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Parents Abandoned Her Because Of Her “Looks”. 23 Years Later, They Hear A Knock On The Door.. –

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These parents abandoned their daughter because she was ugly. However, they received a surprise 23 years later when they heard a knock on their door and were forced to face the mistakes of the past.

Lenell and Keeny Lance were soaking in the ambiance of their Saturday afternoon when a sudden knock on the door interrupted them. Some 30 minutes ago, Lenell had ordered pizza for their lunch, so she believed it was the delivery man. Quickly, she made for the door, eager to grab a bite of her long-awaited snack. But to her surprise, she met a puzzling sight. Two figures stood on her patio, both Black ladies. Unlike the one standing directly in front of her, the other lady wore a nose mask and face cap, concealing her face…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

The 47-year-old lady gazed at the unexpected guests with knitted eyebrows. “How may I help you?”

In response, the lady in front of her politely requested a bit of her time, introducing herself as Delta, a local journalist from Wisconsin. After a few seconds of staring in confusion, the middle-aged lady shook her head. “I’m sorry, but I’m busy,” she huffed in annoyance, motioning to shut the door in their faces when the second lady suddenly said something that made her stop dead in her tracks.

“This is about your daughter, ma’am,” her voice was something in between angry and disgusted, yet she added through her mask, “The daughter you abandoned 23 years ago.”

The sudden words struck Lenell in her spot, transporting her to a time in the past she had long since forgotten. In a few minutes, she would realize that this meeting would take an intense turn, but not for good—especially for her and her husband.

Lenell and Keeny were the model couple of their time. Lenell was a pretty lady with a line of suitors who shuffled each month. Similarly, Keeny was a heartthrob, an embodiment of everything ladies loved in a guy. He was tall, handsome, intelligent, and sporty, which got him unnecessary attention at every turn. Together, they never failed to flaunt their beautiful union at events and on social media.

Soon after, graduation came, and the pair remained together. With school out of the way, it was time for them to start a career and make long-lasting plans for the future. They both started working entry-level jobs, knowing that soon enough, they would have enough experience to demand more. Keeny needed a little more time to get his life in check and pop the big question, and Lenell waited with anticipation each passing day for it to come.

Unbeknownst to the pair, fate had other plans for them, ones they never saw coming. Lenell became pregnant all of a sudden. The news shocked both her and Keeny, who were ill-prepared to get married, let alone start a family. At this point, Lenell was 23 years old, and Keeny was 2 years older. Moreover, they barely scraped by individually, working minimum-wage jobs to make ends meet. The thought of raising a child seemed terribly daunting, to say the least. But despite these obvious reasons, the couple still decided to keep the baby.

Following this decision, Keeny doubled his hustle, working and investing to provide for Lenell and their unborn child as she kept working as long as her body allowed her to. As time passed, they began to embrace the prospects of raising kids and expanding their family. With their current financial situation, getting married before the delivery was not a good option. They still needed to cover expenses for their upkeep, antenatal checkups, and even their baby’s care products.

In one of Lenell’s antenatal visits, the doctor performed an ultrasound and blessed the couple with fantastic news—they were expecting a baby girl. Lenell and Keeny were thrilled with the news and could not wait to meet their little princess. Suddenly, the beauty of parenthood enveloped them. Despite their earlier reservations, they desperately wanted to welcome their daughter. With their striking appearance, they believed their little girl would be a head-turner. They were so elated about their upcoming arrival that they debated over cute names for her before eventually settling for Damiana.

After finalizing all the preparations, Lenell counted the days leading to her due date with excitement, not bracing herself for the terrible surprise that day would bring to her and Keeny.

Finally, the day arrived, and Lenell gave birth to their daughter. Keeny waited outside the labor room, his mind a plethora of thoughts and emotions, when the sound of crying cut through the imposing walls that separated him from Lenell and his daughter. His knees buckled in happiness. With the process finally over, he went into the room and made a beeline for Lenell, whose exhausted body had sagged into the bed. Both beamed at each other, glad they had pulled through this final lap. Yet even with the calm that overcame them, their hearts fluttered excitedly at the thought of finally meeting Damiana.

After what felt like a lifetime, the doctor finally handed Keeny his daughter. But the minute he gazed into her tiny face, his heart sank. Lenell watched as the smile dropped from Keeny’s face. Fearing something was wrong, she peered into the little blanket to see her daughter, only for her expression to mirror his in a heartbeat. Damiana was far from what they expected. Her skin tone was darker than Lenell and Keeny’s, and her features were unlike anything they had envisioned. She had a few wrinkles on her face and a rare eye condition called heterochromia, with a blue iris in one eye and black in the other. Her lids were also very droopy and gave her the appearance of a baby who was already fed up with life. Even as her face scrunched up in a cry, she looked utterly unattractive.

Seeing the parents’ disappointed faces, the doctor reassured them that Damiana was a special child. “She might not look like what you expected,” he said gently, “but give it time—you’ll love her all the same.”

