Mother gets 30-day sentence for waterboarding baby, putting him in freezer, authorities say
Mother gets 30-day sentence for waterboarding baby, putting him in freezer, authorities say
A mother was given a 30-day jail sentence after prosecutors said she waterboarded her child and placed him in the freezer.
30 days??
I am assuming she is serving those 30 days in a freezer.
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.
Maybe the judge mistakingly put days instead of years
her actions were done as a test to see if the child’s father “gave a f--k at all,”
Because she obviously doesn't...
30 days seems too short.
Must be a typo, surely it's years?
I honestly hate stories like this. What is the use of knowing this? Who does it benefit to hear this story and proliferate it?
So we can all go "wow what a monster" in the comments?
How many things happened today that actually will affect our lives instead?
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.
"If it bleeds, it leads"
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.
Gods. I hope that child gets a better family.
Fortunately, being an infant, it still has a pretty good chance of that.
True. Poor kid will probably also have a life-long fear of drowning though, and won’t know why.
They mean they're going to stick her in a freezer for 30 days, right? Right?!
Ever wake up and see something that makes you hate humanity before you’ve even gotten out of bed? Yeah, that was this for me.
Damn near every day.
That's no mother
I hate this planet.
Imagine being this terrible a person.
And they are always the ones on Facebook talking about what great parents they are.
Ah fuck me man, I absolutely hate reading stuff like that, it ruins my day
F**k’s sake, what is happening to people?
We built a system that rewards sociopaths and then made it mandatory to participate
Nothing. Fucked up shit has always been happening, it's just that you have more opportunity to hear about it now.
I'm a dad and I just wanted to sleep. Thanks...
Jesus Christ wtf, who would do that to their own kid?
She looks every bit as demonic as she acted.
Jesus fuck.
Yeah but baby was coming right for her
Well you see a couple hundred years ago her ancestors were treated poorly so that's why she done this. No other reason at all.