Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories

and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand

the frustration of why and how this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listenar discretion is advised.

This week's story is a listener suggestion.

Thank you to Lillian for bringing Adeline's story to my attention.

The number of people that let this little girl down.

Her parents, her grandparents, child protection.

Adeline dying before she really got the chance to live.

She was still only a newborn, and yet she knew nothing but being disposable.

This story just highlighting the importance that CPS need to step up and get those regular checks done to protect the safety of these innocent babies.

January 2020, Carolina Beach, North Carolina.

A newborn baby girl was placed under a safety plan in her grandparents' custody to keep her safe.

These grandparents allowed the baby's parents to move in to bomb with their baby.

And very quickly, the safety plan would not be followed, leading to fatal consequences.

This is Adeline's story.

Adeline Elizabeth Garner was born December 16, 2019 in Wilmington, North Carolina, to parents Amy Miles and Joel Gardner. Adeline already having four

older half-siblings born to her mother, Amy, all of whom were in foster care at the time

little Adeline was born. Her next classist sibling and age was born in 2016, and this would

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