This makes me physically ill.

This makes me physically ill.

Horrific. Just awful. My heart is breaking for those poor children, the dead and the one still living.

oh. my. god.

Watch for the gathering of roaches, (I mean attorneys!)as they come to her aid and begin to point out how hard she has had it in her life. With any luck, they'll be able to turn her into a victim who just couldn't help herself.

All she needs is love, they will tell us, and that there is good in her life; thus, we should give her a second chance (after counseling, of course) so that she can become a useful member of society again. After all, it is the fault of society she became this way, they will say. Or something like it.

Steve,
You need to provide barf bags, like the airlines.

Conflicting reports! Was Renee a foster parent or adoptive parent. Either way, what are these government bodies doing? Does anyone belive in their jobs or the care of people especilaly the children? This is totally unaccepable... These small or large government bodies need to be responsible for there authority and/or punishable. If originally foster children when did Renee have visits to check the welfare of the kids? If adopted, who gave the authority and are these parents checked? If originally foster then adopted makes it even worse. Some one was not doing the job they are paid for. Seems like our government in as aspects really do not know what they are doing. They all need to be responsible for thier actions as we all....

Sick. Just plain sick.

I move for immediate execution of this sick, demented individual. There is no forgivness for the murdering of defensless children.

This is terrible I hope Renee Spends life in prison for killing to young Children. I mean was has our world come to, to start killing our OWN children.......Where was the goverment at where was the police also where in the hell was CPS?? I cant believe that this happen right down the street from my house. Where sometimes children aren't safe with their own parents!!!! Maybe she deserves to be stuffed in a freezer. Hopefully our JUSTICE system wont let us down and let her SUFFER like those poor kids had too.. But think the lord that the 7 year old girl is free from the evil WOMAN...........MY heart goes out to those poor children who had to suffer and to the 7 year old girl who is SAFE now may god watch over her a nd protect from evil.

What kind of monster can do this to children? I am just heart sick over these poor defenseless children and the horror they suffered at the hands of someone who was supposed to love and care for them! If Maryland does not have the death penalty then ship her to Florida and they can execute her along with the other baby killer Casey Anthony who also killed her own 2 year old baby girl!!!
I have to believe these monsters will burn in the lake of fire for a very long time for killing babies!!
There is no defense for such an act! No child is capable of defending themselves and they have not done anything to deserve to be harmed or killed,if you do not want them ,just leave.Give them to a decent person who will not molest,rape or beat them.Parents are meant to love,nurture and protect children and raise them to know and love GOD and to be responsible,caring GOD fearing people!!
People not knowing God or living as God has intended is the very reason for all this evil in the world today!! God will judge! AMEN!

This is just down right wrong.It makes everyone angry and I would like to just whip her until I can stop crying. There are so many people who wants, love, and desire children but there may be the smallest thing in the past and they are rejected. Stop looking for the squeaky clean people and search the person's heart. I do not want to judge this thing but she looks crazy. The poor child that escaped needs to be provided with safety, love, and understanding. I want to hurt this person she seemed to be driven by greed and hate. Why were the children with her? Did she have a job or children of her own. While we all are upset there needs to be prevention how many poor children must we lose to people who are just not ready to give what they have not receive Love and Patience..

I heard about this in my local news this morning, and they said there should have been red flags for this woman due to the fact that her first adopted child was never registered in school. Also, they said that the D.C. branch of CPS does not check up on children after they are formally adopted. Today's Washington Post article raises serious questions as to how this woman passed multiple background checks (http://snipurl.com/3zp96). This woman obviously looked upon these children as a source of money, since she received $800/month for each child. Unfortunately this reason seems all too common these days. Hopefully this tragic case will at least cause the D.C. child services office to review and revise the practice of using private contractors to perform the background checks on prospective adoptive parents.

I am appalled at the system! There have been numerous similar cases in the past. The child care system is to be held responsible more so and more investigations and measures should be taken at that level to prevent such horrific acts against children! There needs to be a revised policies and strict guidelines for whom should be able, capable on a financial and "mental" level to be eligible as caregiver! There should never even be a case! She was responsible and should have all of her rights as a human being revoked! For she is less than that.

