Rather than penning a touching tribute and brief biography of her mother after she died, Katherine Reddick submitted a brutal obituary of her deceased mother to their local newspaper, according to USA TODAY.
Published in the Reno Gazette-Journal, the obituary for Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, 78, went viral after readers noticed it was not like the rest. After noting her age and date of death, it continues with "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. 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 afterlife 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," her daughter wrote.
Johnson-Reddick died on Aug. 30 in Reno at ManorCare Health Services and her cause of death is unknown. She was previously diagnosed with bladder cancer and became a ward of the state once she was hospitalized in May.
According to an interview with The Associated Press, Patrick Reddick -- one of the six survived siblings -- approved of the obituary before his sister sent it in.
"Everything in there was completely true," he said, calling her as a "wicked, wicked witch." "The main purpose for putting it in there was to bring awareness to the child abuse. And shame her a little bit."
