If you haven’t heard the appalling news about 11-year-old Madeline Neumann’s tragic death of diabetic ketoacidosis last week, you can read about it here in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  The gist of it was that her parents decided to pray over her body instead of take her to a fucking doctor after she had been sick for two weeks and, at ten or so days in, COULD NO LONGER WALK OR TALK.  Madeline was healthy before her episode.  At her death, she was emaciated, as the body eats it own fat to raise insulin levels during diabetic ketoacidosis.

Around the same time, the idiot parents of poor little 15-month-old Ava Worthington of Oregon were indicted in Ava’s death for their attempts to ”faith-heal” the baby of her bronchial pneumonia–which led to a blood infection that could have been treated with antibiotics. 

As the article about Ava notes, laws were passed in the 1990s that struck down legal shields for faith-healers after the deaths of several children whose parents were members of the fundamentalist church.  The Worthingtons were indicted on Friday on manslaughter and criminal mistreatment charges, but it is unclear whether the Neumanns will be charged.  According to a Chicago Tribune report, Wisconsin law says that a parent cannot be accused of abuse or neglect of a child if “in good faith” they selected prayer as a basis of treatment for a disease.  An investigation has begun into whether the Neumanns had a “a good faith belief” that their daughter could be cured through prayer.  

My thought is that if Madeline was FUCKING BEDRIDDEN, there’s no way in hell the parents could have had a good faith belief she would be fine if they lit some candles and said a few Hail Marys.  Fucking assholes.

I believe in God, and I pray.  I pray more when I need or want more, which sucks, but you can bet your sweet ass that I’d be praying to my God, everyone else’s God, the real doctors and the people that play them on TV if my babies were that ill.  If my babies were lethargic and wanted to stay in bed for a few days, and they appeared to be getting thinner, and they just wanted me to hold them, I would probably have a Civil Protection Order against me to stay AWAY from the doctor’s office because I’d been there too many times.  

My son had a five-day fever last year and the doctor’s office staff was probably referring to me as “Norm” from Cheers I had been there so many times.  I’m not saying I drugged him up with everything under the sun, but I wanted a professional medical person overseeing my child and informing me thoroughly so that I could make proper decisions about his care.

My son ended up losing five pounds with that fever and looked so thin that I burst into tears when I put him in the bath at the end of that week.  I called in my husband so I could run out and buy milkshakes. 

What about the Worthingtons and the Neumanns?  I wonder what they’re feeling now.  Milkshakes aren’t going to bring back their beautiful daughters, and I hope all their asses get locked up for so long they forget what ice cream tastes like.  

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What happened to the punishment fitting the crime? Everything is bigger in Texas — go find one hell of an oven.

Man jailed for microwaving baby

A jury in Texas has sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for severely burning his two-month-old daughter in a microwave oven last year.

The jury rejected Joshua Mauldin’s defence that he was insane when he placed his daughter Ana in the oven.

Prosecutors said Mauldin had a history of violence, lying about being mentally ill and was angry about his marriage.

Ana, now aged one, suffered second and third-degree burns to her face and left side and required two skin grafts.

Part of her left ear had to be amputated.

Her foster mother, Heather Croxton, told the court of the painful daily treatments Ana has had to undergo since being left in the microwave for up to 20 seconds.

“There is no excuse for your actions and I hate that one day you will be set free and allowed to move on with your life while Ana continues to pay for your actions,” she said.

Mauldin’s lawyer, Sam Cammack, said his client would not get the treatment he needs for mental illness in prison.

— BBC News

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John Couey, a formally convicted sex offender who abducted a 9 year old girl in Florida in 2005 was sentenced to death today. Couey raped Jessica Lunsford over several days and then buried her alive.
Jessica was found bound by speaker wire and with evidence of a desperate attempt to save her life as two holes were poked in the plastic bags he put her in. Blood from the continous raping was found in Couey’s home — she was buried in his his yard. It has been reported that Couey asked the child to get into the grave he dug for her and that all she asked was if she could take her stuffed animal dolphin with her.

So, I must ask, how can anyone oppose the death penalty in a cases such as these? How??

