I don’t know why I do it, but I do. I always open these threads, and it fucks up my whole weekend. I can’t get this story out of my head…that little body, curled up in self defense, tear stained cheeks, begging for gramma to stop.
I can’t…bear it.
Damn!
This is beyond the pale. No excuses. Fuck Gramma. Die in screaming agony, you evil old shit!
kambuckta, do some Googling on so called Child Protective Services in the good ol’ USA. They are poorly staffed (read, incompetent whackjobs working along with people actually concerned with child welfare) and too willing to assign blame without evidence. Don’t blame Mom, who was out of the country, for anything she did not do.
CPS (Child Protective Services) seems more concerned with clearing paperwork rather than doing anything right for the kids involved. It’s truly sick what they get away with. And innocent adults and children pay the price. The kids sometimes pay with their lives.
Let me be perfectly clear: I am not blaming the mother here. The only information I have about the case is what was cited in the OP, and it just seemed curious that the children were not reunited with their mum as soon as she returned from service. I would have imagined that she would have been given an immediate clearance, not have to wait for paperwork to be completed…but then I don’t have a clue about how the armed forces operate, so perhaps someone can enlighten me.
The lack of reunion then got me wondering what the circumstances were…and whether the mum might have had some awareness of Grandma’s violent proclivities in the past, which might perhaps explain why the kids haven’t been returned.
And of course, I could be completely off beam. I would be VERY happy to be shown how my doubts/confusions are misguided.
Thanks.
My WAG is that they’re investigating just this to be certain they won’t be handing the children back to another abuser.
Utah still has the firing squad, don’t they? Pity they don’t make state-to-state housecalls…
You never know who the abuser could be and that’s a fact but it’s usually someone pretty close to you. I know of one mother who sent her child from the West Indies to London to get “sorted out” by his auntie living in London. That poor boy suffered unmercilessly at this evil woman’s hands and he had nowhere to go with it. His mum had given full permission for “discipline” and believe me, he got it bigtime. He was 13, withdrawn and terrified to speak out - what chance did he stand?
I knew the perfect couple with 2 kids. He smoked a few spliffs one night, stabbed his baby daughter to death, did a couple of years in the mental ward and now he’s walking around, free as a bird… something wrong somewhere… If he’d fiddled his taxes he’d be doing a fair stretch by now…
Wow! Where can I get some of that? You know, COMPLETE FUCKING INSANITY IN INGESTIBLE FORM.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
There should be like this vigilante guy who goes around killing people like that. For great justice.
I don’t know the drug laws where you are, but what would have happened to him if he’d just been caught with weed, apart from any abuse charges?
This is one of the few times on earth that I’m glad to see fellow dopers go over the top.
Impalement? Drawing and quartering? The rack?
All of these are too good.
Forgive me, but beating a child to death takes so much energy and effort as to make any ordinary human being step back for at least one microsecond and (perhaps) think.
The agony involved blinds my senses utterly. I am confounded.
I’m sorry I made you feel bad, jarbabyj. It was not my intention to do so. The article just made me so mad, and I couldn’t keep it to myself, and this seemed like the place to share it. It seemed like a crime to keep it to myself.
Oh my goodness. That is SO horrible… the poor child. (and her mom and siblings!)
F_X
Sounds like you don’t need it. WTF kind of comment is that? IDIOT!!!
Not much really. We’ve had some changes in the drug laws in the last couple of years. In London there was a trial in one area in that if you were caught with a small amount of weed, you would simply get an on-the-spot fine and have it confiscated and not get a record (so the cop basically nicks your stash! lol). It’s not been legalised yet though and not likely to be for a while, but because the problem has increased here in recent years with much more heroin coming in, it was felt that the authorities should be concentrating on the big drug rings - so basically if I got caught now with a litle bit of weed for personal use I wouldn’t be too bothered.
I think we should have the Amsterdam-type cafes where you can go in, have a coffee and order a spliff at the same time. I haven’t actually been to Amsterdam yet so all of you who have been - maybe you can enlighten us as to how that works exactly? (I hope to have a little hol there soon with my boyfriend). That method seems to work from what I understand.
As you can see, I’m not against smoking weed but I am against all the other drugs around - they’re too risky and addictive and you never know how much they’ve been mixed with some other rubbish.
I see. Thank you.
So much for my defense that weed always makes you mellow…
This is why I don’t believe in god. Because stuff like this happens to innocent, defenseless, blameless children. That poor baby, it breaks my heart. Nobody deserves being beaten to death, except, of course, the evil bitch that did it. Eye for an eye, I say, in these kind of situations. Beaten and whipped to death over imaginary homework? Fucking nasty asshole deserves the exact same ending. . .
That was her daughter’s baby! How could it be that a human being can do such a thing to another person? I’ll never understand.