Feb 17, 2011. Home Where Abused Twins Lived A House of Horrors, A Guarded Fortress. What went on in the house was a "family secret'' that was never to be discussed, one of the surviving adoptive children and the couple's biological granddaughter told investigators. Carmen Barahona worked several years for one of Sth Florida's largest medical practices PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATES www.miamiherald.com Court-Appointed Guardian Ad Litem Tried To Stop Twins' Adoption; GAL Grew Gravely Concerned About the Welfare of Children Found Covered in Chemicals www.nbcmiami.com CPS Records www.dcf.state.fl.us Florida Judge Outraged at DCF's Handling of Abuse in Barahona case. A Miami-Dade family court judge lashed out at a state DCF investigator after learning that department officials failed to immediately respond to hints from an 11YO boy that two of his adopted siblings were being abused by their parents. At a hearing Wednesday, a DCF investigator who went out to Carmen + Jorge Barahona's western Miami-Dade County home twice since Feb 10 told Judge Cindy Lederman that the couple's autistic son Jorge may have tried to tell her that something was wrong with 10YO twins Victor + Nubia. The boy's mother dismissed him as being "low-functioning" and told him to wait in the computer room, a DCF official told Judge Lederman at court. "Wouldn't that make you suspicious?" asked Lederman. The investigator responded that one of her conversations with the boy took place very late on a Friday evening. "So ...