Chained, Tortured, and Starved: The WORST Case of Abuse That Will Make you Cry: Malinda Hoagland
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What happened to Malinda Hoagland?
Today's case involves the story of two low-life pathetic excuses for human beings who never should have had the chance to be around an innocent 12 year old little girl. Melinda Hoagland experienced things straight out of a nightmare and even though there were so many red flags, so many adults in her life who could have stepped in, no one did. And as a result of this inaction, these adults turning their cheek away from the signs that were right in front of them, Melinda is no longer with us. Melinda Hoagland was born on July 4th, 2011, to Rondalyn Smith and Rendell Hoagland in Strudesburg, Pennsylvania. Melinda had three older half-siblings, Emily, who is 15 years older, Abby, 11 years older, and Jamie, who is 10 years older.
I believe they all had the same father, but different mothers. According to her sisters, Melinda lived her early years with her father in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, while her sisters lived with their mothers. Melinda was always known as a bright, bubbly child who absolutely loved springtime in the Poconos, always catching butterflies and lightning bugs. She saw her sisters on a regular basis, especially on holidays and during the summer months. Melinda loved her sisters so very much, and they loved her just as much. However, it seemed that the close relationship Melinda had with her sisters all changed once Rendell got a new girlfriend, Cindy Warren, who he met through Facebook dating in 2019.
As soon as Cindy entered their lives, the sisters felt that something was off, so they looked into her past and what they found was concerning, to say the least. They found that about 10 years prior, in 2009, Cindy Warren and her then-husband pleaded guilty to charges of child abuse regarding their then-three-year-old son, Isaiah. In this case, it was reported that they would lock Isaiah in his bedroom for hours on hours at a time as punishment. When he wasn't locked away, they would beat him with a belt or force him to walk up and down the stairs repeatedly with his hands over his head. Cindy eventually told the courts that her husband, McKinley, was the one doing most of the abuse, but she watched it happen and never did anything about it. I'm not sure exactly what her punishment for this was, but it appears that Cindy did eventually regain custody of Isaiah. but that's not all these people were involved with.
It was reported that once investigators looked into Isaiah's case, they were able to gather more evidence regarding a prior case involving McKinley's then two-year-old daughter, Jessica, who he had from a previous relationship, but who was living with McKinley and Cindy when they were together. Back in 2000, McKinley had beat his After charging him with child abuse from Isaiah's case, there was enough evidence to charge him with little Jessica's death as well. McKinley pleaded guilty to both charges and is currently serving 25 to 30 years for little Jessica's death. But from this, we can already see that this woman is bad news. She had a history of at the very least standing by and watching as the man she's with abuses and even murders their children. and at worst, she may have participated and just minimized her role in this. Then again, after this man murders his daughter, she goes on to have a child of her own with him and once again, she stands by, participates as he's being neglected and abused.
So of course, after Melinda's sisters found out this disturbing information about Cindy, they told Rendell that he is not who he thinks she is. she should not be allowed to be around Melinda. But these warnings didn't shake Rendall at all. In fact, they only made him upset at his daughters. From that point on, according to Melinda's sisters, Rendall made it as hard as possible for them to see Melinda. Then, soon after, Rendall moved with Melinda to Westtown Township about two hours from the Poconos. With this move, Rendell told his daughters that they were no longer welcome in their home, nor were they welcome around Melinda.
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