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Disabled girl, 13, dies neglected
These animals should be beaten to death.
The smack is in reference to the post not taking the first time and my having to reply to nothing. It does not refer to the message.
The truly sick thing is that there are people out there who’ll be more upset about the dead dog than the dead girl.
Does anyone else besides me notice the similarity in the way that these people look as in they all seem to have that “white trash/redneck” vibe/thing/attitude going on?
That whole, "Fuck you, I don’t give a damn about nothin’ ‘cept myself and my guns and my chewin’ tobacco and my Nascar races on the talkin’ picture box.’
Calling them scum is demeaning to scum.
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And I don’t think these people consider themselves evil----that mom who didn’t check on her child for days had shifted her responsibility and her child is dead. How do you go days without seeing your child?
Clubbing them to death would be too good. Torture’d be more like it.
Oh dear, dear Rhiannon. What a shitful way to die.
But perhaps there is a lesson here for all of us. Let us not EVER assume that just because someone has ‘family’ that they are being taken care of. The raising of a child is a community effort, and especially so in the case of a disabled kid. It’s easy for all of us to point the finger at the mother and boyfriend here, (and I am not for ONE SECOND absolving them from any guilt), but how come nobody else noticed her absence?
There are people in every community who are alone and who die without anybody knowing. This is especially true for older people, and the rest of us just turn away and say, “Well, she wasn’t MY mother”, or “He was a strange old coot, but he had nieces and nephews around somewhere…they should have been looking after him”. Fuck that folks…it is everybodys fault when a person dies and nobody seems to notice until the body has started to smell bad.
Sure, Rhiannon had a mum and a sort-of dad who were meant to be looking after her. They didn’t. Then it should have been up to the rest of us to step in. We didn’t. Rhiannon’s death is on ALL of our consciences.
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How come? Since exposure is no longer a viable method of dealing with disabled children I think it is safe to assume that most disabled children are receiving some sort of care from their families.
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Yes, it is very easy because the mother and the boyfriend were the ones responsible. This kid had cerebal and was bed ridden so we’re not talking about someone who seems to get out a lot to begin with. Although the article did mention that within the last 2-3 weeks a neighbor saw the mother pushing the girl down the street in her wheelchair.
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How is it everyone’s fault?
It isn’t on my conscience. I’m not a heartless SOB who doesn’t care about other people. I can look at the situation and empathize, sympathize, and even get angry at my fellow human beings. However I refuse to feel guilt for something that I had no control over.
Marc
Yes **Marc ** it IS easy to not notice. That is my point!
“Let us not EVER assume that just because someone has ‘family’ that they are being taken care of.”
You’re right. But, one also cannot assume that they don’t. In the case of Rhiannon, yes it’s easy not to notice, but it’s also easy to assume that people like her GET taken care of somehow.
Then again, assumption is the mother of all fuck ups. Heh
Not disagreeing with you, mostly because I don’t know what you mean by “exposure”. Please elaborate.
Actually, the truly sick thing is that a little girl was terribly neglected by the people who were supposed to care for her.
A truly annoying thing is when people assume that anyone who cares for animal rights doesn’t care about humans. Loving animals doesn’t equal not caring about humans, and vice versa.
Well, if you want to split hairs…Maybe Rhiannon liked the dog a whole lot. Maybe the dog died before she did (probably, if s/he was “skeletal” when found), and her concerned inquiries were brushed off. So the dog’s death was her loss, as well as “everyone’s”.
God, that’s depressing.
I believe they meant the American Indian practice (and other cultures, too, maybe) of leaving a disabled child or old person out in the elements, to die from exposure.
As to the OP, this just makes my heart hurt.
Does anyone else find it really disturbing that the boyfriend’s bail was set at $100,000 dollars for “concealing death,” yet the mother’s bail was only $88,000 for a much more serious crime? What the fuck is up with that?
Both of them deserve to be tortured for what they did. It’s sick sick sick…And how is it the neighbor’s didn’t suspect anything with the SKELETAL REMAINS OF A DOG in the front yard (the report doesn’t say it was burried, so that makes me even more concerned with the whole situation). Aren’t neighbors supposed to watch out for one another, and the community? WTF?
I’d like to second MGibson’s request for an elaboration on this point.
Like hell it is. It’s a tragedy, but the responsibility rests squarely on the shoulders of those two idiots who bore and then neglected her. I raise my children with love and dedication; why should I accept even a fraction of the onus for those who apparently can’t be bothered to do the same?
You may be right. Perhaps neighbors or relative or family friends were suspicious and did nothing. But right now we have no evidence of that.
I am definately an advocate for stepping in to help the helpless. Report abuse, offer help, check on the elderly, sneak into yards to feed dogs if it’s what needs to be done. But by the standards you are setting out for us, we must also peer in the windows of our neighbors, or knock on the doors of virtual strangers to interrogate them on their relatives’ whereabouts.
As far as the dog’s remains, the body may have been concealed from view by brush or trees. Or were the neighbors at fault for not sneaking into the yard to search it at night?
That is sickening. I hope the mother and her boyfriend spend the rest of their lives in prison for this. I wish things other than life in prison upon them, but I beleive that the Bill of Rights protects from cruel and unusual punishment, and that they should not be tortured because of that. Now that I’ve said that, and I know this makes me a hipocrite (and I’m pretty sure that that’s not the correct spelling), I hope that some unpleasant things happen to both of them in prison.