Posted on 01/27/2006 1:36:47 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
(Children Created 'Safe House')
MILWAUKEE, WI -- A pregnant woman is in custody after police said they found three of her 14 children taking refuge in an abandoned house in Milwaukee.
Police spokeswoman Anne Schwartz said the 9-year-old twin boys and 6-year-old boy had scars and bruising to their backs, buttocks and faces.
The 35-year-old woman's six oldest children had been previously removed from her home by child welfare officials.
The remaining eight have since been removed. The children range in age from 3 to 20.
The three were found Thursday night in an abandoned house near 35th and Brown with no heat, water or electricity.
Police said the children had created a "safe house" where they'd go to escape their mother's beatings.
Authorities said the floor was covered with garbage and feces.
The three children found in the abandoned house told police their mother regularly punches them with her fist and hits them with belts and a broomstick.
Police said there had been complaints about the woman since 1997 related to the care of the children.
Police said she was arrested in 2000 accused of punching an 11-year-old son in the face, but the district attorney didn't prosecute.
Hope that new baby finds a home, and they sterilize this lunatic.
Has court forced sterilization been ruled Unconstitutional? I think it has.
Agreed,
This woman isn't a mother.
Abusing who? the taxpayers?......
Shirley Q. Liquor.
LOL!!!!
Police said she was arrested in 2000 accused of punching an 11-year-old son in the face, but the district attorney didn't prosecute.
--Why not? Does that not constitute abuse enough?
I don't think they can sterilize her. The same wacko's that support legalized murder (abortion) also support a woman's right to procreate. Sickening.
And liberals criticize groups that pay wome $200 to voluntarily have their tubes tied.
Sterilization makes sense, but the problem is who do you trust to make this decision, a gubmint flunkie? Some fool of a judge? We don't want to go back there, because you could be next. I know. They did it to my grandmother at a time when Black women had no rights.
And I agree with your punishment idea.
I am also outraged at a community who did nothing.
Since at minimum the 3 year old and the 6 year old have been born since then, if "The System" had done it's job and had the woman sterilized, that's two less kids that would have been beaten, and the rest could have been taken away and placed in homes with people who would raise them properly. That might include the occasional spanking or swat on the but-tocks (as Forrest might say), but not beatings, which is a whole other thing.
I hope the Child Welfare folks are proud of themselves, cause no one else surely is.
People like this make me wonder if forced sterlization is all bad.
It's one of those things. Yeah, it's clearly a violation of private citizen's rights, IMHO.
However, in practical terms, I would agree people like this should NOT reproduce.
And the worst part is, assuming they survive to adulthood, all those kids of hers are going to turn out more or less like Mom. Maybe one will not, but most will.
If she had been spayed, the license would have been cheaper, though.
Well they could incarcerate her, but why should the taxpayers foot the bill for that?
I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. However making decisions like that is why we have judges, to apply judgment. The problem is that they haven't been held accountable for their mistakes, especially the systematic ones, such as discriminating against people based on the color of their skin, and not the quality of their character (or lack thereof).
"In before the Ping?" LOL!
I didn't ping the crew because I've been bombarding them (and you!) with Doyle and Feingold pings today. But yes, you win! You win! :)
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