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The two 13-year-old Oregon boys who were accused of sexual harassment when they acted out a crass, stunt show movie called “Jackass” — which included slapping a few girls buttocks and coppin’ a feel of their breasts — were let off the hook today.

Photos have emerged of the poor, nerdy boys who were probably crapping their pants in worry over a charge that could have ruined their lives. The boys were required to apologize and ante up $250 in damages to the four girls. Charges were dropped because, well, the whole thing was ridiculous.

They were originally charged with felony and misdemeanor sex abuse charges in February. Amid growing public opposition to sending the boys to prison and putting them on a sex offenders’ registry, prosecutors dropped the felony sex abuse charges and added misdemeanor harassment charges, then later dropped all sex abuse charges, leaving only the harassment counts.

The judge dismissed the final charges following negotiations between prosecutors and the defense, and discussions with the four girls about whether they wanted the case dismissed.

Picture of Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, the scary, “felons”

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Being hailed as a saint on one side and a “punisher of thought crimes” on the other, a California judge recently issued a restraining order against self-proclaimed pedophile Jack McClellen ordering him to keep at least 30 feet away from any child or be arrested.

This article names a few people who believe the restraining order violated McClellen’s first amendment rights and assert that until he actually molests a child (or is caught — it wouldn’t surprise me if he already has), that his taking pictures of toddler girls, posting them on his website, and explaining to other pedophiles where to find them and observe little girls (which they refer to as “LGs”) for sexual gratification is all perfectly legal.

As a result, his case has stirred debate, particularly since his arrest on Monday, over whether attempting to restrict unseemly behavior that isn’t criminal violates a person’s constitutional rights.

“There is no law against someone making you feel uncomfortable,” said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and a Loyola Law School professor. “There’s a line to cross and I don’t think he has yet. He’s tiptoeing around the law.”

My question is…what about the rights of a toddler or a child? Don’t they have any privacy rights? Don’t they deserve to be protected from sexual depravity and exploitation?

Why isn’t this behavior illegal??

Why do pedophiles have more rights than small children? What makes a pedophile more important than a baby or child? I just don’t get it.

I mean, why should a 3 year old, or a 4, 5, 6 year old, or any child be aware that there are creepy men that lust after them and if they want to take their picture, put it up on the internet and/or sit next to them and sexually fantasize about them, then they just have to deal. If a man wants to sit underneath a playground set and look up a small child’s skirt, is society obligated to protect that right???

That should be unacceptable to any human being with any decency.

We need law makers to act. Unfortunately, our laws are not adequate for this new internet threat. Our founding fathers could not have had the foresight to imagine a loophole would exist to make the exploitation of children legal.

This is not okay. It should never be okay.

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This story absolutely breaks my heart.

Three Canadian boys, ages 7 - 9 years old, stripped a 6-year-old boy naked and pushed him into a lake where he drowned.

In Canada, nothing can be done to prosecute the boys, since they’re all under 12 — in my opinion a gross injustice. I’m not saying to throw them in maximum security prison, but really, nothing? No punishment at all? They will get away with it and in my opinion, since most bullies have parents that are also bullies, this will be the first of a long string of abuse and violence they will exhibit throughout their lives without proper intervention.

The boy, Adam Keeper, drowned because he didn’t know how to swim. He was only 6 years old and now these bullies will feel no consequences for what they did.

What makes a child so evil? What turns children into cold blooded murderers?

We are well past the days of telling children to simply “suck it up” when teased and tormented by other kids. You cannot “suck it up” when you’re dealing with sociopathic children. Even in America, we need much stiffer laws regarding bullies and the management of bullies. In my opinion, bullies should be removed from their homes as any child of neglect would be as it directly reflects a parents ability to manage and nurture their child. Parents have an obligation to teach their child empathy and to make sure their anger is directed properly. Plus, bullying can manifest itself from other emotional problems the child is suffering, but it is never appropriate to displace those emotional deviancies on other children. I have to wonder if these bullies are not being abused themselves.

Or, are there children that are just born “bad”?

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Where do I even start??

It is bad enough that we have to deal with our own sociopaths, we’re importing them now?

