I will not dignify this piece of Jerry Springer trash by calling her a mother.
How the hell does a woman stay with a man who admits to hating her daughter? Did she smile vapidly and trill, “Whatever you say, dear. Can I get you another Pabst Blue Ribbon while you watch the car race?”
My fear is some slick defense attorney will wring his hands, and with weepy eyes wail, “She was abused by her boyfriend! She was in fear for her life! She had nowhere to go!”
Please…those of you who are separated or divorced from your ex, stay in contact with your children. Call them, visit them, see them as often as you can. I’m sure the father had no idea his ex was capable of such an atrocity.
At least this little girl is safe. I heard on a news report she’s already gained six pounds. Psychologically, though…
My god! I read things like this and all I want to do is grab my kids and hug them close and never let them see a world where this kind of thing can happen. How can someone hurt a child–any child–but especially their own child?!
I heard on the news last night that a mother in Massachusetts was arrested for abusing her child in a parking lot somewhere. Apparently they caught her on film just like they did with the mother in Florida a few days ago.
Here’s what I don’t get. If she didn’t want to care for the kid, why the hell did she kidnap(I’m sorry, ‘custodially interfere’) her and move her away?
At least the child is safe, now. Imagine her issues of abandonment… I hope she continues to meet good people along the way - people who will give her a sense of self, and all the love she can handle. I’m glad she’s with her father, not the state. It’s a step in the right direction.
What I don’t understand is why the mother kidnapped her from that NY hospital - why was that woman allowed ANYWHERE near the child, if she was being treated for the “effects of abuse”? Someone slipped big time there.
With the shelter kids who have to be treated for the effects of abuse, we usually have security posted at the door, and no one is let in the room without proper ID (and permission).
I hope she’ll be okay. What a tragic way to start a young life.
She is now back here in Glens Falls and appears to be recovering physically. Emotional recovery from this sort of abuse I imagine would take years, if it’s even possible at all.
The good thing is that she is now back in her hometown and will receive all the hugs that she needs.
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That’s all I have to say. Well, no, not all: I’m glad she’s safe now, and psychological recovery from that kind of abuse can happen, though it’s a long and painful process.
the woman stayed with her boyfriend “because she had no place to go”
What a fucking bullshit excuse. My grandmother picked up and took off with her three children in the middle of the Depression, when they didn’t even have shelters and other aid like there is now, so for this woman to claim she had nowhere to go is just bullshit. I just cannot understand how anyone can allow their child to be treated in such a horrific way.
Thank God that that father took the initiative to go all the way down there and retrieve his daughter (although how he managed to stop himself from committing homicide upon seeing her condition I’ll never know). I can all too easily see how this could have been one of those stories where nobody knows or notices until they find a corpse, if they even find it at all. As horrid as what her mother did to her is, at least she’s still breathing and has a shot at a complete life with a father who literally saved her life. You’re dead on, ivylass, with the comment about staying in touch with distant children and exes. Aside from simply being the right thing to do, it could make all the difference in the world in your child’s life.
It’s odd, but I think that what pisses me off most about this story is the fact that there were two other children in the house being properly cared for. That tells me more than anything that these monsters knew perfectly well what they were supposed to be doing, but simply chose not to. How in the hell is a seven year old supposed to understand that? That her siblings are worthy of love and food, but she somehow isn’t? Fuck, I don’t even understand it and I’m well past seven. Disgusting.
I don’t know if there’s a word for the phenommenon, but over the years I’ve heard of several cases of serious child abuse where there are multiple siblings, and just one is the subject of the depravations.
When I was a teenager I read a Reader’s Digest Book Article called “The Murder of Robbie Wayne, Age 6.” It was about this woman with two sons and a man with one daughter. Her younger son was basically tortured to death by the stephfather. At one point, the family is out eating at a fast food restaurant. A couple nearby noticed the little boy, and how bruised and sad he was, but dismissed it since the rest of the children seemed fine.
The couple was eventually arrested, and it was the testimony of the 10 year old daughter that put both of them in jail.
This stuff just makes me sick and furious. How in the world can you let anyone harm your child? Hell, just the other day I bitched out a guidance counselor at my son’s school for disciplining him without finding out what happened from his teacher!
I noticed the age of the “incubator” was 23. So she had the little girl when she was 16. I wonder how much that had to do with it.
Here’s another story that I heard on my local news this morning. It doesn’t mention it in the article (I have no idea why), but the radio news bit I heard this morning said that the child was developmentally disabled.
One has to wonder how hard of heart these people can be, to slowly starve their own children nearly to death like that. I can’t imagine wishing something like that on my worst enemy, let alone a defenseless child.
And I don’t buy the mother’s excuse in the case in the OP for a second. All she had to do, anytime over those months her daughter was being starved, was go next door and ask the neighbor to call the cops on her boyfriend. And in all that time, she didn’t.
Ugh. I can’t even find words for these people. They’ve reneged on their membership dues in the human race and I honestly can’t think of any punishment that seems “too harsh.” I don’t consider myself the bloodthirsty type, but what can we as a society do besides exterminate them? These people are beneath animals (which love their young). These people are a cancer. I don’t want cancer isolated; I want it eliminated before it spreads.
God, this makes me so angry that I start saying things like, “These people are a cancer.”
I saw Connie Chung’s interview with the dad who went to go get her. He seemed in shock and could not answer any of Connie’s questions in regard to why this happened, did he know it was going on, how could the mother, what was going on in her mind, etc. He kept saying, “I had no idea.” Then Connie ended by asking him if he felt like he could give the little girl a happy healthy life that she deserves, now that he has custody. He smiled and said he certainly hoped so.
I would be personally in favor of a tit-for-tat death penalty.
You strangle your victim? That’s how you die.
You rape until the woman bleeds to death? Ditto.
Knife to the gut and then thrown onto a deserted road? There’s plenty of wide open spaces in Utah.
Fortunately, this little girl is not dead. So, I don’t think they’re going to be facing the death penalty.
I’m waiting for NOW to step in and join the defense attorney about how the “incubator” was abused and feared for her life. After all, she did sneak the child food, so that proves she did love her. :rolleyes:
