I'm upset (but not completely shocked) at this line:

"The grandmother said the boy's mother would do anything to keep Trotter out of trouble," he said.

I think I'd have to maim anyone that would severely burn my child. I hope the other prisoners are teaching the boyfriend a lesson about real discipline. :mad:

BTW, NASA to review psychological screening in light of astronaut's arrest in Florida

According to the morning show I listened to, NASA does not have any mental evaluation criteria. Now, they're considering doing it once a year. Fascinating!

Yep! This stood out to me as well. There are so many parents that will put their significant others over the welfare of their children. I have seen so many cases of abuse (neglect, physical and sexual) come through our department where mothers allowed the abuse of their children to continue, just so their men wouldn't leave. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT!!!! :mad:

Police: Dad left toddler outside to freeze to death
 

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POSTED: 2:15 p.m. EST, February 8, 2007

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The father of a young girl who died of exposure had knocked her unconscious because he was angry she wouldn't go to bed, then took her outside in freezing temperatures and left her there, police said before the man's arraignment Thursday.

Nyia Miangel Page, who was about to turn 2, was found dead Sunday on a wooded knoll about a 10 minute walk from the family's home.

Tiny footprints in the snow suggested she had gotten up and wandered around before she died, police said.

read the rest here

Okay, let get all of these sorry azz excuses for "parents" and hang them like they did Sadam. I'm tired of spending all of MY TAX PAYING DOLLARS to feed and medicate these criminals. Sorry ass folks...

I cannot read the rest about that sorry mutha FFFFFA!!!!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

This is incomprehensible. I seriously don't get this at all, but it makes me incredibly sad.

OMG!!!! I should not have read that whole story. I was almost in tears reading it. But you know what, let him go to prison... they will be waiting on him in there. He WILL be somebody's battered wifey!!

HIJACK

That's one of the best parts of the prison system. The inmates have their own form of justice for sick mofo's like him. Maybe someone who's in jail for involuntary vehicular homicide will have no sympathy for a poor excuse of a full grown man putting a 2 year old girl outside in the wintertime. So, I'll pay some taxes to feed the healthy inmates that wail on this poor excuse of a man. Like Chris Rock said, "Whatever happens happens."

/HIJACK

:mad: :mad: :mad: Words don't even describe what needs to be done to that man. I can't understand it. I just can't. :mad: :mad:

I just don't know how or why people are this sick. That poor baby wasn't even two years old.

AfAm baby with unusual eye color
 

That little baby's eyes scared the hell outta me! He is a cutie though.

Premature babyperson going home
 

MSNBC.COM:

In this picture, they are comparing her size to a ballpoint pen. :eek:

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Baby, among tiniest to survive, leaving hospital
Delivered at nearly 22 weeks, infant girl weighed under 10 ounces at birth
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:00 a.m. PT Feb 20, 2007
MIAMI - A premature baby that doctors say spent less time in the womb than any other surviving infant is to be released from a Florida hospital Tuesday.

Amillia Sonja Taylor was just 9½ inches long and weighed less than 10 ounces when she was born Oct. 24. She was delivered 21 weeks and six days after conception. Full-term births come after 37 to 40 weeks.

“We weren’t too optimistic,” Dr. William Smalling said Monday. “But she proved us all wrong.”

Neonatologists who cared for Amillia say she is the first baby known to survive after a gestation period of fewer than 23 weeks. A database run by the University of Iowa’s Department of Pediatrics lists seven babies born at 23 weeks between 1994 and 2003.


Amillia has experienced respiratory problems, a very mild brain hemorrhage and some digestive problems, but none of the health concerns are expected to pose long-term problems, her doctors said.

“We can deal with lungs and things like that but, of course, the brain is the most important,” Dr. Paul Fassbach said Monday. “But her prognosis is excellent.”

Amillia has been in an incubator since birth and has been receiving oxygen. She will continue getting a small amount of oxygen, and her breathing will be monitored once she leaves Baptist Children’s Hospital. She now is between 25 and 26 inches long and weighs 4½ pounds.

“She’s going to be in a normal crib, she’s going to have normal feedings, she’s taking all her feedings from a bottle,” Smalling said.

Amillia is the first child for Eddie and Sonja Taylor of Homestead. She was conceived by in vitro fertilization, which made it possible to pinpoint her exact time in the womb, and was delivered by Caesarean section.



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Good things come in small packages!! Thank God for this miracle baby. I am loving her name.
ETA: When it comes to preemies, the survival rate for Afam Girls is the highest.

we might be some kin! as dark as we are, many of the older men in my family have blue eyes (not THAT blue though).