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Nadya Suleman gives a shocking interview about her life with 14 children.

Octomom Nadya Suleman isn't winning any Mother of the Year awards any time soon.

The woman best known for having octuplets in 2009, in addition to her six other children, has given an interview in the new issue of In Touch Weekly, in which she admits some rather disturbing feelings toward her brood.

Feeling overwhelmed by the burdens of caring for a large family, Suleman not only says she wishes she never had them, but admits to have contemplated suicide.

"I hate the babies, they disgust me," the 36-year-old single mother told the magazine.

She also unleashes some vile words for her older children.

"My older six are animals," she says, "[They are] getting more and more out of control, because I have no time to properly discipline them."

Suleman gave viewers an inside look at her life in a TV special last year. (FOX)

Though it was once her dream to have a big family, Suleman's reality has turned into a nightmare now that she is broke and without hope.

"The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet," she says.

CELEBS WHO RUN THEIR MOUTHS STRAIGHT INTO TROUBLE

Photos accompanying the interview are likely to raise concern with Child Protection Services. In addition to Suleman's house being in run-down condition, one child is seen eating dry-wall.

Suleman says she feels so defeated, she's considered putting an end to it all.

"Some days I have thought about killing myself," she says. "I cannot cope."

Octomom took her eight babies to a local park in May 2009. (Jason Mitchell/BuzzFoto/FilmMagic)

Though she insists she still has love for her children, Suleman looks back on the decisions she's made and says she wishes she never got pregnant in the first place.

"Obviously I love them - but I absolutely wish I had not had them," she says.

Suleman has been vocal about her struggle to support herself and her children. The unemployed mom has been facing foreclosure on her La Hambra, Calif. house since last year, and is currently on welfare.

"My bank account is overdrawn by $300 and I have no money to pay for the children's school, food or the mortgage," she confesses.

However, Suleman may soon get the chance to increase her income. She recently filmed an episode of a new HDNet celebrity dating show called "Celebridate," in which cameras will follow her as three regular people try to win her heart.

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Poverty an invisible issue in GOP race

 

The U.S. poverty rate has risen to 15.1%, its highest level in nearly 20 years.

 

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Roland Martin says new poverty numbers an expression of a recession that started in 2007
• He says of 10 poorest states, most have voted Republican in presidential elections
• Martin says poverty issue should have come up in GOP presidential debates but hasn't
• Martin: GOP agenda fails to face complex issue of poverty; voters in poor states should take heed

 

Editor's note: Roland S. Martin is a syndicated columnist and author of "The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House." He is a commentator for TV One cable network and host/managing editor of its Sunday morning news show, "Washington Watch With Roland Martin."

 

(CNN) -- When the U.S. Census Bureau reported last week that a record number of people were living in poverty, Republicans were quick to attach the figures to President Barack Obama, desperately trying to lay them at his feet.

But anyone with common sense knows that someone doesn't just fall into poverty overnight. The deplorable economic conditions that led to today's poverty numbers began in 2007. Republicans often ignore such facts.

Yet when you start digging deeper into the Census Bureau report, what stands out is that of the 10 poorest states in the country, most are the reddest in the nation -- solidly GOP states.

The most impoverished state is Mississippi, and it's followed by Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, Louisiana, Montana, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama and North Carolina.

Obama won North Carolina by 14,000 votes in 2008, and although West Virginia is considered a Democratic state, in presidential elections it usually goes for the Republican candidate. There is no doubt that in 2012, the GOP expects to lock up all 10 states in the presidential campaign.

Thus it would make sense that the GOP candidates would at least spend some time in the presidential debates debating the issue of poverty in these red states, and explaining what they plan to do about it.

Yeah, right.

At the June 13 CNN debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, the word "poor" was never uttered, and the only time poverty came up was when former Sen. Rick Santorum discussed his work for welfare reform.

At the September 17 debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, Rep. Ron Paul brought up the poor, and that was in the discussion about getting rid of the minimum wage (he thinks it will lead to more jobs) and how he opposes welfare.

During the CNN/Tea Party debate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney managed to speak the word "poor," but that was only when it came to America being an "energy-poor" country.

Republicans will quickly say that their economic agenda is the best way to get people back to work and a job is the best way to get people out of poverty. But it's also true that the poverty issue extends beyond employment -- to education and health care.

