Twenty five and still living at home.
Posted on 10/30/2002 3:04:50 PM PST by Sweet_Sunflower29
The case of the breast-fed 8-year-old is back in court.
An Illinois judge said Lynn Stuckey's continued breast-feeding of her son amounts to neglect. The judge said Stuckey going public with her story is also exposing the boy to emotional harm.
A tape of Stuckey breast-feeding the boy was shown on ABC's "Good Morning America." But Stuckey testified Tuesday that her son wants to continue to nurse.
In the past, she's said there's nothing wrong with an 8-year-old breast-feeding.
Stuckey's son was placed in foster care last year after a caretaker of the child told authorities that the child was still breast-feeding and that his mother was sleeping with him in the nude.
Stuckey told prosecutors she did not force her child to nurse and that she was not gaining sexual pleasure from the experience. She said she would allow her son to continue breast-feeding until he weaned himself. She also said she felt breast-feeding might be inappropriate when a child reaches his teens.
Stuckey also claimed her son had not been teased at school or in their neighborhood and she did not believe that she was causing him emotional harm.
But prosecutors did not share that feeling after finding out about Stuckey's TV appearance.
"To me, it's just absolutely unbelievable that she's doing that ... Her conduct doesn't hurt me or the Champaign County court system (that reunited her with her child last year) nearly as much as it does the true victim, which is her own child," Champaign County State's Attorney John Piland told reporters.
Another hearing is set for Nov. 22 to determine whether Stuckey will keep custody of the boy.
Oh, yea. "Honey? Can little Davy sleep in his own bed tonight?"
Twenty five and still living at home.
I can remember being teased in kindergarten about sucking my thumb. It stopped within a week. I can't imagine what an 8 year old titty baby must be going through. Somebody slap sense into that lady.
Hell, no:
Prosecutors are trying to force a woman to stop breast-feeding her 8-year-old son, a practice that once temporarily landed the boy in foster care.
During a brief hearing Tuesday, Judge Ann Einhorn warned Lynn Stuckey, 34, against continuing the practice and set future court dates to consider the prosecutor's petition claiming neglect.
Stuckey lets her son nurse once every 10 days or so, a practice she calls natural, child-led weaning, though she's unsure whether she still produces milk.
The state took custody of the boy in July 2000 after a baby sitter called a child-abuse hot line, and he remained in foster care for several months. Einhorn had approved his homecoming, saying Stuckey was no longer nursing.
The single mother appeared on a morning talk show last month to discuss her situation, the first time she was identified publicly. The program included a tape of the boy while suckling.
"I think people need to see me and my child and realize that this is a perfectly normal practice," Stuckey said on the program. "We are your standard middle-class American family, and we're not doing anything wrong."
About a week later, prosecutor John Piland filed the petition, which alleges that Stuckey has neglected her son by placing him at risk of emotional harm; failed to correct the conditions that triggered the foster care two years ago; and exposed him to ridicule by showing the tape.
The petition does not bring criminal charges, instead asking the judge to intervene under the state's juvenile laws. The judge could terminate parental rights, but Piland would not say whether he'll seek that.
"The court has broad powers to do lots of things," he said.
A new hearing was set for Sept. 10.
The boy's father lived in Oregon during the last court test and has had little role in raising him.
I can remember being teased in kindergarten about sucking my thumb. It stopped within a week. I can't imagine what an 8 year old titty baby must be going through. Somebody slap sense into that lady.
She also said she felt breast-feeding might be inappropriate when a child reaches his teens.
MIGHT be inappropriate??? MIGHT??? Hard to believe she has the nerve to actually say this in public.
Apparently, she's one of those idiots who read the parenting books, written by liberal clods who believe in the child raising the parents. I suppose that if the kid wanted to watch her and her partner/whatever having sex, she wouldn't mind. This country is beyond the toilet and is in the septic tank.
I would bet that was BEFORE she allowed a tv station to show a tape of her breast feeding her son.
So little Boob Jr will now get teased at school and mom will file a lawsuit against the school district claiming her son was unjustly harassed and the the teasers will be expelled due to zero teasing tolerance policy.
" She also said she felt breast-feeding might be inappropriate when a child reaches his teens."
Might be? MIGHT BE?!! For the majority of us, there aren't any "might be's" about it, we know it's inappropriate and wrong. sheeesh.
Who had three boys, Nat Pat and Tat.
It was fun in the breeding,
But Hell in the feeding,
For there was no tit for Tat.
I'm so ashamed, but I couldn't resist.
Regards,
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