Children scathing of dead mum in obituary
Six children have revealed years of neglect, torture and abuse in an obituary for their dead mother.
The chilling obituary was submitted to local Nevada paper, the Reno Gaazette-Journal and exposes Nevada woman Marianne Johnson-Reddick as a serial child abuser.
The adult children wrote that their mother, who died last month aged 78, spent a lifetime torturing them and they were relieved her "evil and violent life" was over.
Mrs Johnson-Reddick is survived by six of her eight children.
"While she neglected and abused her small children, she refused to allow anyone else to care or show compassion towards them. When they became adults she stalked and tortured anyone they dared to love," the September 10 obituary said. "Everyone she met, adult or child was tortured by her cruelty and exposure to violence, criminal activity, vulgarity, and hatred of the gentle or kind human spirit.
"On behalf of her children whom she so abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the after-life reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty and shame that she delivered on her children.
"Her surviving children will now live the rest of their lives with the peace of knowing their nightmare finally has some form of closure."
The children claimed they wanted to bring about a war on child abuse in the US.
"Most of us have found peace in helping those who have been exposed to child abuse and hope this message of her final passing can revive our message that abusing children is unforgiveable, shameless, and should not be tolerated in a humane society.
"Our greatest wish now is to stimulate a national movement that mandates a purposeful and dedicated war against child abuse in the United States of America."
The newspaper originally made an error with the date of her death, publishing it as September 30. It was corrected online after confirmation from the Washoe County Public Guardian’s office in Nevada.
