# Unbelievable Child Abuse - Too close to home **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169 "2003-09-22T20:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/1 "2003-09-22T20:00:48Z")
I live three or so blocks from the Son of a Bitch did [this](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/22/BA95219.DTL). How the fuck do you do this to your own child? Damn it! ☹ :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/2 "2003-09-22T22:06:29Z")
\*\* Stuffy \*\* don’t try to understand it, that will only make you crazy because there is \*\* never \*\* any reason for it. ☹ Poor baby, at least he will never be hurt again. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/3 "2003-09-22T22:09:21Z")
There was a longer article in this Sundays trib, I tried to find it but I coundn’t. Anyway the fatal beating occurred because the kid couldn’t remember some flash cards. I just wanted to scream, I was so pissed. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/4 "2003-09-22T22:15:22Z")
> [@](#): > > He had his problems, but I never thought in a million years he could do something like this," Thomas said. She said her cousin "_spanked the child like any parent does_, but in terms of torture or anything else that’s being reported, we have no knowledge of that I don’t “spank” MY kids. Why the FUCK would this woman let him beat his baby like that? What the hell was going thru her mind? Good grief he was a BABY!! NO baby needs to be treated like this. That whole family seems to be stupid. What I wouldn’t give for 5 minutes alone with him and a ball bat… (Italics mine) ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/5 "2003-09-22T22:16:10Z")
The guys in prison will have something special for Charlie when they find out that he killed his little boy. I don’t feel bad when I hear about prison stabbings, etc of child abusers/molesters. ---
**Author:** ![Daisy\_Mae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@Daisy\_Mae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daisy_Mae)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/6 "2003-09-22T22:16:30Z")
That poor chlid. I can’t imagine. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/7 "2003-09-22T22:45:25Z")
Was that [this](http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1646937,00.html) article Stuffy? Completely senseless. It is people like this who make me wish we could forcibly sterilize some people. After reading that this morning I gave my own little girl an extra hug. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/8 "2003-09-23T00:56:30Z")
Yeah that’s the one **tanookie** , I usually enjoy reading my Sunday Trib, but after that I was too disgusted to finish it. Just thinking that ass lives a few blocks away… ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/9 "2003-09-23T04:34:19Z")
Beating a THREE YEAR OLD? **TO DEATH?** Brave guy to take on such a formidable opponent. Three year olds are supposed to be playing with blocks or stuffed animals, not memorizing flash cards. He should get first degree murder for this. How could such a small body possibly stand up to the violence of a full grown man? He knew he was endangering the child’s life. I almost don’t care if he didn’t, he should get life himself. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/10 "2003-09-23T05:21:09Z")
This bugs me, too: > [@](#): > > “The thing that’s disturbing here is that (authorities) were called. There were multiple injuries. They’re clearly dealing with a very damaged body … Red flags should’ve gone up,” she said. “That’s what’s so sad: There were multiple opportunities, and those opportunities were not seized to protect that little guy.” When they know what’s going on, and they’ve called the authorities, and no help has come, why don’t people steop in themselves? Maybe one person alone would be afraid to confront the guy, but come on - take a committee over there to deal with the guy. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/11 "2003-09-28T20:13:44Z")
Who in their right mind would beat a 3 year old to death? May the Son of a Bitch rot in prison for that one. May his teeth yellow and rot in his jaw, and loosen, and fall out in his sleep, and lodge in his throat lending his breath the foulness of a thousand skunks. May he live a million years locked up in his cell, petrifying and putrefying until nothing remains but a fossil. May he come back as a toilet in his next life. Sorry for the rant. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/12 "2003-09-28T21:29:31Z")
Oops I hope I didn’t go too far with that one. :o ---
**Author:** ![Palewriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@Palewriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palewriter)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbelievable-child-abuse-too-close-to-home/203169/13 "2003-09-28T21:34:07Z")
> [@](#): > > May the Son of a Bitch rot in prison for that one. I hope he’ll have to do more in prison than that. Perhaps there’s some massive, horny biker dude there he can “spank”.