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Big family’s house hit with graffiti

The Associated Press
Monday February 18, 2002

SAN RAFAEL — Someone scrawled graffiti on the house and car of the Marin County family accused in the death of an infant and the neglect of 12 other children. 

“Shame. It takes an entire village,” a vandal wrote on the garage door of the family’s home. 

The vandal also used red spray paint to write “murderers” on the side of a black Suburban parked in front of the house where five adults allegedly kept 13 half-starved children until one of the children died. 

“It is horrible when people take this kind of hateful stance,” said Irene Sullivan, who lives next door. 

The five people charged in the case are Winnfred Everett Wright, 45, Carol Louise Bremner, 44, Mary Campbell, 37, Deirdre Hart Wilson, 37, and Kali Polk-Matthews, 20. 

The suspects are accused of involuntary manslaughter for the November death of Wright and Campbell’s 19-month-old son and the alleged neglect of a dozen other children, all fathered by Wright.