The death of a parent is a child’s nightmare. No matter how young or old, losing your mother or your father is surely painful. But not for these two who proudly celebrated their mother’s passing and wrote it in an obituary.

Newspaper readers in Reno, Nevada, were taken aback with what they read. Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick recently passed away but her obituary was unusual from the other messages-- her son and daughter revealed how abusive she was as a mother. 

“On behalf of her children, who she 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."

"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. 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.”they further shared in the obituary.

They also shared how their mother regularly ran a prostitution ring inside their house and they were forced to witness everything.

Even on her death bed, she was so harsh towards Patrick that the doctors had to sedate her and Patrick had to wear a disguise to keep her calm. So when she died, Patrick shouted: “Ding dong, the witch is dead!”.

Patrick and Katherine Reddick, along with their other siblings, would be put in a foster care system. The two are determined to raise awareness of child abuse across America.

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