Child Forced to Sleep on Plywood. She's Killed when Abused Brother Sets Home on Fire.
Child Forced to Sleep on Plywood. She's Killed when Abused Brother Sets Home on Fire. I'm going to give you a heads up. This is a horrific story. A Georgia jury convicted 51-year-old William Linn McCue of Loganville on felony murder and other serious charges tied to years of abuse that left his 10-year-old daughter Zowey unable to escape a house fire. Zowey had been forced to sleep on a piece of plywood laid across the bathtub inside a windowless bathroom that her parents treated as her locked bedroom. Her mother got two younger sons out during the fire but couldn’t reach Zowey in time. The fire was set by Zowey’s 15-year-old brother, who later testified he did it to escape the abuse he and his siblings were suffering at the hands of their parents. He walked about six miles afterward to get help at a church. Early on he faced his own charges but the focus shifted to the parents once investigators uncovered the full picture inside the home. The kids were beaten, forced to...