Homeschooling hid child abuse, torture of 11-year-old Roman Lopez by stepmom - Washington Post

Left to their own devices while she lay in bed watching TV crime procedurals, and her husband, Jordan, worked long hours as a utility lineman, their days and nights passed in a penumbral blur of video games, microwave dinners and fistfights. Almost nothing resembling education took place, her sons said. But there was a shared project in which she diligently led her children: the torture of their stepbrother, Roman...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/homeschooling-child-abuse-torture-roman-lopez/