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Posted on 03/14/2014 7:58:10 PM PDT by Morgana

FULL TITLE: Six-year-old girl who froze to death outside Minnesota home identified as her cousin is arrested for manslaughter

Police have arrested a Minnesota woman in connection to the death of her 6-year-old cousin, who was found frozen outside her home last month.

Rachel Downer, 22, was taken into custody Friday and charged with second-0degree manslaughter and felony neglect of a child.

Downer's cousin Mercedes Mayfield was discovered unconscious in the entrance to an apartment building in Bemidji on the morning of February 27 after spending hours in temperatures that fell to nearly 30 degrees-below-zero with windchill of -40.

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KEYWORDS: child; froze; minnesota
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To: montanajoe

Don’t care for the kid in the womb don’t care for the kid after. Pathetic and something I will never never understand

The problem is to most of us a child is so much and must be taken care of to love to raise to be a good citizen

But to them the child is a cash crop just like the cows I use to have if I lost one and I did I felt bad but that was life

To them its just a cash crop adds to government check that is all


21 posted on 03/15/2014 12:11:57 AM PDT by mouser (Run the rats out its the only chance we have)
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To: Morgana

Oh damn it these stories make you sick.

With two littler kids plus her well, where the hell is their dad at?


22 posted on 03/15/2014 12:35:55 AM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Navy Patriot

Been awhile since I last set foot in Bemidji and it’s exciting to see that the complexion has changed.


23 posted on 03/15/2014 2:33:00 AM PDT by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: Navy Patriot

She hasn't been missing any meals.

24 posted on 03/15/2014 4:45:47 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Morgana

I had a feeling that they were Amish.


25 posted on 03/15/2014 5:00:17 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (2014: The Year of DEAD RINOS)
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To: Rockpile

The sperm donor? Probably breeding more welfare kids.


26 posted on 03/15/2014 5:13:42 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (2014: The Year of DEAD RINOS)
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To: ansel12
"With wind chills of 40 below, experts say frostbite can set in in less than 30 minutes"

It can "set in" a LOT quicker than that. I grew up in Bemidji. I lived just across an athletic field from the college swimming pool, and I was on the swim team. I would get up for morning practice, and run across the field to save time. It was a quick run, so I wouldn't always dress properly for the weather since I would put on a swimming suit when I got there, anyway.

One cold, windy morning, I quickly ran to the pool, jumped into my suit, and jumped into the pool. I quickly jumped right out, again. My ears had frozen, and thawed quickly when I hit the water. It was quite painful. It also took several years before all the lingering effects were gone. I was probably in the cold for only two or three minutes. The run to the pool was into the wind.

27 posted on 03/15/2014 5:37:50 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (for)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch

A follower of Arachne, I see.

Good one.


28 posted on 03/15/2014 7:26:51 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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