Posted on 12/20/2004 1:50:30 AM PST by JohnHuang2
One about-to-be-grandmother, Becky Harper, who discovered her pregnant daughter, near death from strangulation in her own home – her abdomen slashed open – her unborn granddaughter gone.
OMG NEAR DEATH?? This story is horrible enough as it is, But being near death and having the baby removed from her.. This makes me sick.
I wonder if the child must be a part of the foster care system already in order for the credit to kick in.
As a former guardian ad litem for the juvenile courts who re-upped a few years ago, I was amazed by all the changes wrought in the system during my hiatus ... the most dramatic of which were the way kids were now "fasttracked" through the system according to a strict timetable of dispositive dates (not terribly conducive to patching a family, actually) and the way all the best OCS workers had ended up a part of the adoption unit.
The push is definitely to get kids out of foster care ... even if it means termination of the parental rights which, sadly enough, is often warranted.
Thanks very much for the correction.
More than twenty years ago (1981) Ken Rex McElroy, the town bully and thief, was shot down in full view of dozens of town residents - including the Baptist Preacher. It was rumoured that 3 or 4 of the towns leading citizens stepped up and each shot McElroy. What is known is that he was shot with several different firearms and no one, not one town citizen standing in full view of the crime scene, admitted to seeing anything.
I know about this because I worked with a former deputy for Nodaway County who was on duty that day. She said that the Sheriff had been in Skidmore attending a town meeting about the "McElroy" problem and that the Sheriff had not gotten back to the county seat before the shooting call came in. When he, and other deputies, got to Skidmore they found McElroy's truck, engine burnt up from his foot pushing the gas pedal by reflex, with McElroy stone dead behind the wheel. The truck had run wide-open for twenty-forty minutes until it blew up and no one came to turn it off.
That's Skidmore. That's Nodaway County. Can you say "death penalty" for this child stealing butcher? I sure can see it coming.
IIRC, the sheriff's hands were tied and there wasn't much he could do about the guy and remain within the law. And the guy knew it, too, which made his depredations even more threatening to the community.
Really? I think all that has to be done to get a death penalty is to choose a jury of 12 women over thirty. But then, maybe there's still some idealism left in me over the judgement of my sex...
Prayers for this child and surviving family.
Full Nipple Jacket...
I was a preemie myself, 3 lbs 8 oz and my weight soon dropped to 3 lbs. 3 oz. I was in an incubator at a time when the lights were so bright that many babies became blind, many doctors of that era weren't aware of the hazards. Fortunately my hospital was aware of that hazard, and my eyesight was normal. But I ran into at least one case of a woman born the same year I was, premature, placed in an incubator with bright lights, who is legally blind (limited vision in her eyes).
"Well of course she's disturbed. How about a loony, nutso, batty, nuttier than a Payday, howling at the moon psycho?"
She's Evil. Like Hitler. Like 9 out of 10 serial killers. Like a lot of people.
fetus means offspring or little one. Fetus means BABY.
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