From Fox news:

NEWARK, N.J. — A Peruvian national in the U.S. illegally and who was previously charged with raping a 5-year-old pleaded not guilty Friday in the execution-style slayings of three young college students a day after surrendering to Mayor Cory Booker.

Jose Carranza, 28, who also goes by the alias Jose La Chira, entered his plea before Essex County Superior Court Judge Michael Casale. A second suspect, a 15-year-old boy, has been held pending a detention hearing. Authorities were seeking to have him tried as an adult.

And, can someone tell me why, oh, why, is the rapist of a 5-year-old running around America FREE?!? We’re probably giving him free medical care, food stamps and welfare, too.

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A ticket.

Back in April of 2006, a Chicago suburban mother was charged with murder when she shook her 3 month old baby to death.

She pleaded out and was “punished” with a $500 ticket, 4 years of probation, 2 months of home confinement and free counseling. She had spent 127 days in jail after her arrest, but I have no doubt if this wasn’t an infant and it wasn’t her “possession”, people would be insulted by the lack of humanity in the message this sends. Cases like these send child advocacy back 500 years.

So, why don’t we just extend abortion rights until the end of the first year? What’s the difference? Why bother with the courts even pretending like this is a crime?

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Yamhill countie’s Prosecution, in McMinneville Orgeon ought to be ashamed of themselves — arresting and detaining a frightened 12 year old boy for acting out a stupid TV show, “Jackass” and prosecuting him for crimes that may leave him a felon and registered sex offender as well as putting him behind bars.

Apparently, along with other classmates, they were acting out a game they saw on TV where “Jackass”-es swat girls on the behinds and then they have to swat another person on the behind. The teacher grabbed the child and the child was sent to jail for days without being able to speak to his parents, scared and confused.

From KOMO-TV Seattle:

A judge reunited the seventh-grader with his McMinnville family after six days in custody, where he spent time rooming with a 17-year-old the family’s attorney described in court as a juvenile delinquent.

“I was so scared, I was throwing up the first and second night,” the boy said.

His mom, Tracie Mashburn, said she would have disciplined her son herself had school officials told her about the problem.

“You shouldn’t be doing that, but they should have let us know,” she said. “Had we known … we would have gone to the parents and had him apologize to them. Nobody even gave us a chance to do that.”

Since then, some of the girls have said they felt pressured to tell authorities and school officials what they wanted to hear - that the boys were doing something much worse.

Okay, so we’re talking about Prosecutors going after innocent children, because they’re easier to catch, scare and violate, while in the same exact state, a man who is flashing children, exposing his penis to them, is protected.

If you are as outraged as I am, that we are now going after little boys, instead of properly educating them for a behavior issue that should not have to ruin this child’s life, write the principal of his school today:

Patton Middle School

Jim Torgerson, Principal

JTorgerson@msd.k12.or.us

Phone: 503-565-4502

Or the McMinneville Police Chief, Ron Noble:

ron.noble@ci.mcminnville.or.us

I hope this blows up in Yahmhill Countie’s and Patton Middle School’s face and I hope a civil suit is filed against them.

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I have a suggestion that is a surefire way to get you off the hook when the thought of drawn out days of listening to a plaintiff’s complaint about a landlord neglecting to paint a front door sends you into panic and excuse mode — just be 2! 2 years old that is!

He knows right from wrong.

For instance, if you spill ketchup on the rug, you don’t try to hide the evidence. You fess up right away there’s an “uh-oh” with the “tat-tat,” and you take responsibility by dabbing at the spot with a paper towel.

He’s open-minded.

“Hey, if you give him candy, he’ll go for whatever side you want,” said his mom, Deborah Arrandale.

“He’s pretty laid-back.”

He even knows how to build consensus by repeating a request until everyone understands coffee milk is more desirable than juice.

The only problem is he’s not likely to be a peer to any defendant in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, where he’s been summoned to serve as a trial juror on May 8.

A 2-year-old can’t be charged with the kind of crimes that land a person in Superior Court. Read the rest…

 

 

Picture from www.mestrowestdailynews.com

2 year old Devan R. Arrandale

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