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How many children die at the hands of their adopted parents?  And of these cases, how many were utterly preventable had the agnecies charged with monitoring these kids exercised even a modest dose of competency?  Sadly, this child was placed with a calculating monster who lied her way through numerous inquiries until, finally, the child was killed.  This mother’s only decent act was to plead guilty.

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Alfreedia left her daughter to die in a freezing creek.

A Prince William County woman pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of leaving her adopted 13-year-old daughter for dead in a frigid creek in January, and county police acknowledged that they could have responded better to numerous reports that the girl was being abused and neglected.

Despite reports made to several county agencies over six years, the girl, Alexis “Lexie” Agyepong-Glover, was not removed from the home, and the case has highlighted shortcomings in the county’s policies on child abuse and runaways.

Yesterday, Alfreedia Leona Gregg-Glover, 45, of the Manassas area pleaded guilty to felony murder, felony child abuse and filing a false police report in Prince William County Circuit Court. She faces a maximum of 51 years in prison, which the county’s chief prosecutor called “an effective life sentence.” She will be sentenced in October…

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