'Tis a sad, sad thing....

[Kei]

[color=royalblue]I was watching GMA this morning when a story came on that shocked me. It said that a woman left her two children, seven and three, alone by themselves to go 3,000 miles across the country to meet a man she met on the Internet. The seven-year-old cared for her little brother, feeding him ad bathing him and such. They only had a bunch of TV dinners and some snacks to eat, and one video tape to watch while she was gone. Fortunately, an observant neighbor happened to see the little girl pulling the blinds shut one day, and his wife heard them crying. They called the ploice to investigate, and found them huddled in the corner of a back room. The mother was arrested when she returned, and the children were placed in foster care.

When I saw that, I got sick. I mean, how the hell can a person just leave thier children at home by themselves, when they're that young? How can someone leave their children period? Any person should know that you're never supposed to do that, especially to meet someone you don't even know. I personally hope she gets a good, long sentence. What are your takes on this?[/color]

[Manic Webb]

Oh. My.

What the hell was running through this woman's mind? You're not supposed to leave a seven and three year old alone when you go to the corner store, let alone 3,000 freaking miles across the darned country to meet some mama-freaking a-hole she met off of the internet!

Can you tell I'm trying to hold back?

That's just disgusting. Not only should she have her children taken away, she should be [b]spayed[/b] so that this can never happen again! I mean, was the woman under the influence of anything when she decided to leave alone two lives for which she is completely responsible for? She makes me sick!

[Red]

[b][color=003399]I think this is sick too, those poor children couldn't have had a clue of what was going on.

The thing is, desperation will lead people to do terrible things. She was probably desperate for some form of partner.
Then again, the man should have known that getting into some form of relationship with this women would include the children, so bringing them along wouldn't have caused any harm.[/b][/color]

[DeathKnight]

[color=crimson]Ohhhh how horrible. Ohhhh my.

Lol. Not.

The problem was taken care of, obviously. The children will get over it. People do crap like this sometimes, and we arent used to it yet? There are alot of 'normal' people in this world, but still there are some desperate type of people who will do anything to achieve the goal at hand.

Personally, i'd rather the police focus on the children that get beaten every night by drunk parents, instead of this sort of thing.[/color]

[Dragon Fou Lu]

Neglect is still a form of Abuse. i doubt that the 3 year old will remember any of this incident ,but why the mother didn't take her children with her is a very confusing matter.anyway i hope those kids get on ok from here on. :)

[Justin]

While I don't mean to understate the severity of the situation in any way, I have to take a stance similiar to Ken's. I mean, horrible as this is, are you [i]really[/i] so surprised?

People=idiots

-Justin

[eleanor]

I agree with Justin, how CAN you be surprised? This kinda thing (or something very closely related) happens probably every day! They probably just decided to post that story just for the heck of posting...it. Um, yeah. I think the lady was either too desperate for someone in her life, TOO absorbed in the internet, and also didn't care much for her kids. And counting that the desperate and internet things are true, I really can't think of any other option that I would choose. Baby-sitter? Yeah, maybe if there some kind of 13-year-old babysitter who's willing to babysit two kids for 4 dollars an hour for that long. Family? Unless her whole family is like that,then, no. Friends...uh....I'm guessing that if her friends are good and not mentally disturbed, they'd try to HELP her, and of her friends are the kind of junkie she is, they'd be too irresposible to help.

[Roxie Faye]

[color=#9933ff]While I am not trying to wave this off as nothing, because it is a big deal, but you people think that's is horrible? Here's a story that will make you sick.

Last week, around Sunday, in Newark, NJ, Police entered a house, after recieving a call. The woman who lived in the house was a go go dancer, and had been struk by a car, and had to be put in the hopsital, so she asked a friend to take care of her children. The friend's boyfriend came over one day, and he heard screams coming from the basement. He went down there to fnd the go-go dancer's children down there. There was a seven year old and a four year old who had been locked down there by the friend who was suppose to be looking after these children. They hadn't been fed for two weeks, but instead, locked down there. Not only that, apparently, the seven year old was a twin, because his brother was found mummified and shoved in a plastic container. The boyfriend called Police, the friend of the mother fled, and the children were rushed to the hospital.

It made me sick to think someone could such a thing to youn children. I felt so awful after hearing that on the news. What kind of sick monster could do such a thing?[/color]

[liamc2]

It really doesn't surprise me at all.

As an FSO (Family Services Officer) my father deals with this kind of thing every day. (Cloricus and Lilac Oranges would know about this)

When he was out at Roma he had to deal with being shot at, armed police escorts, and in some cases he had to run in, with a flakk jacket on, get the child, run out all the while unarmed and under the risk of being shot to death.

There are parents in the world that are completely hopeless and stupid.

