5 minutes; Indeed, it was not until more than five months later that she was even to learn of it. Goble had Newmaker fill out a questionnaire at the convention, from which he was able to say Candace was a fairly severe case. They were practising a form of quackery known as "rebirthing" to treat a non-existent condition called . As for not caring for her, that was definitely not the case. Candace Newmaker was a very bright and happy girl until her life was taken by those two therapists. If you are forced to sit in somebody's lap, that's perhaps the last thing that will make you feel loved by that person.First Audio Account of Holding TherapyListen to the first-hand account of a person who experienced Holding Therapy, from the age of 11 to 13, every week for two years. By the end, in confronting the trauma, a child is supposed to be reduced to an infantile state and accepting that she is helpless and hopeless without the mother. She continues to be a leading proponent of Attachment Therapy parenting, a highly authoritarian practice linked to numerous criminal cases of severe child abuse. Such session were known to last for hours. After violating their rules one time too often, the Department decided to take Elmores children for good. But, Newmaker said, she sensed there was something wrong. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. This video shows IACD still employing, among other abusive practices, Holding Therapy. (Crying). Original text material copyright 2003-2020 Advocates for Children in Therapy, Inc. WRITE USvar _rwObsfuscatedHref0 = "mai";var _rwObsfuscatedHref1 = "lto";var _rwObsfuscatedHref2 = ":ch";var _rwObsfuscatedHref3 = "ild";var _rwObsfuscatedHref4 = "ren";var _rwObsfuscatedHref5 = "int";var _rwObsfuscatedHref6 = "her";var _rwObsfuscatedHref7 = "apy";var _rwObsfuscatedHref8 = "@gm";var _rwObsfuscatedHref9 = "ail";var _rwObsfuscatedHref10 = ".co";var _rwObsfuscatedHref11 = "m";var _rwObsfuscatedHref = _rwObsfuscatedHref0+_rwObsfuscatedHref1+_rwObsfuscatedHref2+_rwObsfuscatedHref3+_rwObsfuscatedHref4+_rwObsfuscatedHref5+_rwObsfuscatedHref6+_rwObsfuscatedHref7+_rwObsfuscatedHref8+_rwObsfuscatedHref9+_rwObsfuscatedHref10+_rwObsfuscatedHref11; document.getElementById('rw_email_contact').href = _rwObsfuscatedHref; The below are clips from training tapes made by Attachment Therapists and from news documentaries about Attachment Therapy. (Screams) I'm gonna die. I hope you enjoyed the video! In this psychodrama session, a boy is pulled in opposite directions by two women, one his adoptive mother and another portraying his birth mother. Eventually, though, a feeling of powerlessness and futility overcame her and she gave up the fight. Thanks for watching. This is the transcript of a video shown in court in the trial of Julie Ponder and Connell Watkins, who wrapped a ten-year-old girl, Candace Newmaker, in a blanket, sat on her and killed her. She could be heard vomiting at one point. The sentence was deferred for 4 years, effectively making it probation, though at the end of the term, her official record will be cleared of the charge. He grabs at the boys left side, forces eye contact, shakes his head, threatens him, and forces him to yell out hateful statements. Some desperate parents still try Holding Therapy to treat autism. Angela Elmore, however, had never abused her daughter when she had her. , first claimed that Holding Therapy could cure autism. When Jeane Newmaker adopted her five-year-old daughter, Candace Newmaker, she knew it wasnt going to be easy, but she never expected it to be so hard. The treatment, during which Newmaker was suffocated, included a rebirthing script. She was taken away from her birth mother in North Carolina, allegedly because of abuse, and spent time in five foster homes before she was adopted at age 6 by a single woman, Jeane Newmaker.The adoptive mother testified that the girl was extremely difficult to handle, had started a fire in her home and abused other children. ), (Ponder and Watkins discuss someone who is stressed, then chitchat about their dream homes and a million-dollar property nearby that is being remodeled.). Ailurus 552K subscribers Subscribe 4.8K 134K views 3 years ago #Ailurus #TrueEvents I hope you. Jack Dudley McDaniel and Brita Lynn St Clair en route to arraignments. I can understand why. 19:50 -- (Candace vomits) OK, I'm throwing up. The tapes have since been sealed by the judge in the case, for privacy reasons.The tape showed Watkins and Ponder instructing Candace to try to come out of her flannel womb and then frustrating her efforts to comply. FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7877765/candace-elizabeth-newmakerAbsolutely awful. Feinberg, in showing the boy whos the boss, tickles the boy relentlessly while ordering him to try to get up. I'll hold you and love you and keep you safe forever. 