[DieHard the Hunter]

> The couple may face upgraded charges.

Capital murder, I hope? Surely this world would be better off without such people in it? And surely their continued existence is a bad thing for all parties concerned: even their own?

> The infant boy sealed in concrete by a Brooklyn couple charged with pimping out his enslaved hooker mom, was beaten to death, the Daily News has learned.

I had to parse this sentence several times before I had figured out what it meant. Very poorly written article: the author should be bastinadoed for crimes against our Mother Tongue.

> The infant boy sealed in concrete”
> Carlos’ body sealed inside a Rubbermaid storage bin

And I was confused by this: which was it, concrete or the Rubbermaid bin?

If concrete, there wouldn’t be much left to identify after a while. Concrete is extremely caustic: it causes terrible burns after contact with skin after only a couple hours. Longer than that and it gets really unpleasant.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’m taking it that the body was encased in concrete, poured in the bin. Bones would still tell the story of this ill fated child’s brief history.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I learned something new today, a child beaten to death dies of a syndrome:

"The cause of death is battered child syndrome," said spokeswoman Ellen Borakove.

Like the child is just afflicted with this health problem. How about a good old "cause of death is homicide."