Felicia Mae Garlin

Initially, I thought Felicia Mae Garlin, daughter of murdered Tammie Garlin, was subjected to the unspeakable torture of being forced to help bury her own mother after she had been strangled to death.

I thought that she suffered as she watched her 11-year-old little brother being mercilessly abused.

It turns out that 15-year-old Felicia Mae Garlin's role in what happened wasn't at all what I assumed.

Today, she was charged as an adult with eight felonies and one misdemeanor, including first-degree intentional homicide.

Here's more.

A 15-year-old girl and three adults were charged Wednesday with murdering the girl's mother, burying her body and torturing the girl's little brother by repeatedly scalding him with hot water.

...Charged with first-degree intentional homicide are Candace Clark, 23; Michael Sisk, 25; Michaela Clerc, 20; and 15-year-old Felicia Mae Garlin. That charge carries a punishment of life in prison.

Bail was set Wednesday at $500,000 for Garlin, $350,000 for Clerc and bail was denied for Clark and Sisk.

An autopsy concluded that Tammie Garlin likely died of strangulation. The complaint, citing statements from some of the defendants, says Tammie Garlin died around June 4 after they repeatedly kicked her and dropped her on her head when they were moving her to the bathroom.

The four then put her body in the trunk of a car and buried her the next day in the backyard, the complaint said.

The complaint said Clark and Sisk were boyfriend and girlfriend and Clerc and Tammie Garlin were lovers for five years. Clerc was angry because she thought Tammie Garlin had cheated on her, the complaint said.

The group — including Clark's three young children and Garlin's son and daughter — had lived in Florida, Maine, Tennessee, Kentucky and Colorado over the past year and recently moved to Wisconsin to "see snow," the complaint said.

The four also face charges for hiding Tammie Garlin's body and the abuse of the 11-year-old boy. The boy told authorities he was repeatedly burned with hot water by the four, including by sister Felicia, who laughed as she burned him, the complaint said.

The boy said the four would tie his hands behind his back and his legs together and then put him in the bathtub where they would run scalding hot water over him, the complaint said. During such occasions, they would threaten to drown him.

His sister, Clark and Sisk also strangled him multiple times, and punched and kicked him in the stomach and face, the boy told authorities.

The boy also said he was whipped almost daily with a belt and extension cords, and typically forced to get naked and locked in a closet in his sister's bedroom, where he slept.

This is really nauseating.

I don't understand how people can be so conscienceless.

How can they have a soul and yet be capable of committing such acts?

And Felicia Mae Garlin, why did she do what she allegedly did?

How could she?

How could she allegedly take part in her mother's murder and her brother's torture?

I can't begin to comprehend this. It's inhuman. It really is.

Pure evil.