08:42 -- Who's sitting on me? The convictions came almost a year to the day after a video camera recorded the four Colorado therapists killing Candace, while Jeane Newmaker, a pediatric nurse practitioner from Durham, NC, watched. Lien continues to practice today. After the horrible murder, the two doctors were sent to 16-year sentences and got off in half that time. Sources:https://archive.org/details/attachmenttherap00jeanhttps://culteducation.com/group/1115-rebirthing/17893-her-name-was-candace.htmlhttps://extras.denve. J. Cooil.[Photo: Rocky Mountain News]. This transcript contains excerpts from the last videotape that recorded Candace's her final moments on April 18, 2000. [Compared to Candace's 70-minute session, the two therapists' longest previous rebirthing sessions lasted only 6 minutes.]. October 12, 2022. Candace Newmaker was declared brain-dead the following day as a result of asphyxia. You are letting Angie control your life, she was told more than once. Connell Jane Watkins An acolyte of one of the earliest Attachment Therapists, Watkins gained nationwide prominence and reputation in AT circles, along with an unshakeable belief in her own abilities and judgment, to the exclusion of all others. BBC Horizon Taming the Problem Child (2001) featuring Ronald Federici. In still others, she was required to kick her legs in scissors fashion until she was exhausted. It feels like I'm dying!" ? Monica Pignotti, Potentially Harmful and Other Equational Therapies, 28 Sept 2010, Carla Crowder, Therapist has long ties to holding treatment,, Rah Bickley, Vicki Cheng & John Sullivan, Child specialists differ on treatment,, Craig Jarvis, Girls death pains people in Colo. town,, Type of psychotherapy is under attack after girl is smothered to death,, Craig Jarvis, Rebirthing therapist called gifted, impatient,, Patricia King (with Sharon Begley), A rebirth brings death,, Adam Pertman, Girls death spotlights therapies of desperation,, Tom Gasparoli, N.C. The two women sat motionless while Judge Jane Tidball read the verdict, but broke down in tears when they were led away in handcuffs.Candaces grandmother, Mary Davis, who with her husband attended the latter part of the trial, had no pity for the therapists. 01:25 -- Ponder: What do you think you thought about when you where in there? She was later adopted by Jeane Newmaker. Help! Then, read about the girl that James Jameson (heir to the whiskey fortune) ordered to be cannibalized in front of him. Despite this association with Watkins, Thomas continues to be a leading proponent of, ; Watkins claimed in her defense to be working under the license of Feinberg.). (Watkins tells McDaniel and St. Clair to take a break. Weld County) sent children to ACE and other Attachment Therapists in Evergreen and around the state. The therapists required Candace to assume a fetal position on the floor, wrapped her in a flannel sheet, piled over a dozen thick pillows, and pushed against the 75-pound girl with a combined weight of 673 pounds. User Clip: Candace Newmaker. again demonstrates that her approach to treatment and parenting has not changed, this time taking it to Russia. I can't breathe. (This is Candace's last word.). Play Candace Newmaker Rebirthing Therapy Video from Michelle Lopez. Published by highly respected academic publisher Praeger. Then, three assistants gather around, each armed with a large pillow. Imagine yourself as a teeny little baby inside your mothers womb and what it felt like, she says. 16:08 -- Can you let me have some oxygen? It's easier . . Twenty minutes after that, she was unwrapped and discovered to be blue and without a heartbeat.There were ten more hours of videotapes showing Candace enduring what observers called cruel, degrading, and disgusting practices in typical AT holding sessions. - Caden K.Beacons: beacons.ai/imknightytPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/imknightyt As defined in the DSM-IV, RAD is characterized by a child being either very withdrawn or overly friendly with unfamiliar people. ABC Denver affiliate KMGH contributed to this report. MP4 video - Standard Price: $4.99 or Free with MyCSPAN. The Cascade Family Center closed shortly after Van Bloems death. During the session, Candace was supposed to force her way out of a blanket, becoming "reborn" to form a bond with her adoptive mother. I can't breathe. 