Posted on 04/23/2009 8:46:56 PM PDT by Morgana
DETROIT - The adoptive mother of a nine-year-old quadriplegic girl whose body was found in a plastic bag in a storage unit has been arrested in her death, and is a blood relative of the girl, a prosecutor said Thursday.
The unidentified woman was arrested Wednesday after the discovery of Shylea Thomas's body, said Special Assistant Genesee County Prosecutor John Potbury. She faces charges ranging from misdemeanour moving a corpse to felony murder, Potbury said.
Shylea's body was found Wednesday in a plastic bag in a storage bin. Moth balls were scattered on top of the bag to mask any smells.
Authorities said they were told by the family that Shylea had been paralyzed since nearly suffocating in her crib as an infant.
Prosecutor David Leyton described conditions at her home as "absolutely filthy."
"It appears that Shylea had a rough go in life," Leyton said in a statement.
The statement said relatives of the girl told state Human Services department workers that Shylea had not been seen in six weeks.
Officials notified police, who learned late Tuesday or early Wednesday that the girl was dead and her body hidden in the storage facility.
I should think the left would be for this.
Well the mother does sound like an Obama voter!
There will soon be a time when this type of thing is perfectly legal in the USA. They will consider it morally good to engage in the “compassionate liquidation” of the infirm and burdensome. Maybe that time has already come.
Either way, I have long since given up on humanity.
Naw...don’t give up on humanity....just the ones that vote democrat!
Partially-lived-life abortion.
Even the Left couldn’t surpport acts likr this..
I guess you don't understand the LEFT. Any left wing animal who condones partial birth abortion wouldn't be phased in the least by this sick incident
You are so incredibly wrong. Not only could they support it, they could make a sitcom out of it.
Name me a few. Individuals or groups. I want to alert the authorities.
Even noted Left winger Margaret Sanger, proponent of eugenics and abortion activist didn't take that step.
There should be a thick line between hyperbole and reality.
I hate it when the Left paints President Bush as too stupid too breathe and in the next sentence protrays him as the next Hitler, the mastermind of the greatest conspiracy in history(911).
We should plant our arguments in the fertile soil of reality.
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