My father told us about some of the stuff he's been through, and it was enough to make you flinch. And that isn't even the stuff under the Secrecy/Silence 50 year code act that he had to take out.

And now he's at Maryborough doing the same thing...

[Semjaza]

I don't see how dulling yourself to the ills of society is a [i]good[/i] thing. Children get neglected all the time, it doesn't exactly make it any easier for them to get over it... Regardless of how surprising anyone thinks it is.

[Manic Webb]

There's something about this story that I hate [i]more[/i]. I'm usually a little apathetic (not something I'm proud of) in cases where parents harm their children.

It's cases like this where parents don't even touch their kids, but just ignore their existance that bother me. To me, the one thing worse than beating your child to death is leaving your child to the wolves. When a child dies, it's dead. When a child is ignored like this, a whole grab-bag of possibilities open up, and that's what upsets me.

[Mitch]

[color=red] Some people could care less about their children, or anything else then themselves. This does not surprise me at all. I mean, my cousin's Mom and Dad recently divorced, and her Mom could seemingly care less about my ten year old cousin.

They moved...eh, someplace else. I can't exactly remember. But, I mean, she only moved there to get away from my Grandma, Grampa, and her ex-husband.

Although that's dulled in comparision--just think, my Cousin had lived here in North Dakota her whole life, And she was forced to move. But another thing, my cousin's Mom had been posting, I believe, naked pictures of herself on the 'net and had met a few guys on the 'net this way. She then, one weekend, went out to some other state just to meet this guy. People. Bleh.

But anyways, these things are common. They happen everyday. So there's no reason to be surprised. If you are, you've been way too sheltered from what the real world is. The real world has no mercy, it doesn't care. And some people are just uncaring, they could only and do only care about themselves.[/color]

[Corey]

The woman was obviously not fit to be a mother.

People like that should be sterilized. My personal opinion, of course.

[Syk3]

It's rediculous how irrisponsible parents can sometimes be of their children. Remember that father who let his young daughter sit in a hot car for hours? And you'd think those kind of instances would teach you something about handling your child; they can [b]die[/b].

And this brings up another topic: you can't always be that dependant in real life on someone you met on the internet. Sure, they sound nice, but you don't know what's in their head. *_* No offense to any of you, lol.

...>.>...

In any case, it goes to show how ill-prepared some mothers are for raising children, when the only reason they have them in the first place is because they were "just fooling around."

[Juu]

[color=deeppink] [size=1]It's really sad how children get abused everyday...
It's really sad, and it's aerlly upsetting how very few of these cases are seriously taken.

As far as those children go... I've heard much worse.

Although, one time my cousin and I were at home alone for a weekend, (me, eleven at the time, my cousin, twelve). He nearly set the house on fire while trying to make 'dinner'. We had cereal for the weekend. ^_^;;;;[/color] [/size]

[Duo Maxwell]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Endymion [/i]
[B]It's cases like this where parents don't even touch their kids, but just ignore their existance that bother me. To me, the one thing worse than beating your child to death is leaving your child to the wolves. When a child dies, it's dead. When a child is ignored like this, a whole grab-bag of possibilities open up, and that's what upsets me. [/B][/QUOTE]

That's how I feel about the situation, cause ignoring a child is sometimes worse if not equal to beating them, although sadly I can usually see a reason behind a parent hitting their child because as cute as they are they do get really annoying and bratty.

One of my friends mum would leave them at home with out anyone to look for them just to stay at her boyfriends house for a few days, now my friend was 12 when I met her and when her mum did this (she still does) so you'd think she could look after herself, but she couldn't look after her sister who was a terror and very anoying and she'd usually end up hitting her and yelling at her. Another thing that I think is wrong about her mum is the fact that she smokes dope right in front of them, and she doesn't care what my friend does, she can go drink and smoke dope and stuff and she wouldn't care.

[Transtic Nerve]

I'm not surprised at all this happened. So many people aren't ready to be parents. So many people SHOULDN'T be parents. Oh well, she deserved it. Now she'll live with it the rest of her life, although I'm sure she doesn't care. She didn't seem to when she left to begin with.

[Kei]

[color=royalblue]I know that stuff like this happens on almost a daily basis, as I see it on my local news [i]and[/i] GMA, but what had shocked me was why she left. Like Sky3 said, someone you meet on the Internet isn't someone you can trust right off. It could all be just a front. Take the increasing amount of people being arrested for planning on meeting a minor they'd been talking to. He coud have been a frickin' serial killer, for all she knew. And yet, she still goes off, leaving her seven and three-year-old [i]alone[/i], without telling [i]anyone[/i] about it, to go meet him. It just pissed me off so bad for a certain reason. Child neglect is a crime on the rise in America, and this woman just heightened the statistics. It's just not right.[/color]