Re: Texas woman kills baby by cutting off her arms
 

Evil. Binch. Rot. In. Hell.
:mad:

Man...

I actually heard the 911 call. She was talking to the dispatcher like she just sliced a sandwich instead of her child. Completely calm...



You know...they test for everything else to determine mental competency, why not do it if you want children?


:mad: :mad: :mad:

Mom pleads guilty to locking son in trunk during party

Wednesday, November 24, 2004 Posted: 1:35 PM EST (1835 GMT)

SAN DIEGO, California (AP) -- A mother who left her 7-year-old son locked in the trunk of a car while she partied in a bar has pleaded guilty to child abuse and false imprisonment.

Sarah Powell, 27, and her boyfriend, Jake Faria, 30, entered their pleas Monday as part of a plea bargain.

The charges carry maximum prison terms of up to six years, but the couple are likely to be sentenced to probation at a January 5 hearing with credit for time served, according to San Diego Superior Court Judge Browder Willis.

Read the rest here

Asbury Park Man Is Arrested in His Son's Starvation Death
 

Asbury Park Man Is Arrested in His Son's Starvation Death
By JASON GEORGE

Published: November 27, 2004

An Asbury Park man wanted in the starvation death of his 14-month-old son was arrested yesterday on charges of manslaughter and child endangerment.

Police officers had been looking for the man, Wesley White, 26, since Monday, when the mother of the boy was arrested on the same charges. Mr. White and the mother, Tahija Handberry, 22, have two other children, now in foster care. The parents are each being held in the Monmouth County Jail in $200,000 bail.

Mr. White was apprehended about 8:30 a.m. yesterday at a house in Freehold, 20 miles west of Asbury Park, Sgt. Mark Wodell of the Freehold Borough Police Department said. An anonymous 911 call led the Freehold police to the house, where Mr. White was arrested in the kitchen without a struggle, Sergeant Wodell said.

The boy, Jmeir White, who was the middle of the couple's three children, weighed 10.4 pounds when he died of chronic malnutrition at Ms. Handberry's Asbury Park apartment on Aug. 22, according to John Kaye, the county prosecutor. A caseworker from the state's child welfare agency had visited the home in June and noted Jmeir's small size but accepted the mother's explanation that all her children were small because she is a dwarf.

Rest of story

I posted the mother's arrest last week. The Star-Ledger issued a damning editorial on this case in today's issue.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...a_umbilical_dc


Doting South Korean parents can preserve their child's umbilical cord in acrylic resin to make a personal seal or even have it gold plated.


In this Confucian society where family values are highly prized, suppliers also offer services for parents to have traditional Korean calligraphy brushes made from their child's hair.


Shim Jae-cheol of U&I Impression said the firm had gold-plated about 80 to 100 umbilical cords a month since starting business in August, with prices ranging from 80,000 won to 100,000 won ($76 to $96). It also offers mail order.


South Korean law allows parents to keep the umbilical cord of their children, although sales to a third party would be illegal.




uuuuummmmmmmmmm NO THANKS. I'll just keep their baby bracelet.

I kinda like that idea...you know kinda like keeping your baby teeth around.

This.Is.Nasty.

I'm with CT4, I just keep the baby bracelet. I still have my son's and the little id card that was on his crib in the hospital nursery.

:eek:

Tanya, noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

Grandma Indicted In Death Of Toddler Left In Burning Vehicle (WTF?)
 

Grandma Indicted In Death Of Toddler Left In Burning Vehicle

POSTED: 8:44 am EST December 1, 2004
UPDATED: 11:59 am EST December 1, 2004

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. -- A woman who left her 22-month-old grandson inside a burning vehicle after it ran off the road last year was indicted Tuesday on aggravated manslaughter and child endangerment charges.

Burlington County prosecutors said Pamela Dreadin, 43, of Mount Laurel was driving a Ford Bronco truck in a rural section of Eastampton Township shortly before 3 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2003, when the vehicle became stuck after she tried to make a turn. After Dreadin tried several times to free the vehicle, a fire started in the engine compartment.

Dreadin left the truck and went to a nearby house to call for help but did not mention that her grandson, Michael Malinowski Jr., was in the vehicle until 10 minutes later when a police officer arrived, authorities said.

