New Mexico Woman Martha Crouch

New Mexico Woman Martha Crouch
New Mexico Woman Martha Crouch

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The daughters of a couple who were arrested in New Mexico for torturing their 15 children have just offered an interview to reveal the horrors that happened to their mother, Martha Crouch, 53, and her husband Timothy, 57. According to the Alexandria Tanner, 28, and her sister Anastaisea Crouch, 27, her mother chained one of them to her bed for 3 years and the other lost a son to the blows her mother gave her.

'Our family lived in Big Lake, Alaska. My mom used to weigh me and take off my clothes to put on the scale,”Anastaisea, who currently works at a Walmart store in the town of Safford, explained to the Daily Mail. “I was a thick girl and if I weighed more than my older brothers she would get mad and hit me. One day, when I was about 8 years old, she chained me to the bed with a thick chain for a dog to be able to control what I ate”.

The now-adult says that her mother kept her in chains for about 3 years and that she only let her out when the family had visitors to go somewhere. Occasionally he allowed her to take a bath with a bucket of water.

“My parents were monsters. They are bad people. We were repeatedly abused by our mom and dad and he was so in love with her that he never did anything to stop her,”says Alexandria.

The young woman assures at 14 she became pregnant with her boyfriend of 19 and that in a fight with her mother she hit her so hard that she lost the baby. Her father has denied the facts, assuring the contrary: that it was Alexandria who beat her mother while she was expecting a baby and that this caused an abortion. "I had a fight with my mother, when I was about 14 years old, long after I lost my baby, when we were still living in Alaska," Alexandria explained to the site. “My mom went crazy and started hitting me. Then she called the police. When they arrived they arrested me for assault”, he assured.

Martha Crouch
Martha Crouch
Timothy Crouch
Timothy Crouch

For the past 30 years, the family has lived in various states, including Missiouri, Alaska, Kansas, Montana and the aforementioned New Mexico, specifically in the town of Aztec where on June 24 Martha and Timothy were detained on charges of abuse and animal cruelty..

The couple was detained after authorities investigated the report of a fight between two brothers and that uncovered the case of abuse in the Crouch home.

At the time it was revealed that one of Martha's children told the police that their mother tortured them, did not feed them and that to punish them, she executed one of her dogs and boiled the puppies of another of her pets alive, forcing them to her younger children to watch the heinous act.

The arrest uncovered reports from family agencies that for years investigated the family. Extensive complaints and abuses were sent to the authorities who are now handling the case in New Mexico.

This Wednesday, July 3, Martha Crouch will face a judge in San Juan County to hear the accusations against him. The woman faces felony charges in the third degree for abuse of a minor, assault in the fourth degree for extreme cruelty against animals and a minor charge for obstruction of an investigation of abuse and neglect of a minor, among others.

For her part, her husband faces a minor charge for obstructing an investigation of abuse and neglect of a minor. Both are being held in a county detention center without bond.

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