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listener discretion is advised. Welcome to True Crime Brewery. I'm Jill.

And I'm Dick.

The family portrayed on social media by Jennifer Hart seemed perfect.

She and her wife Sarah were a progressive and loving couple with six adopted black children.

Pictures on Facebook showed two moms giving their disadvantaged children a better life.

Never mind that the pictures looked very posed

and the children were rail thin.

Real life for the heart children was actually far from perfect. A trial of abuse followed the family from Minnesota to Oregon to Washington

until Jennifer Hart drove the family's SUV off of a California cliff.

Join us at the quiet end for the Hart family tragedy.

This is a case that is a disturbing example

of on-check child abuse, failures in the foster care and adoption system,

and a society that doesn't value children enough to intervene on their behalf.

In the final analysis, Jen and Sarah Hart were responsible for the children's deaths

but that certainly doesn't mean that there was no way this tragedy could have been

prevented and what have we got for a beer today, Dick?

We have a beer from one of my favorite California breweries.

It's called The Brewery, and the beer is called Mash.

This is an English barley wine. It's 12.5% alcohol by volume, so it's definitely

a sipper. The beer is a pretty red color, kind of ruby red, little tiny tan head, nice aroma of biscuit, caramel, burnt sugar, and oak.

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