Brittany Williams, 7: Was Allegedly Given Away To A Woman In 2000
The young girl lived with AIDS and needed constant medical attention.
Life at home for seven-year-old Brittany Williams wasn’t an easy one. Her mother, Rose Marie Thompson, was rounding the end of her pregnancy with Brittany when she found out that she had contracted AIDS. Following her baby’s birth, it was confirmed that little Brittany, too, had the disease. After entering the world, Baby Brittany was shuffled from one foster home to another, and not long before she passed away in 1996, The Charley Project reports that Brittany’s mother gave her daughter to Kim E. Parker to be cared for in Richmond, Virginia.
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Age Progression
The women knew one another after meeting through a charity that helped young children with AIDS and other special needs. According to reports, Parker’s home wasn’t much better than the sordid life that Brittany was living with Thompson. It is said that she lived off donations given by the charity as well as benefits from the government. Authorities often visited Parker after they received several calls about child abuse or neglect, and upon entering her home, it was described as being so dirty that it was barely inhabitable.
A Caregiver Changes Her Story
In August 2000, Brittany was taken to the doctor for a regular check-up, and mysteriously, that was the last time anyone saw the little girl. When she didn’t enroll in school that year, Parker was arrested for truancy. She told authorities that she was no longer Brittany’s guardian because she’d given the child to her two friends, Kathie Evans and Linda Hodges (or Jones). Moreover, Parker claimed that she’d paid Jones a total of $8,000 to care for Brittany but insisted she believed the little girl would be returned to her.
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