Grace Packer Was Abused Multiple Times Throughout Her Life: Report

Abington's Grace Packer was abused multiple times in her life before she was killed last July by her adoptive mother and her mother's boyfriend, according to an interview with a lawyer representing Grace's birth parents and published in the Associated Press.

When she was 3, Grace's birth parents reportedly lost custody because other adults were sexually abusing Grace. When she was 9, her adoptive father David Packer was sent to prison for sexually abusing Grace. He has since been classified as a sexually violent predator, the Megan's Law Database states.

The final and fatal assault took place last July, when Sara Packer, 41, and her boyfriend Jacob Sullivan, 44, engaged in a torturous "rape-murder fantasy" in Bucks County, the report states.

The pair, who were charged over the weekend, allegedly kidnapped, raped, poisoned, and eventually strangled Grace before dismembering her body and stashing it in the woods, officials said.

Hunters found Grace's body on Oct. 31 in the woods in Luzerne County.

The lawyer for Grace's birth parents told the Associated Press that her birth parents were good people who simply did not have resources to care for Grace and her siblings.

Authorities said that Sara Packer first came under suspicious when she moved from Abington to Richland without telling police. She also failed to give police a picture of Grace, which they had requested.

A preliminary hearing for Sara Packer and Jacob Sullivan is set for Jan 20.

A memorial service in Grace's honor is planned for Monday, January 16, at 1:30 p.m. in the New Life Church in Glenside. The church is located on 467 N. Easton Road.

To learn more about the memorial fund set up in her name, see the GoFundMe page here.

Image courtesy Bucks County District Attorney