The Detroit News
February 6, 2009

Girl tells police: Mom ‘cooks me in oven’

Hamtramck woman calls police herself, is charged with torturing kids, 4 and 5 years old.

Christine Ferretti

HAMTRAMCK — The license plate in the window of the family Cadillac reads “Best Dad.” But a 4-year-old girl told police Mom wasn’t nearly so kind.

“Mom cooks me like a turkey in the oven,” she told police.

Hamtramck cops stumbled onto the graphic allegations of burnings, beatings and torture after the girl’s mother phoned police Jan. 23 and confessed to “harming her children,” Detective Ben Bielecki said Thursday….([1] Full Story)