Custodial dad gets 3 life sentences in death of 12-year-old daughter (Durant, Oklahoma)

It seems it's been years since this very odd case first broke. And we still don't really know much about what happened.

It is clear that dad ABEL WOLF had custody of his 12-year-old daughter, and we STILL don't have any explanation as to how or why. To the end, the Oklahoma media has maintained a perfect silence on this issue.

Notice a very familiar trope here: The Evil Stepmother Incarnate. I don't doubt that the step was one twisted sister. But notice how these custodial dads always try to sidestep their own personal responsibility by investing in these women near Svengali-like powers. It's all bullsh** really. Wolf wants to us to believe that he's a poor whipped, henpecked sort of felller--and then he beats up somebody in jail. Riiight.

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Updated: 2:52 PM Mar 18, 2011

Abel Wolf gets three life sentences

DURANT, OK - A Bryan County District Judge sentenced 37-year-old Abel Wolf this morning to three 100 year sentences and another five years for child abuse, neglect and moving his 12-year-old daughter's dead body across the country.
Posted: 2:35 PM Mar 18, 2011
Reporter: Jennifer Sanders
Email Address: jennifer.sanders@kxii.com


DURANT, OK - A Bryan County District Judge sentenced 37-year-old Abel Wolf this morning to three 100 year sentences and another five years for child abuse, neglect and moving his 12-year-old daughter's dead body across the country.

A Bryan County District judge is calling a rural home in southern Oklahoma a house of horrors. It's the place where 12-year-old Cheyenne Wolf endured years of abuse and neglect by her stepmother and her own father.

"That little girl went through so much that words can't even describe," said OSBI Director Stan Florence.

Cheyenne suffered from Spina Bifida. Authorities say her stepmother, Denise Wolf abused her for years. She tied her to a bed or chair every night -- sometimes even face down -- and it all happened while her father turned a blind eye.

But one night Abel Wolf said he did check on his daughter after he heard his wife yelling and then heard a loud thud.

"His wife had been beating her and knocked her to the floor. Afterward her motor skills weren't the same, she wasn't acting appropriately. The next day Cheyenne died,"said District Attorney Emily Redman.

That's when they buried Cheyenne's body under a porch in a Bryan County home, but in an effort to escape arrest they dug out her remains and moved them to Montana and then Oregon in Rubbermaid tubs.

"The information began to seep out from Denise Wolf, she began to share information with family members and in turn contacted Ardmore police," said Redman.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, along with several other agencies, spent months investigating the Wolfs and gathered enough evidence to file a litany of charges against the pair.

When the Wolf's were taken into custody, Abel Wolf told detectives he had a weak personality and couldn't stand up to his wife's form of discipline and that's why he let the abuse continue.

But court documents reveal that Wolf beat up another inmate after he learned that inmate was arrested for for abusing a child.

"That child Mr. Wolf didn't know and didn't know the facts of the case, yet he admitted, pleaded guilty, and was convicted for beating up an inmate for harming a child," Redman said.

And now Abel and Denise Wolf will spend the rest of their lives behind bars for committing a horrific crime that prematurely ended Cheyenne Wolf's life. But in all the bad those close to the case say people must not forget about Cheyenne's two sisters, who have to live with what they saw happened for the rest of their lives.

"They experienced that same type of abuse to some extent, and that's something they live with everyday and we would ask the public to keep them in their thoughts and prayers," said Redman.

Custodial dad, step charged in death of daughter; sisters testify (Durant, Oklahoma)

This is one of the more bizarre cases you will ever see.

We've posted on this several times over the past year or so. But I have YET to see a single word of explanation as to how this disabled girl ended up in the custody of dad ABLE WOLF and the step. What happened to the mother? Is she alive? Dead? What?

INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT.

http://newsok.com/sisters-testify-they-saw-cheyenne-wolf-abused-before-she-died./article/3513265

Sisters testify they saw Cheyenne Wolf abused before she died
Additional child abuse charges were lodged against a Bokchito woman accused of carrying a child's remains across the country in plastic tubs.

BY SHEILA STOGSDILL Oklahoman
Published: November 11, 2010

Trial awaits mom in girl's death

DURANT — A Bryan County judge added two counts of child abuse to charges already filed on Denise Wolf after her stepdaughters testified Wednesday they saw her abuse their now-deceased sister.

Wolf, 42, of Bokchito, will go to trial as a result of Wednesday's preliminary hearing. She had been charged in Bryan County with enabling child abuse, child abuse by neglect and unlawful removal of a body.

Cheyenne Wolf, 12, who had spina bifida, wore leg braces and was incontinent, was routinely beaten and tied to a chair and bed by Denise Wolf and after Cheyenne died, her remains were carried across the country in tubs, District Attorney Emily Redman alleges.

Cheyenne Wolf's father, Able Wolf, is charged with enabling child abuse, child abuse by neglect and unlawful removal of a body. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing, Redman said.

The sisters testified during most of the four-hour hearing. Denise Wolf did not testify, Redman said.

Denise and Able Wolf remain in jail in lieu of $1.25 million bail each.

The Oklahoma medical examiner's office and the Umatilla County medical examiner in Oregon ruled the cause and manner of death as unknown.

Redman said Cheyenne's sisters are in the custody of the state Department of Human Services.

SHEILA STOGSDILL, STATE CORRESPONDENT

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