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Former NJ Military Couple Avoids More Prison Time For Horrific Child Abuse Former NJ Military Couple Avoids More Prison Time For Horrific Child Abuse
Former NJ Military Couple Avoids More Prison Time For Horrific Child Abuse UPDATE: A former New Jersey Army major and his wife avoided more time in federal prison Wednesday when they were resentenced for routinely torturing three adopted children by breaking bones, withholding water and force-feeding them hot sauce, among other cruelties. A federal appeals court had rejected two previous sentencings of Carolyn Jackson and John E. Jackson by U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden as too lenient. Hayden, however, said Wednesday that she believed more time behind bars would be "more punishment than is necessary" for abusing the children, all of whom were less than 4 y…

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