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Concern about the adoption centers arose last fall, when four boys in Pennsauken, N.J., were found to have been systematically starved by their adoptive parents.

A22 NEW YORK/REGION B1-7 Boys Were Malnourished For Years, Review Finds A state investigation has found that the four New Jersey boys who were found severely malnourished last fall had been systematically starved by their adoptive parents, while state child welfare workers failed to make the most basic checks on the children over a dozen years.

The country was horrified last fall when New Jersey officials found four emaciated children -- including a 10-year-old weighing only 28 pounds -- who had been systematically starved by their adoptive parents over a period of years, even though the family was supposed to be under the supervision of caseworkers from the state's child welfare agency.

A state investigation has concluded that four New Jersey boys who were found severely malnourished last fall had been systematically starved by their adoptive parents, while state child welfare workers, in a bewildering series of errors, failed to make the most basic checks on the children over a dozen years.

The crash has also put a renewed focus on New Jersey Transit, an organization some critics say has been "systematically starved" by Christie's cuts and a lack of state transportation funds.

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The police took away Bruce and three other adopted sons, two adopted daughters and a third girl awaiting adoption, and announced that the boys had been systematically starved.

These business borrowers had been systematically starved of credit for four years loans declined from $1.1 trillion in December, 2000 to $870 billion last May.

In that experiment, thirty-six healthyoungng men were systematically starved for six months.

Even so, community colleges are being systematically starved of funds.

But transforming an agricultural economy into an industrial powerhouse meant mass mobilisation of forced labour: 40% of rural homes were destroyed and villagers were relocated to communes beside mines and factories where they were fed, or systematically starved, in collective canteens by all-powerful local cadres ladling watery rice into workers' bowls.

She said a "particularly grave" feature was that they had systematically starved him.

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