By the time rescue crews arrived, flames had engulfed the vehicle, killing the child.

Dreadin, who initially was charged only with child endangerment, remains free on $5,000 bail. She could face up to 30 years in state prison if convicted on both charges.

Cat awarded MBA degree
 

Re: Cat awarded MBA degree
 

*raises hand*

That story is from Pennsylvania, my home state. The attorney general was trying to close down Trinity Southern University. Apparently, this university, a cell phone company, and the two people who ran the school were using inappropriately using Internet addresses of the state Senate and more than 60 Pennsylvania businesses to sell fake degrees and prescription drugs by spam e-mail.

Some of the victims included: the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State University. :(

The attorney general bought the degree for $299, in the name of a deputy attorney general's cat.

I am glad that we are trying to get these people off the street.

Re: Cat awarded MBA degree
 

See these online degrees make me nervous. *thinking about getting my cat a J.D.*

Re: Cat awarded MBA degree
 

A cat with an MBA? Talk about a corporate fat cat... ;)

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/3980426/detail.html


Parents Go On Strike, Move Out To Protest Messy Kids


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My mother sent this to me. Knowing my mother the way I do, she would have put me out before she slept in a tent.
:o :o :o But I don't blame her.

I hate that the law and a clinical psychologist got involved. I think they underestimate the need for the children to be praised by the parents. I think it will do them all some good.

The 17 y/o should know better. This is a prime example of what happens when you dont set boundaries for your kids. My child is 6 and she cleans her room at LEAST twice a week. Boo on the parents, I mean who is in charge here, them or the kids?

Though I don't agree with the PARENTS leaving, I see thier point. Kids should not be slobs. Then again, kids should not have the OPTION to be slobs. There is NO WAY that a child can refuse to wash dishes, clothes, vacuum, etc. I wish a kid would!!! :mad: :mad:

The law only says they have to get 3 hots and a cot...if they can't take of their priviliges I would take them away. But I wouldn't leave my house.

Can't help with your laundry or pick up after yourself...they would have 2 pairs of pants and 4 shirts each...everything else would be taken away and given to charity.

Can't help with the dishes...clean out the pantry and give em instant oatmeal & some vitamins for every meal.

Take away ALL of their extras (including the computer - they can TYPE their homework like I used to). The playstation, dvd's, allowance, access to cable, cell phone...all gone.

Them kids wouldn't be so disgusting if the parents didn't raise them that way. That 17 year old is about to go to college and become someones worst nightmare as a roommate!

Good job, StarDustTwin!!! I wholeheartedly agree especailly TAKING AWAY ALL EXTRAS!!

I WOOOOOSH I would move out of my own house.:rolleyes:

I mean, who are the adults here? Shouldn't the Barnards put the kids out in the tent, rather than the other way around? Things that make you go hmm....:confused: :rolleyes:

EXACTLY!!! :D

These are the kids that become MY roommates! LOL! I'm in full agreement that the parents have allowed this to happen. Kids only do what you'll let them. So, that's why I have no problem with the parents moving out. Maybe they can use the time to think up a new gameplan.

Shiiiiiiiiii as long as I am paying the mortgage and all other bills, anything that comes out of my uterus will not force me to leave my comfortable surroundings.

A N W I H

I knew I had chores to do growing up, and if they did not get done, my mother was a VERY UNPLEASANT woman to deal with. She saved and everything, but let her carpet not get vacuumed or dishes washed. :o :o :o

My sentiments exactly.

Stardusttwin, we are on the same page. If you can't do what you are supposed to do, I can't continue to finance nothing other than the basics.

Nikki1920, my 5 year old is responsible for keeping his room clean daily. I mean nothing on the floor, under the bed, desk clean. I hang his clothes up only because he can't reach that high. He even tries to make his bed. Of course, I have to go behind him but at least he knows it has to be done.