However, the doctor was wrong. Looking at Damiana’s face each passing day was torture to the new parents. They struggled to see past their initial shock and disappointment. How was it possible that she never took either of their unique features? The couple had expected a miniature version of themselves, someone who would be their envy and pride. Yet Damiana was a far cry from that—it was as if they had been handed a stranger’s child. They even pictured the way their family and friends would mock them if they ever laid eyes on her. The thought caused a riptide of emotions within them, and they knew they couldn’t endure it. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

To that point, Lenell began to see how Keeny distanced himself from her and their baby. Their relationship soon became shaky, with him often accusing her of cheating on him and forcing Damiana on him as if she were his own. Over time, these recurring fights became intense and frequent, with Damiana at the center of it all. Recognizing this fact, the couple decided to make one drastic move. Not wanting to waste the little resources they had on raising a kid they struggled to love and accept, they reasoned that giving her up was for the best. Hence, after one of her postnatal visits, Lenell and Keeny dropped Damiana at the back door of a nearby local restaurant in the neighborhood, never once looking back or ever expecting to see her.

But 23 years later, these strangers showed up at their doorstep bearing news of the daughter they had abandoned that day. As they made themselves comfortable on the couch, Lenell and Keeny scrutinized them. The lady with the nose mask drew their attention more as they had an inkling of who she might be. Noticing their curious gaze, the lady in question finally took off her mask and cap, believing it futile to conceal her identity at this point.

The minute she did this, Lenell and Keeny’s eyes widened in shock. They recognized her in a heartbeat—it truly was Damiana, whom they had given up all those years back. Her features were just as they remembered, only she was not as ugly as they thought. Her eyes were shockingly beautiful now, not just odd and scary like they’d been when she was a child. And her droopy eyelids now gave her an aura of ethereal elegance. They felt drawn to her—everything about her seemed different.

The air in the room became tense, and Delta, sensing this shift in atmosphere, went straight to business. She introduced Damiana as Leah, an accomplished writer and the manager of a publishing firm. After months of tracking her birth roots, their investigation finally led them to this moment. Confused, Lenell asked why they sought them out. All eyes shifted to Leah, who took several calming breaths as if trying to control her emotions while preparing to speak.

Not wanting to bore them with specifics, she recounted her life experiences up to that point. After her abandonment, a restaurant staff member dropped her at an orphanage where she lived for most of her childhood. It wasn’t until she turned eight that a middle-aged couple adopted her. The couple had two grown kids who lived separate lives away from them. Their daughter had moved to Europe with her family, and their one and only son had died of cancer a few years back, leaving them feeling empty and lonely. They delighted in the comfort their companionship offered for a while, but it became insufficient over time. Soon after, the 55-year-old Hilda settled for adoption, which was when Leah came into the picture. They never found her appearance problematic. In fact, it was the heterochromia that caught Hilda’s attention.

Leah grew up surrounded by love and care. Although not wealthy, her adoptive parents possessed years of emotional and mental wisdom—attributes they eventually embedded in young Leah. Both Hilda

and her husband cherished art and knowledge. The then 8-year-old soon embraced the world they were creating for her. Two years later, she discovered her love for writing and often wrote stories at leisure. While in college, she took her hobby further and started publishing her books under a pseudonym. Before she knew it, she was making waves with her newfound fame. Anyone in her position would have thought of undergoing corrective surgery for her eyelids and irises with the money she was earning, yet Leah couldn’t be bothered in the least. Instead, she did something completely unexpected.

Having achieved such an incredible milestone, she felt the urge to take up a new, daring project—writing her autobiography. To do that, she knew she had to do some digging to find her roots, which eventually led to this point. Leah confessed that she contemplated undergoing plastic surgery to rub it in their faces, but then decided to prove to them that she became successful without such beauty modifications. The 23-year-old stated she was content knowing she became successful despite their rejection. Even though she lived under a false identity, she still had a lot of supporters out there who loved her for who her words portrayed her to be.

While Lenell was a bit moved by the speech, Keeny did not seem entirely remorseful. He only explained that it was all in the past and urged Leah to move on with the life she had created for herself. Taking this as her cue to leave, Leah and Delta rose to their feet. However, just as they got to the threshold of the front door, Lenell met up with her, her voice shaking with emotion.

“We’re sorry. It might not seem that way, but we are.”

Without saying a word in response, Leah walked out of the door and out of their lives for good.

The encounter remained engraved in Lenell’s mind. Slightly heartbroken, she tried to connect with Leah through the books she wrote. There, she saw how amazing her daughter was, marveling at her ability to convey her emotions through writing. She terribly regretted abandoning her because of her looks, especially since she had grown up to be such a talented, smart, resourceful young lady. Instead, she had never been able to fall pregnant again and had spent the last 23 years wondering what kind of mother she could have been.

When her long-awaited autobiography was finally published, Lenell quickly read it. A lone tear dropped from her eyes as regret enveloped her. The daughter she had ruthlessly abandoned had turned into a confident and eloquent young lady with a mind of her own. She felt a mixture of pride and envy—pride because she genuinely was her daughter, and envy because she played no part in raising the genius woman she grew to be.

Through this experience, she learned a valuable lesson: Every child has unique features, and beauty was never the standard for their value. Too bad she had to learn it the hard way.

 

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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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  • Michelle SpearProfessor of Anatomy, University of Bristol

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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