13:43 -- Where am I to go? (Gosney, a follower of William Emerson, has discussed using coercive restraint as therapy; he also has claimed, like a number of Attachment Therapists, that memories of trauma can be repressed and stored in cells outside of the brain. MORE COMMENTARY: A similar show demonstrating Federicis highly controlling methods, Holding Therapy, and prone coercive restraint was aired by BBC Horizon in 2001 (see video Taming the Problem Child). Stoltz speaks in the second DVD of this set about Attachment Therapy parenting. The label has nevertheless stuck to the entire incident, and it has become widely known as the Rebirthing Case. The last image of Candace shown in the courtroom was of her sitting cross-legged, staring blankly at the camera, her face, though still lovely, showing nothing of the smiling, apparently confident girl seen in her fourth-grade class photo. Her daughter simply wasnt forming an attachment to her. This prolonged position is not only painful, but it increases the risk and feelings of suffocation. Where? : This is another clip from the Attachment Therapy training tape made the Attachment Center at Evergreen (now the Institute for Attachment and Child Development), with Attachment Therapist. The. It appears the child actress became genuinely distressed by the coercive restraint. When not in therapy, the boy was subjected to further compliance training at the home of therapeutic parents. Comparison with the videos of Candace Newmakers Attachment Therapy, show at the trial of her therapists, indicates that these sessions are largely scripted, e.g. it is always assumed by the Attachment Therapist that adopted children harbor a "killing rage" since infancy and think often about killing their mothers. September 17, 2002 User Clip: The Candace Newmaker Resolution of 2002. Paramedics called to the scene were able to coax a heartbeat from her, but her pupils were fixed and dilated. The defense says Candace's death was a tragic accident and that the child suffered from a heart condition the two therapists were unaware of before the session. and Nikolaas Tinbergen, a famous Dutch ethologist who believed that coercive restraint and forced eye contact could cure autism though there was no evidence supporting this claim. Attachment Therapy on Trial: The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker. followed up on some clues in the official record and eventually learned Candaces previous identity. The nursing board in North Carolina permitted her to keep her registered nursing license, though state law sees a guilty plea to child abuse as sufficient cause to revoke it. Denigration of the boys birth mother was a common theme. [Photo: Rocky Mountain News]. : Colorado Attachment Therapist Ken Magid, LCSW, interviews Beth Thomas, the adopted daughter of, . I'm supposed to go right here? Right here? Beth may be the only survivor known to speak favorably of Attachment Therapy/Parenting. Charged with reckless child abuse resulting in death, Watkins and Ponder could face up to 48 years in prison if convicted. Ponder: Candace? The fatal session, and many hours of more typical AT holding sessions, had been videotaped as a matter of course by Watkins. Candace Newmaker died during a therapy session in 2000. If you are forced to sit in somebody's lap, that's perhaps the last thing that will make you feel loved by that person., of a person who experienced Holding Therapy, from the age of 11 to 13, every week for two years. Despite this association with Watkins, Thomas continues to be a leading proponent of Attachment Therapy parenting methods. This is typical of Attachment Therapy which believes children should be told as little as possible about future plans and events. When it failed to produce results, Welch taught that it could create emotional attachment. an installation about Candace Newmaker, a 10 year old girl who was killed in 2000 during a 70-minute long "rebirthing therapy" session, where was wrapped completely in a blanket and pillows, intended to replicate the birth canal, and pushed on by 5 adults while they told her to "fight her way out". They are presented here for research and educational purposes. OK, I'm dying. He uses stop-frame videos to show where and what kind of birth traumas are stored in the body. It felt tight because her stomach was all around you.. I can't do it. 11:26 -- I can't do it. Psychodrama is not considered appropriate for children age 16 and under, but it is unlikely that this would be considered appropriate for anyone. Feinberg, in showing the boy whos the boss, tickles the boy relentlessly while ordering him to try to get up. The AT parenting technique of strong sitting (also known as power sitting) was in observance. A Change of Habit (1969)COMMENTARY: This is the only scene from Elvis Presleys last movie, A Change of Habit, with Mary Tyler Moore we can find, alas without the audio. Candace Newmaker appears as a slight and pale-faced girl, with her blue eyes wary as they catch the camera which had been set up by the therapists, Julie Ponder, 40, and Connell Jane Watkins,. Let Audible help you discover new ways to laugh, be inspired, or be entertained. A local court granted DSSs motion and Elmore was never to see Candace alive again.Adoption in North Carolina, as in many other states, is deliberately shrouded in official secrecy. (Attachment Therapists typically claim that this does not constitute coercive restraint.) One even pointed out that it also appeared to violate