These things start early and so do the consequenses of not doing them.

smlwonderdst: ^5. I am a semi slob, I'll admit that. But I do make a concerted effort to keep my room clean and to clean up after myself. My child knows that she has to make her bed every day, and she can choose to do it when she wakes up OR when she gets home. She knows that her shoes go in her closet. She knows to put things back where she got them when shes finished with them. Small things like this make for decent college roommates. ha ha! I had a messy one, and I was ready to throw her OUT. I just made certain that my half was super clean. She got the picture. (Embarrassment works too....)

And the key word here is CONSEQUENCES!!!

eta: what is ANWIH? *brain fart*

Ain't No Way In Hayle!!

Sounds to me like the kids won... they drove their parents out. If I'd tried to pull anything like that growing up, it wouldn't have been my parents' butts out on the front lawn... it would have been mine!

<disclaimer>not a mother</disclaimer> Kids have to learn responsibility. Start when they're little, with some simple age-appropriate chores like putting their toys away when they're done playing with them. Work up to bigger chores like setting the table, doing the dishes, putting out the trash. This way, they grow up knowing that they are part of a household and there are things they have to do in order to keep that household running smoothly.

Lisa Whelchel BKA Blair from Facts of Life is on GMA is now a "parenting expert." She was speaking on this parenting incident in Florida. There is also a mother who has a son who is a class clown and she makes him wear a poster board and stand on a street corner with the sandwich board. Tell him to knock it off. I was a class clown. My mother told me to stop. I didn't. She whooped me when it got bad or took away privileges.


:cool:

I'm still trying to get my mind around "Blair" being a parenting expert :eek:

But I feel you, CT4. The "Board" of education applied to the "seat" of knowledge once or twice made me an excellent student in the school of "Act Right." :D

...CT4 a class clown? who'da thunk it?

Tony, leave me be.

Not as much a class clown, but more of one who talked out or tried to get the approval of my classmates :rolleyes: by speaking out or not ACKING right or clowning my teachers.

In first grade, I used to get up in class and dance. :eek: I did not know it then but my mother would come and stand at the classroom door and watch me (she worked nights) and I would get home and get the belt.:o :eek:

When you got home ?!? Man, you were lucky. My mom would have let me finish my dance and then came in that classroom and tore me up. My mom was a big fan of "I clown where you clown".

Smlwonderdst, our mothers must be sisters. My mom's unofficial motto was "where you show your behind, that's where I'll deal with your behind." I knew my dad was crazy, so I never tried him. :D

I was shocked too. I really did not remember this at all! I must have blacked it out of my whooping history. My mom was a big fan of showing out too. Her belief was I can act a fool better than you. :eek:

Lisa Whelchel a parenting expert? i read that she would put hot sauce on her kid's tongue if they acted up. that to me is more torture-like than parenting. especially since i loathe hot sauce.
but that's just me;)

^^
I was looking for an inspirational book for our book club and came across a book on Lisa Whelchel and parenting. She sort of went Kirk Cameron and plunged full-on into faith.

She does that when they curse. She said just one drop. I would rather have hot sauce than soap.

Yes I got my mouth washed out with soap once. But not like Ralphie and having to suck on a bar of soap. :eek:

Just WRONG
 

NEW YORK (AP) - A Bronx doctor who began performing oral sex on a patient while examining his genitals, pleaded guilty Thursday to sexual misconduct, prosecutors said.

As part of a plea agreement, Brian Shaw, 42, of Wilton, Conn., will be sentenced to six years probation and is required to register as a sex offender, said Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson. Sentencing was set for Feb. 2, 2005.

Shaw also surrendered his medical license to the New York State Health Department.

The patient, a 49-year-old truck driver, had gone to the Throggs Neck Urgent Medical Care facility on Dec. 9, 2003, because of a rash on his chest and legs.


During the examination, Shaw began to examine the man's testicles and then performed oral sex on him against his will, Johnson said.


Shaw, a 1993 graduate of Eastern Virginia Medical School, was acquitted of a similar crime in 2002.



12/09/04 20:49


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Re: Just WRONG
 

OH MY DEAR GRACIOUS MERCY SAKES ALIVE!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Re: Re: Just WRONG
 

My sentiments exactly! :o :o :o

At the risk of more attacks, I'm going to say that no one is his right mind would do that! Sounds like a case of possession to me.

See stuff like that is enough to make people not want to go to the doctor. :(