Before a legally intoxicated Jennifer Hart drove her wife and at least four of their six adopted children off a cliff in Mendocino County, California, last month, the family had drawn the attention of child welfare authorities in both states after multiple reports that the kids were neglected and malnourished. In the Oregon report, which was released this week to Oregon and Washington media outlets that filed records requests with the Oregon Department of Human Services, two women reported the children were denied food and subjected to harsh punishments, such as being forced to lie on the floor for hours. Young Abigail's transgression, according to the Minnesota report? Jennifer Hart spanked the girl, leaving bruises all over her lower torso, the girl told authorities, adding that Jennifer Hart had also put her hands on her neck and stuck her head under cold water. Eleven days earlier, Abigail alleged, Jennifer had banged her head against the wall after school officials reported Abigail had been digging through the garbage and taking other children's food. Oregon workers were aware of six reports about the Hart family to Minnesota's child welfare agency during a three-month period from November 2010 through January 2011. The state Department of Human Services investigators found there were "some indications of child abuse or neglect," but they were "unable to determine" whether the accusations were legitimate, despite picking up on disturbing, if not prosecutable, signs, the report said. They also appeared lethargic in person, unlike the animated children shown in photos shared on social media. All of the reports were tied to Hannah or Abigail Hart, biological siblings who were adopted in 2006. Here is what we know about each child, and the findings of Minnesota and Oregon authorities, as laid out in the Oregon report: 
 
 Hannah, the hungry 
 
 The 16-year-old is one of two children who remain missing after the crash. Oregon case workers are supposed to interview each child who is alleged to have been abused or neglected, then other important adults in their lives before interviewing the adults who are alleged to have abused them. In December of that year, a Minnesota social worker noticed a dime-sized bruise on her hand, which Hannah said was the result of Jennifer Hart striking her for lying. In January 2011, Minnesota Child Welfare reported her classmates had been giving her food, and when she told a school nurse she had not eaten one day, Jennifer Hart grew angry and called her disrespectful. "Hannah said Jen shoved a banana in her mouth as well as some nuts," the Minnesota report said. When Sarah Hart was asked about concerns with Hannah's diet, she replied, "She's playing the food card; just give her water." The Minnesota social worker said that "after a while, the school stopped calling the parents about the child(ren) taking food because they didn't want the children being disciplined or punished," the report said. The woman said Jen Hart told her that Hannah Hart, the oldest daughter who had been noted to be "very small" and lacking front teeth, was morbidly obese at the time of her adoption. The anonymous tipster said Hannah and her biological brother, Markis, bore the brunt of Jennifer Hart's discipline, but the girl made no mention of previous abuse to the Oregon social worker. In that case, Abigail told investigators her mother had hit her because she had a penny that she claimed she had found but her mothers thought she had stolen it and that she was lying. Minnesota child welfare records show that a social worker said that, four years after the couple adopted their middle daughter, Abigail, the then 6-year-old was the size of a 2-year-old. During the investigation, the Harts had told case workers they believe in naturopathic medicine and would only take the children to a doctor for "serious issues." "The Minnesota Child Welfare worker said the problem is, 'these women (Jen and Sarah Hart) look normal' and they give professionals the information about all the children being adopted because they are high needs, and have mental health issues related to food, then people tend to assign the problems to the children," the report said. The doctor who measured the children reported no causes for concern despite the children's sizes because she didn't have records of their previous sizes. Devonte Hart family crash 89 Gallery: Devonte Hart family crash 
 
 Oregon child welfare workers received their first complaint about the Hart family on July 18, 2013. But Jen Hart told case workers the boy was already "famous nationwide for his 'free hugs.'" At least two women who knew the family told case workers they witnessed the Harts withholding food and harshly punishing the children, and a Minnesota official who investigated the family said the mothers knew how to blame apparent red flags on their adopted children. Although Jen Hart has said publicly that Devonte was shot at during his early childhood, she told the case worker that he had a gun held to his head. He was diagnosed with mood disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and prescribed psychotropic medications, assessments with which his mothers did not agree. "He is reported by his parents to be thriving in home school and very interested in social justice/issues and love. One of the women said that Jen Hart told her that Markis tried to kill her once but that Devonte saved her. Sarah Hart called them on July 22, but said Jen Hart and the children were traveling. On another occasion, the ex-friend said that Markis had gotten into trouble on his birthday, and as punishment, the mothers forbade anyone from wishing him, "Happy birthday." Five of Jennifer and Sarah Hart's six children were so small in 2013 that their weights and heights were not listed on growth charts for children their age, child welfare records released Monday show. Before adoption, Jeremiah had been diagnosed as autistic and the Hart women claimed he was "globally delayed" -- like their other children -- when they gained custody of him. "The couple said Jeremiah could not even use a fork when he came to them, but was functioning normally now," the report said. He was also taking prescribed medications "for a variety of issues" when they adopted him, but no longer needed those, his adopted parents said. When Oregon welfare workers checked on the family in 2013, the kids were ages 8 to 15. One person who alerted authorities said that while the family was staying in her home, the group ordered pizza and each child was only allowed one small piece. Ms. J. Hart then took her children to the bathroom and after coming out, told she and her husband none of her children would be eating breakfast as no one fessed up to eating the pizza," the tipster said. Jennifer Hart then forced all six kids to lie on an air mattress "with sleeping masks on their face and their arms by their side for five hours," she said. Sarah Hart contacted the case worker in June 2014 to say that the family was following Department of Human Services recommendations and having the children seen by a doctor again for a check up. The family embarked on the trip shortly after Washington officials visited their Woodland home to investigate a child-welfare complaint. Devonte had been coming by as often as three times a day, asking for food, neighbor Bruce Dekalb said 
 
 He called Child Protective Services on March 23, and officials arrived just after Jennifer Hart came home, but she didn't answer the door. The next morning, the family was gone. "Without any regular or consistent academic or medical oversight, and unknown child welfare reviews through State of Texas for either foster/adopt subsidies, these children risk falling through the cracks," it said.
– In the wake of the Hart family's death at the bottom of a Northern California cliff comes the release of reports by child-welfare officials in Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington state that the New York Times sees as peppered with "clues" as to what was going on inside the family. Its take: that the documents show a "pair of mothers—one dictatorial and eccentric, the other constantly working and seldom home—who doled out cruel punishments." Some of the details are expansions of already reported allegations; others are new. One of the Minnesota reports states that the school the children attended stopped calling Jennifer Hart (the more assertive parent) and Sarah Hart (a manager at Kohl's) regarding any issues with their kids because they feared the calls would trigger harsh punishment for the children. The Oregon reports include a friend's recollection of an overnight visit the family made to her home during which Jennifer restricted the kids' pizza consumption to one tiny piece. When the leftovers were discovered in the morning to have been eaten, and none of the kids owned up to it, the friend said Jennifer punished the kids by denying them breakfast and making them lie on a bed with their arms by their sides and sleep masks on for as long as five hours, the Oregonian reports. As for the bruising spanking that led to a misdemeanor domestic assault charge for Sarah in Minnesota, CNN reports Sarah allegedly took the fall for Jennifer, who reportedly punished elementary-school-aged Abigail for saying she'd found a penny she had; her mothers accused her of stealing it.