the Nuremburg Code on Permissible Medical Experimentation, the standard used at the trial of Nazi doctors after World War II.During the last week of the trial, Colorado Gov. The convictions came almost a year to the day after a video camera recorded the four Colorado therapists killing Candace, while Jeane Newmaker, a pediatric nurse practitioner from Durham, NC, watched. Not for the faint of heart. Today jurors saw that Candace's session went tragically wrong as the 70-minute video showed the girl pleading with Watkins and Ponder to let her out of the blanket. These reporters bore the sad tidings to Elmoreand opened up all of Candaces story to the rest of us. The Candace Newmaker case is a truly heartbreaking event that occurred in 2000 involving a 10-year-old girl named Candace Tiara Elmore. That's all I can really say. They were practising a form of quackery known as "rebirthing" to treat a non-existent condition called "attachment disorder". Numerous times, Watkins and others required this naturally energetic 10-year-old to sit absolutely motionless for 10, 20, and 30 minutes at a time. Ponder: Go ahead and die right now. The treatment, during which Candace was suffocated, included a rebirthing script. Running was not the smart thing to do, but it was not the act of an uncaring mother, either.At length, DSS decided to terminate the Elmores parental rights. As the sheet is pulled tightly around her, and tied at the top and bottom, she instructs Candace on what to do next. )The rebirthing was an attempt to regress unattached Candace back to the time of her birth by re-inflicting the physical distress of the birth process. No copyright infringement intended. These reporters bore the sad tidings to Elmoreand opened up all of Candaces story to the rest of us.June 6, 2008: Connell Watkins (aka C. J. 23:22 -- Help! Note that the boys right arm is pinned behind Feinbergs back, while the other arm is restrained by the therapist or his assistant, Margaret Meineke. Not fo. I gotta poop. I'm waiting for you, to love you and hold you. Legislative efforts to ban coercive restraint as therapy in Utah have failed repeatedly despite the full backing of mental health professional organizations in that state. Where am I supposed to come out? It's hot. For just over 70 minutes, Candace Newmaker struggled as she was slowly smothered to death. Together, they are seen pressing the pillows down on Candace, as Watkins tells her to try and get out. For real. See the webography for some of the extensive news coverage of the case. Ponder: You thought you were gonna die in there? Holding Therapy in Eastern EuropeJirina Prekop, TherapistCOMMENTARY: This clip begins showing Jirina Prekop (Prekopova), a popular proponent of Holding Therapy in the Czech Republic. However, he said he couldnt take on another case, and instead referred Newmaker to Watkins in Colorado.Candaces treatment by Watkins was part of a two-week intensive, common to many AT programs, in which children live apart from their parents and with therapeutic foster parents (TFPs). Candace Tiara Elmore, later renamed to Candace Elizabeth Newmaker by her foster mother Jeane Newmaked was taken to "reattachment therapy" to hopefully "attach" to her new foster mother because she was "unruly" and fought with the other kids. 00:00 -- Therapist Julie Ponder tells Candace to lie down on the navy blue flannel sheet and get into the fetal position. In September 2009 he was placed on two years of probation by the Colorado Social Work Examiners Board. Such session were known to last for hours. She vomited and defecated inside the sheet, and ultimately asphyxiated, likely a full 20 minutes before Watkins unwrapped her, as the last minutes of the video show no sound coming from her. Psychologist Robert Zaslow, an early proponent of Rage Reduction, was a consultant for this scene. Ponder: She gets to be stuck in her own puke and poop. Nancy Thomas became the leading proponent of Attachment Therapy parenting methods. During her treatment in Colorado, Candace was repeatedly directed to deny her abusive, uncaring birth mother and accept Jeane instead. Original text material copyright 2003-2020 Advocates for Children in Therapy, Inc. WRITE USvar _rwObsfuscatedHref0 = "mai";var _rwObsfuscatedHref1 = "lto";var _rwObsfuscatedHref2 = ":ch";var _rwObsfuscatedHref3 = "ild";var _rwObsfuscatedHref4 = "ren";var _rwObsfuscatedHref5 = "int";var _rwObsfuscatedHref6 = "her";var _rwObsfuscatedHref7 = "apy";var _rwObsfuscatedHref8 = "@gm";var _rwObsfuscatedHref9 = "ail";var _rwObsfuscatedHref10 = ".co";var _rwObsfuscatedHref11 = "m";var _rwObsfuscatedHref = _rwObsfuscatedHref0+_rwObsfuscatedHref1+_rwObsfuscatedHref2+_rwObsfuscatedHref3+_rwObsfuscatedHref4+_rwObsfuscatedHref5+_rwObsfuscatedHref6+_rwObsfuscatedHref7+_rwObsfuscatedHref8+_rwObsfuscatedHref9+_rwObsfuscatedHref10+_rwObsfuscatedHref11; document.getElementById('rw_email_contact').href = _rwObsfuscatedHref; Two Attachment Therapists in Colorado were found guilty by a jury of reckless child-abuse resulting in the death of 10-year-old adoptee Candace Newmaker during a rebirthing session. Attachment Therapist Neil Feinberg, LCSW, demonstrates methods used in the Centers two-week intensive. This training video set the standard for Attachment Therapy for years to come. Watkins: Stay in there with the poop and vomit. A therapist in Colorado, 1,000 miles from her North Carolina home, specialized in a form of re-attachment therapy known as rebirthing, a treatment for reactive attachment disorder. During the session, Candace was supposed to force her way out of a blanket, becoming "reborn" to form a bond with her adoptive mother. Next, check out these haunting photos of people just before they died. Help me please. , some 40 children in this program are still subjected to Holding Therapy. CANDACE NEWMAKER: MURDERED DURING THERAPY. I'm sorry. The parents in this clip use a somewhat less violent form of coercive prone restraint for enforcing discipline than what Federici advises in his book. A 10 year old girl would be put into attachment therapy to help connect her with her new parents, but was carelessly killed during a 70-minute rebirthing ceremony. It appears the child actress became genuinely distressed by the coercive restraint. 40:01: No. The late Larry Van Bloem, LCSW, is shown elbowing a restrained boy in the ribs and abdomen. Connell Watkins and her assistant were charged with reckless child abuse resulting in death, and sentenced to 16 years in prison. 11:40 -- Quit pushing on me. She had spent months trying to bond with the seven-year-old but to no avail. No one wants to hear this, but children as young as four regularly attempt or kill family pets then threaten to kill thosze [sic] who object. Candace was discovered blue and lifeless. Welch, the author of the book Holding Time, sits in the background, supervising the mother in a style of Attachment Therapy commonly called Compression Therapy. This position, with the adult lying on top of the child, can pose numerous problems for the child, not least of which is the pressure put on the childs abdomen which can restrict respiration. I cant do it. I can't do it! She is already referred to in one AT book as C. This clip is of a group hold of autistic children at the Mothering Center in Britain. , RAD is characterized by a child being either very withdrawn or overly friendly with unfamiliar people. Many viewing them were moved to tears by the treatment Candace received. The movie would have us believe that Presleys character could cure autism with one session of Rage Reduction, as Attachment Therapy was called then. Nancy Thomas, Terry Levy, Michael Orlans, and Foster Cline also worked at ACE and trained many other therapists from around the country in these techniques.Attachment Therapy (1993)Neil Feinberg, LCSWAttachment Center at Evergreen COMMENTARY: This is another clip from the Attachment Therapy training tape made the Attachment Center at Evergreen (now the Institute for Attachment and Child Development), with Attachment Therapist Neil Feinberg. YouTube A still from the video, showing Watkins and her assistants lying on top of Candace Newmaker. Please. At the end of the session, the therapists unwrapped Candace and found her not breathing. Two Attachment Therapists in Colorado were found guilty by a jury of reckless child-abuse resulting in the death of 10-year-old adoptee Candace Newmaker during a "rebirthing" session. This clip is of a group hold of autistic children at the Mothering Center in Britain. (At the time of Candaces death, Nancy Thomas worked as an associate in Connell Watkins & Associates. Your email address will not be published. Today jurors saw that Candace's session went tragically wrong as the 70-minute video showed the girl pleading with Watkins and Ponder to let her out of the blanket. Her teachers, neighbors, and even a catechism teacher, saw none of the problems reported by Jeane Newmaker. (Unless otherwise indicated, the comments are from Candace Newmaker.). Watkins: It's not always easy to live. She needs more pressure over here so she can't. Also standard is firing the child from therapy on the 5th day of the two-week intensive. Lien casually chews gum, perhaps impart to the boy his indifference and that it is the child, and the child alone, who bears all responsibility for the familys problems. She can experience love, juror Jim Ball told Candaces grandparents.The two therapists, who operated out of Watkins Evergreen, Colorado, home, labelled their treatment of Candace as rebirthing, though it was in reality just a script to be used in a holding session typical of Attachment Therapy (AT). Please. When Candace died, Angela Elmore was not to be told by the state of her daughters demise. The fatal session, and many hours of more typical AT