I am disgusted with CPS. CPS stands for Child Protective Services???? Where are these people when they are truly needed???? They are harassing people where they feel the most comfortable.Where they are not in fear for themselves or there vehicles.CPS is a complete joke. They need to close these offices and spend the money on finding a way to really protect our children. I hear alot of people say I hate my job but it's a pay check. H E L L O!!!!!! this is not the position to have with that kind of attitude!!!! close these offices, get rid of every last one of these people and find a way to really do something about these horrific crimes against children. CPS YOU SUCK!!!!!!

THIS WOMAN IS SICK SHE NEEDS TO DIE I HATE TO SEE THIS HAPPPEN BUT IT DOES I SIT IN CRY WHEN I HEAR STUFF LIKE THIS I HAVE KIDS AND I WOULD NEVER TRY TO HURT THEM THIS WOMAN IS EVIL AND I REALLY HOPE RENEE BOWMAN BURN IN HELL

CPS is no better than when they had orphanages, same goes for the Foster Care system. Let's all face it, there is no one watching the children and there is a special hell for people like this woman.

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen. As a retired Police Officer, I can assure you that this is not the first time nor the last time an incident like this will occur. And though I will sound callous, I am not without sympathy for any victims of this nature. For those who asked, "Where were the police?" I say one thing, "Would you like us to live in your house to monitor all that you do all of the time?" I didn't think so. In my tenure as a police officer, I have responded to rapes in progress, homicides in progress, violent domestics, barricades, raids, investigated pedophiles, written reports on infants who died from rape, and have been involved in the capture of serial killers and rapists (just to name a few). When I was new, I believed I could make a difference. I still did until my last day. I kept believeing because I had hope that the people whose lives I affected would, in turn, replace the favor. I guess the easiest way to put it is that people, "would pay it forward". I have read the entries in reference to this incident, but how many here are willing to step forward and "legally" make a difference in the system? How many people here, are willing to question those who allowed this mother to have those kids? You may see a few hundred, but in a community of thousands, those few hundred will not have the impact as those of a few thousand. As a citizen, we all have that responsibility. For those who mentioned that, they are right. I have strapped on the uniform. I have been shot at many times. I have been nearly killed for trying to help erase the violence. What I've learned is that Police Work is nothing more than a cleaning crew to clean the mess that we all leave behind. If everyone policed themselves, we wouldn't even need policemen. If everyone involved themselves in fighting for the rights of the victims here, only then can we truly make an impact in preventing future incidents of this nature. Feeling sorry is not enough. Legal action must be taken!

One can offfer our support to her through Clavert County Dep of Social Services Maryland, please send letters of concern they do help.
Lets hope that she's placed in a caring home.For the person who asked about them being this monster's foster daughter they were, then she adopted then and was collecting 2,400 from a program that helps adoptive parents when they adopt '
"special children needs".Perhaps they came from a already abusive family and were placed with this abusive woman and were adopted by her.
Simply deplorable.

Let's face it, there is no hell.

I FEEL REALLY BAD FOR ALL THE KIDS THAT LIVED IN THAT HOUSE. RENEE BOWMAN SHOULD DIE FOR HURTING THOSE KIDS.I HAVE A LOT OF KIDS I LOVE AND I DON'T SEE HOW ANYONE COULD HURT THEM-OR KID. RENEE SHOULD HAVE TO SUFFER FOR WHAT SHE DID.

she was a mean witch and i no i should not juge but i will say she should burn for ever more.

i keep reading all these posts about CPS and i can't help but wonder how many of YOU people have done social work before. have you ANY IDEA how frustrating the system is? how many loopholes there are? how much work these people do?

all the social workers i've ever known have been hard-working, good-hearted individuals who got into social work because they wanted to help people. they don't deserve to get crapped on as though they were the cause of this terrible tragedy.

yes, the system sucks, but don't blame CPS for this woman! she is a monster, and whether or not society made her that way is irrelevant. but it DOES take a village. so before you all start blaming the social workers who have stacks of cases up to their eyeballs and no help from YOU, take a look in the mirror and ask yourselves what YOU'VE done to make things better.

