In the case of Valerie Kennedy and her mother, 53-year-old Annie Williams, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

Both are idiots, with a large dose of malice mixed in.

Let’s start with the younger of the two, 32-year-old Valerie Kennedy.

Valerie Kennedy has given birth to 10 children during her lifetime. Four different men had visited that cavernous gaping maw, deposited their seed and left for parts unknown. Two of Valerie Kennedy’s children died at birth, which left 8 children in the care of this she-beast.

Were those two children the lucky ones? Maybe. It depends on your point of view.

Valerie Kennedy liked to abuse her children a little bit, you see.

Here’s 25-year-old Maghen Duvala.

She looks really tired, doesn’t she?

Why do you think she’s so tired?

Could it be because she had a 2-month-old baby girl?

Infants are tiring. They keep you from doing things that you want to do. Like meth.

Here’s 23-year-old Robert Ellingson, Maghen’s boyfriend and her baby’s daddy.

Robert Ellingson had a warrant out for his arrest because of charges of driving with a suspended or revoked license, reckless driving and accidents involving death or personal injury.

He’s obviously a winner in the game of life.

Well, on the 21st of December, 2006, Robert Ellingson came up with the brilliant plan to get more meth by selling Maghen Duvala’s 2-month old baby.

This is 19-year-old Samuel Chamberlain and his paramour, 19-year-old Kankamon Sukchuen.

In June of 2006, Samuel Chamberlain and Kankamon Sukchuen became parents for the first time after discovering the joy of pre-marital sex together.

Being the psychopathic individuals that they are, shortly after the delivery, Samuel Chamberlain and Kankamon Sukchuen also discovered the joy of torturing their newborn baby boy.

Yes, while most mothers are learning how to breastfeed and most fathers are learning to change diapers, this pair was learning how to inflict an obscene amount of damage on a helpless baby.

“Oh crap,” you’re saying.

“What kind of damage did they do to this baby,” you ask?

Well, how about both of the baby’s thigh bones being snapped?

Meet Victoria Klein.

Victoria Klein has had a hard life, the lines of which have been indelibly etched on her face.

As you can imagine, she’s been arrested a number of times. Nothing really bad, just charges dealing with writing bad checks and minor drug charges.

Victoria Klein likes her heroin.

She’s been trying to quit though, most recently living at a rehab center in Jacksonville, Florida, trying to kick the habit.

Her 1-month-old baby was living with her at the rehab center, which makes for a nice Christmas-y scene this time of year.

Yes, it was starting to look a lot like Christmas – until Victoria Klein’s baby was rushed to the emergency room with a skull fracture and in full cardiac arrest on the 10th of December, 2007.

Who to believe, who to believe?

30-year-old Leticia Castro would have you believe that she had no idea that she was 8 months pregnant.

Leticia Castro hopes you trust her story – that on the 29th of September, 2004, as she was riding the Catalina Island ferry back from a Chamber of Commerce dinner with members of her extended family, she passed a blood clot.

According to Leticia, she was feeling a bit woozy and went to the bathroom.

While she was standing at the sink, a six-pound blood clot popped out from between her legs.

After passing this blood clot, Leticia Castro wrapped it up in paper towels and put it in a small plastic bag, which she placed into a trash can before emergency assistance arrived and found Leticia, who was barricaded in a bathroom stall, crying.

At the beginning of the year 2007, Shellay Ward was, according to a social worker, looking quite chubby and happy, even if the girl tended to be locked in her room most of the time, standing at her bedroom window while naked and staring out at a world she would never fully experience.

As you can see from her picture here, Shellay Ward looked like she was in pretty good condition at one point.

As the year progressed, however, Blake Ward and Sharon Ward, Shellay Ward’s parents, for whatever reason, decided to stop feeding their 7-year-old autistic daughter.

Deprived of food, Shellay began to shrink.

So, really, what good is 30-year-old Christopher Cerce doing for the world?

What is the point of his being here, taking up space, breathing our air?

Is it to provide law enforcement with job security? Christopher Cerce not only has a three-page record full of encounters with the police, but has also done 18 months in prison for reckless operation of a motor vehicle and vehicular homicide.

Is it to, through the magic of capitalism, expand his community’s tax base by being employed and spending money with local merchants? Well, since Christopher Cerce is an “unemployed mechanic,” that’s out the window.

Is it to care for his children, the next generation of American citizens? Well, since Christopher Cerce has already killed one, that reason for existence doesn’t really apply either.

How many people can you fit into a one-bedroom apartment?

Tammy Lynn Melton and Emanuel Jones have probably set some kind of record.

They managed to fit both adults, a handicapped, invalid grandmother, and eight children into their northwest Houston apartment.

As you can imagine, the cleanliness of the apartment was below third-world standards. Police were so unimpressed with Tammy Melton’s cleaning habits that they filed a report on the 7th of October, 2007, a report that expressed the officers’ concern with the ants and roaches that roamed freely throughout the apartment. Child Protective Services got wind of the situation through the officer’s reports, but didn’t check out the family until the 16th of October, 2007.