holding sessions, had been videotaped as a matter of course by Watkins. it is always assumed by the Attachment Therapist that adopted children harbor a killing rage since infancy and think often about killing their mothers. Prekop lectures extensively in Latin America and Europe. Whos sitting on me? she asked. Candace Newmaker was later pronounced dead from asphyxiation at a local hospital. I cant do it. Somebody's sitting on top of me. )A rural teenage mother, with little education, no job skills and a neer-do-well husband, Elmore had run afoul of the North Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) for allegedly neglecting the welfare of Candace and her two other children. Federici has worked to keep clips from this show being available online. It was filmed at the Cascade Family Center in Utah and demonstrates several styles of Attachment Therapy: Holding Therapy (child in lap with its arm pinned behind the womans back), Compression Therapy (woman lying on top of child), and wrapping. According to Jeane, Candace was "unruly" with her and destroyed objects as well as fought other children. Note: The following account has been prepared from press reports, personal interviews, trial transcripts, and other public records. I can't do it. . Ponder: So imagine yourself as a teeny little baby inside your mother's womb and what it felt like. The other two people who had held the pillows in the video were given 10 years probation for criminally negligent child abuse and sentenced to serve 1,000 hours of community service as part of a plea bargain. 10:16 -- Whoever is pushing on my head it's not helping. It is not uncommon for children who do not respond to AT to be left for months or years with the therapist and TFPs after the intensive for ongoing treatment at a cost of $5,000 to $8,750 a month. Reporters for a Denver newspaper, The Rocky Mountain News, followed up on some clues in the official record and eventually learned Candaces previous identity. In the end, the video would prove to be anything but miraculous and would become a key piece of evidence in convicting Connell Watkins and her assistants. It appears that Attachment Therapys insistence on eye contact today may date back to when it was used as an autism treatment. After the holding session, the boy is left alone in a room not knowing what comes next. Nothing less than a gross disregard for a child's life. Connell Watkins, a pioneer in the treatment of Attachment disorder in children, and her associate, Julie Ponder, a marriage and family therapist from California, were convicted after a grueling three-week trial. "I'm dying! .It takes a lot of courage to be born. Every day we'll be together and she'll be with me forever. The last image of Candace shown in the courtroom was of her sitting cross-legged, staring blankly at the camera, her face, though still lovely, showing nothing of the smiling, apparently confident girl seen in her fourth-grade class photo.Two psychologists and a psychotherapist testified for the prosecution that none of the procedures performed on Candace has been shown to be effective. She continues to be a leading proponent of, , a highly authoritarian practice linked to numerous criminal, of severe child abuse. In time her protests got weaker and eventually only labored and irregular breathing could be heard from her. 13:12 -- I need some help. During the rebirthing and in an attempt to simulate the birth canal, the patient is tightly wrapped in a sheet and laid under a pile of pillows, weighed down by the therapist. That's all I can really say. Legislative efforts to ban coercive restraint as therapy in Utah have failed repeatedly despite the full backing of mental health professional organizations in that state. McDaniel: Mama got you this far, now it's up to you. For her role in the fatal session, Candaces adoptive mother, Jeane Newmaker, also faced the lesser charge of negligent child-abuse carrying a possible 4 to 16 years of jail time. 7 years! Note that the boys hand is placed over his abdomen, over which his mother weighs down on him. She said she turned to Watkins as a last resort. She might change her surname to Cooil after finishing her sentence in 2017. - YouTube 0:00 / 9:49 Chapters The Death of Candace Newmaker. She was screamed at just inches away from her face 68 times. This one is horrible. YouTubeA still from the video, showing Watkins and her assistants lying on top of Candace Newmaker. : This is a dramatization of the HBO documentary by the same name (see above). Episode 135: Deadly Therapy - Candace Newmaker 5,563 views Sep 18, 2019 In the second chapter of the series "Deadly Therapy" a young girl who grows up in an unstable home is placed up for. . (Moaning) Quit squishing my legs. Its too dark under here. "Saving Children, Saving Families, Saving Lives Presentation by Forrest R. 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