body to create maximum pain and suffering, while also serving as a grim reminder of the consequences of treason.

This punishment also gives us an insight into how medieval justice systems used the body as a canvas for social and political messaging. Fawkes’s fate, though unimaginable today, exemplifies the extremes to which the state could, and would, go to maintain control, power and authority over its subjects.

The sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering was officially removed from English law as part of the Forfeiture Act of 1870 .

 

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OPINION: 4 Children Who Were Sentenced to life imprisonment At A Young Age And what They Did

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There are many unusual things happening across the world. Children are charming and lovely, yet others are really dangerous and have been involved in a variety of illegal activities in society.

In this post, we’ll look at four children who were condemned to life in jail Please keep in mind that some of these children are now adults…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

1. Joshua Phillips:

Joshua Phillips stabbed his neighbor’s eight-year-old daughter and put the girl’s body under his bed at home. After eight days, his mother discovered the body.

Joshua Phillips was fourteen years old when he committed this act, according to reports, and he was sentenced to life in jail.

Take a look at how Joshua Phillips is now.

2. Eric Smith:

Eric Smith, according to sources, was condemned to life in jail many years ago. Eric Smith was just 13 years old when he hit a 4-year-old boy with a rock and killed him.

Following multiple conversations with Eric, he stated that he was bullied by several senior kids at his school and that he killed the youngster because he was irritated and upset. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

3. Lionel Tate:

Lionel Tate was one of the youngest people to get a life sentence.

According to sources, when he was 13 years old, Lionel Tate killed his neighbor’s six-year-old daughter.

Lionel Tate claimed he was boxing with the young girl.

4. Brian Lee Draper:

Brian Lee Draper was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 for murdering a classmate, according to reports.

The murder was committed by Brian Lee Draper and his friend Torey Adamcik, who was sixteen years old at the time.

Parents should always endeavor to teach their children how to be good children, as well as pray for them.

 

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Lady Caught Feeding Neighbor’s Baby With Faeces & Urine Speaks From Prison, Gives This Ugly Reason

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A woman named Stella Namwanje was arrested in Uganda for allegedly committing an atrocious act against her neighbor’s baby. Reports indicate that she was caught on video defecating and urinating on the infant before feeding him the waste. This shocking behavior has drawn widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the child’s welfare…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

The incident took place in the Binyonyi A area of the Nyendo-Mukungwe division. Local authorities acted swiftly after the disturbing footage circulated on social media, prompting community outrage. The police have since taken Namwanje into custody to investigate the circumstances surrounding her actions and ensure the safety of the child.

The case has sparked discussions about the need for stronger measures to protect vulnerable individuals, especially children, from abuse. It highlights the alarming reality of child torture and the psychological issues that may drive such behavior. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

As the investigation unfolds, the community is rallying to support the affected family and prevent similar incidents in the future. The legal proceedings against Namwanje will likely focus on the extent of her actions and the necessary repercussions for such a heinous crime.

 

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