Voters in these traditional red states should be demanding that the GOP candidates banking on their votes say and do more than they are doing. Scarcely mentioning the poor or poverty is insufficient.

Maybe part of the problem is the poor don't have lobbyists. There aren't any Super Pacs being formed to raise millions of dollars to demand accountability on the issue. Even right-wing Christian leaders such as Ralph Reed and his Faith and Freedom Coalition are quick to condemn Obama's plan to tax the rich but say nothing about the poorest states in the country, or even demand a poverty plan from the GOP candidates.

If I were a poor person in a red state, my primary issue would be which candidate, including Obama, speaks to my needs. If a candidate spends more time defending tax cuts for the wealthy and saying nothing about the poor, including the growing number of children on the poverty rolls, that candidate would be hard pressed to get my vote.

 

AP Phoito/Chekevdia Family

Richard Chekevdia in 2007 . His mother pleaded guilty on Monday to keeping her son locked inside her mother's house, sometimes in a small crawl space, for two years to hide the boy from his dad.

A desperate mom confessed to locking up her young son like an animal - sometimes stashing him in a tiny crawl space - for two years to hide the boy from his father.

Shannon Wilfong, 32, will pay $1,500 and serve a month in jail for keeping her boy, Richard Chekevdia, now 9, imprisoned in her mother's home near Royalton, Ill., to keep custody of him.

Wilfong and her mother, Diane Dobbs, blacked out the house's windows and cut the boy off from outside world, forcing him to miss school and doctor's appointments, starting in 2007, according to court testimony.

The women only let Richard out at night, and when visitors came, they forced him into a crawl space behind a wall, testimony revealed.

During the case, Wilfong and Dobbs insisted that they were protecting the boy from his abusive father, Wilfong's ex-boyfriend, Michael Chekevdia, a former cop and Illinois National Guard lieutenant colonel

Chekevdia and state welfare officials said he never harmed the boy. Chekevdia was given custody of Richard last year.

Investigators rescued the boy after raiding the home on a tip in September 2009.

Shannon Wilfong, Richard Chekevdia's mother. (Steve Jahnke/AP)

Wilfong pleaded guilty Monday to five misdemeanors, including obstructing a peace officer. She'll also spend two years on probation.

Dobbs also pleaded guilty to obstructing a peace officer and was fined $1,000.

She said her daughter came clean in order to end the trial and pursue visitation rights.

"She wants to start getting a life with her son," Dobbs told the Carbondale Southern Illinoisan newspaper. "We just want Shannon and \[Richard\] reunited."

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DCPI

Police believe Shanel Nadal (right) and Nephra Payne (left) abducted their eight children.

An upper Manhattan couple is on the run after abducting their eight children from a Queens foster care facility, cops said Tuesday.

Shanel Nadal, 28, went to visit her kids - seven boys between 4 and 11 years old, all named Nephra Payne, and an 11-month-old girl named Nefertiti - at the Forestdale agency on 112th St. in Forest Hills about 4 p.m. on Monday, police said.

During the visit, Nadal sneaked the youngsters out of the facility and disappeared, cops said.

Corey King, 31, whose sister Linda Mitchell has fostered five of the boys for the past three years, said he and his sister were devastated.

"These kids were taken away from their parents for domestic abuse," King said. "We are worried for their safety. We are afraid they might get hurt."

King said the children have lived with him and his sister in their St. Albans home for about three years.

"They came to us with emotional scars, but they are good kids," he said. "They just need a good home. They are used to us now."

Investigators believe the children's father, Nephra Payne, 34, was also involved in the abduction. Police said they suspect the family is traveling in a black 1996 Chevrolet Suburban with New York license plate number EXZ5896.

They could also be in a black 2003 Ford sedan or a 1993 black Infiniti.

A spokesman for the Administration for Children's Services said the agency is cooperating with the NYPD but declined to further comment.

Police ask anyone with information on the family's whereabouts to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS.

TOP ROW: Nephra Yahmen Payne, Nephra Umeek Payne, Nephra Shalee Payne, Nephra Rahsul Payne. BOTTOM ROW: Nephra Payne, Nephra John Payne, Nephra Ceo Payne, Nefertiti Payne.