- Children of Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick say she 'neglected' them
- Scathing tribute was published in the Reno Gazette-Journal
- Family said they can now 'live the rest of their lives with the peace'
- Final paragraph called for a 'war' to be declared on child abusers
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When Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick died last month, her children submitted an obituary to their local paper.
But instead of paying respects to their late mother, they exposed her as a serial abuser who subjected them to violence and torture throughout their lives.
The six offspring who have survived her published the scathing tribute in the Reno Gazette-Journal on September 10th, after she passed away at the end of August aged 78.
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Life of torture: The children of Marianne Theresa-Johnson Reddick said they were grateful she was dead. She died on August 30, 2013 (not September 20 as stated in the published piece)
Her family said they can now 'live the rest of their lives with the peace' and called for a 'war' against child abusers in the United States.
The submission read: 'Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick born Jan 4, 1935 and died alone on Aug. 30, 2013.
'She is survived by her 6 of 8 children whom she spent her lifetime torturing in every way possible. While she neglected and abused her small children, she refused to allow anyone else to care or show compassion towards them.
Newspaper: The obituary was published in the Reno Gazette-Journal on September 10 (file picture)
'When they became adults she stalked and tortured anyone they dared to love. Everyone she met, adult or child was tortured by her cruelty and exposure to violence, criminal activity, vulgarity, and hatred of the gentle or kind human spirit.
'On behalf of her children whom she so abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the after-life reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty, and shame that she delivered on her children.
'Her surviving children will now live the rest of their lives with the peace of knowing their nightmare finally has some form of closure.
'Most of us have found peace in helping those who have been exposed to child abuse and hope this message of her final passing can revive our message that abusing children is unforgiveable, shameless, and should not be tolerated in a 'humane society'.
'Our greatest wish now, is to stimulate a national movement that mandates a purposeful and dedicated war against child abuse in the United States of America.'
Lifetime of abuse: The obituary said everyone Johnson-Reddick met was 'tortured by her cruelty and exposure to violence'
Neglect: One of the final paragraph of the obituary reads, 'On behalf of her children whom she so abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life'
A news report on MyNews4.com confirmed the obituary said she died on September 30th but The Washoe County Public Guardian’s office in Nevada has made it clear she died a month earlier.
John F. Maher the Gazette-Journal's publisher said the obituary had been paid for and was sent in through an online self-service portal self-service.
He added: 'We've removed the online listing of this obituary as we
'Once we've completed our review, we'll determine what, if any, further actions are required.'
No one had signed her guest book before the post was taken down.
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UPDATE SETEMBER 12,2013
And This: EXCLUSIVE: 'We sang ding dong the witch is dead when mom died': Brother and sister who wrote vicious public obituary reveal how their mother beat them and ran a brothel from their home
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419429/Patrick-Reddick-wrote-vicious-obituary-abusive-mother-unrepentant.html#ixzz2eoAPBdW9
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- Completely unrepentant, Patrick Reddick, 58, says he can finally breathe easy knowing mother Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, 78, is dead
- Scathing tribute was published in the Reno Gazette-Journal and quickly spread around the world because of the shocking level of vitriol
- Patrick reveals he wrote it with his sister Katherine, 57, a teacher
- Reveal mother would beat them with steel-tipped belt when they were forced to return home from foster homes at weekends
- Their mother also ran a prostitution
business and forced them to sleep on the floor when her clients were at their home - Johnson-Reddick lived her final days alone with her 13 cats in a
trailer park where homes go for $5,000
The son who co-wrote a vicious obituary for his mother that went viral because of its shocking claims of abuse and torture today revealed that he sang ‘ding dong the witch is dead' when he heard about her death.
A completely unrepentant Patrick Reddick, 58, said that he smiled and felt a wave of relief at the news Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, 78, had passed away on August 30.
She terrorized him so much that even when he went to see her a week before she died he insisted doctors sedate her - and wore sunglasses as a disguise in case she woke up.
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Tortured: Patrick Reddick, 58, center with his wife Gayle, said he and his siblings suffered 'terror from the time they were born' at the hands of their mother
They claim that she used to beat all of her family and forced her children to sleep on the floor while she ran a prostitution business around them.
Patrick, from Minden, Nevada, said that all the children suffered ‘terror from the time we were born’.
He hasn't even kept any pictures of his mother because the sight of her makes him anxious and sends his blood pressure through the roof.
Patrick said the obituary was without doubt designed to ‘shame her’.
He said: ‘She thrashed the maternal instinct out of her children and replaced it with the hate she had for us.
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