i for one think all social workers need to be wiped off the face ofthe earth. me and my wife had our 2 girls kidnapped by cps in wright co mn. 8 yrs ago because my older daughter lied to them. and our 12 yr old is in foster care and will be til18. and they have her on all kinds of drugs for adhd witch there is no sutch illness. they just need to give everything a name and a drug for it now a days whats with the retarded system in this country its run by the biggest retards out there. i mean how can cps come and take your kids with no evidence whatsoever. i knwhy because every kid they kidnap from a loving home they get 4000 to 6000 dollars from the federal gov. and its job security for all those blithering idiots who if they had a brain they wouldnt know what to do with it. you should see how totally stupid they are in the county that we re dealing with!thesae people need to get their kids taken away on lies and then they would see what its like for us innocent families. i just hope god their lives from them. and soon. in fact if cps keeps it up GOD wont have to take their lives people that have their kids kidnapped by these idiots will start doing it! get the facts morons before you start ripping innocent families apart!!!!!!

This was my best friend and I never even knew the children were dead. She kept it hidden from everybody. Me and my husband sat in her house while her children laid dead in the freezer. We went out shopping and brought clothes for children that were no longer alive. For 2 yrs we went Christmas shopping for who? Renee needs help mentally something caused her to snap in her mind and harm the children in a way that no one should ever have. I just hope that the youngest child will in someway be able to move on from this as she has her whole life in front her. Its funny how children still love their parents even after they have hurt them time and time again. I remember the youngest kept asking for her mom even after she ran away.

As a member of the family we are horrified and devastated and in no way condone the actions of Renee. We have lost touch and did not know where she was. All we can do is pray for her soul, and for the children. Mental Health is the disease that is swept under the rug and no one wants to talk about. Its not a scapegoat but no one in their right mind would ever do something like this clearly. There are more people than you know walking around clinically undiagnosed. Yes in your family too. Something has to be done fo this population.

WHY COULDNT SHE HAVE DONE THAT TO ALL THE EVIL SOCIAL WORKERS OUT THERE NOW THAT WOULDVE BEEN HILARIOUS!!!

Yes, Renee is at fault; however, the real killers are the social workers that allowed this to happen. It's really unfortunate that this happpened, but it's clear Renee needs help. I agree with the family member, no one in their right mind would do something like this.

I knew this woman, grew up with her in N.E. DC. She was always a weird child/teenager. Her biological mother was mentally disturbed so she stayed with these 2 old ladies who were super strict. That is what I remember about her. I have a sister who lived down the street and when I would visit we would play with her outside.

I was very shocked to see her on television. Just sad, so sad.

Why was this woman ever allowed to adopt a child - let alone three - in the first place? They don't give potential parents psychological evaluations? Ever since Renee has been in the detention center, she has been on anti-psychotic medication, so obviously there is a serious mental problem there. It's harder for homosexuals to adopt children, but they just hand them over to lunatics?

Taunted and Her Family, in particular, thanks for posting here. It is good to be reminded that even the most heinous of crimes can be perpetrated by people with intelligent, articulate friends and family.

I have to ask, though, to Taunted, if you were that close, how did you not realize the kids were missing? I find that confusing. When you were sitting with her in a quiet house, did she make up excuses as to where they were? If they had been dead for months, didn't you see her more than a few times per year?

so you punish a mentally ill women, and her co partners in crime ( the social workers ) go free ? justice in the good iole US of A !!

It's hard to believe that something like this happened. I've worked at a child abuse and neglect hotline for 2 years now. I would like to say this is by far the worst thing I've heard but it's not. I don't really understand why social workers/CPS are being blamed in this situation. I've only read one article that said there was ever a report of alleged abuse made to CPS. In that article the social worker responded and the child didn't appear to be neglected and the home was appropriate at the time. Once you adopt a child it's your child. Social workers don't go to everyone's home and do random inspections. I think it's sad that more people in the community didn't notice or make reports to CPS or law enforcement. It's nice to vent and blame someone for these horrific crimes but the truth is it sounds like this very disturbed woman had everyone fooled. It's a terrible tragedy.