Yeah, reading the article, I expected it to say that it was only 30 days, because they realized, she has psychological problems. Punishment doesn't usually help with that. But I also expected this article to say that the baby will be taken into custody by the state until therapy concedes. And there's just no mention of any of that.
I think it's a cautionary tale against forcing women to have kids.
We need access to birth control, healthcare (including abortion), sex education, and quality education.
These horrible things cannot be hidden, just like war images shouldn't be hidden. This is reality and we can't turn a blind eye. We have to address real shit that happens in the real world to learn from it and get better. Or at least face the reality of the things we force people into.
Authorities said while the officer was taking McDonald to jail, she said that her actions were done as a test to see if the child’s father “gave a f--k at all,” adding she waterboarded her baby to try and make Neal come back to the apartment.
So she decided to extend the toxic relationship she has with her child's father to their child. WTAF?! What an absolute piece of shit person.
I read the article hoping to see that she had lost all rights to the child. But nothing about that was mentioned. So she probably hasn't lost any parental rights.
She's not going to lose all rights that fast. My wife's mom left her alone for days as a toddler drinking toilet water and allowed her to be abused by her johns (no idea if she sold her or was just too fucking high to put a stop to it) and it took years for her to lose all rights. Parents are given a lot of chances to get their shit together even when anyone else would look at them and know that wasn't ever going to happen.
That's why when I hear stories about people getting their kids taken away for playing alone in the back yard or walking up the street, I suspect there's a lot more to those stories. That's a huge amount of effort and they aren't going to do that shit over something so minor. But of course the government is going to be all no comment about those things so we only ever hear the side saying how ridiculous it is. That's right - it's ridiculous. So why would you believe it went down that way?
I dunno. Kids get such a fucking raw deal. They have no choice who they're born to and even lots of well intentioned parents fuck it up, to say nothing of people like this crazy fucking bitch in the article.
That's a great point. It does usually take a long time, doesn't it. Hopefully the media attention will fast-track things in this case. But it probably won't.
WOW, it really sucks that the government is just going to let her murder her child. That's what's going to happen. Kid will definitely be dead within the year because of gross negligence by the criminal justice system.