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This poor poor baby  

post #1 of 22
9/28/07 at 3:36pm
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**Warning: this article discusses very sad child neglect.**

http://www.wisn.com/news/14223467/detail.html

14 months old! I just can't get over that. I'm so glad he's safe now.

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post #2 of 22
9/28/07 at 3:59pm
That is so disgusting.
post #3 of 22
9/28/07 at 4:29pm
Oh my zGod, that poor poor boy. I am just so happy that he is out of there and hopefully on his way to a good home. So sad. Danni
post #4 of 22
9/28/07 at 5:57pm
I don't get how neighbors didn't hear him crying? or was he "trained" That's so sick and with so many social programs to help with childcare. I wish people could be sterilized for s**** like this.:
post #5 of 22
9/28/07 at 6:13pm
I think it's a really sad situation that there was no help for that family. I bet they are both struggling with addiction issues and possibly limited mental functioning.
post #6 of 22
9/28/07 at 6:24pm
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Originally Posted by Ellien C View Post
I think it's a really sad situation that there was no help for that family. I bet they are both struggling with addiction issues and possibly limited mental functioning.
Or maybe they are just horrible, abusive people who don't care about their son. You don't know there wasn't help for the family. You don't know who tried to help them or whether they tried to access services. I don't see why we should jump to assuming that they must be mentally handicapped or that they had no support system. I see nothing in the article to suggest that.
post #7 of 22
9/28/07 at 6:26pm
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Originally Posted by Heavenly View Post
Or maybe they are just horrible, abusive people who don't care about their son.
I don't think that of anyone. But no, I don't know the whole situation. I just choose to feel bad for the whole family.
post #8 of 22
9/28/07 at 8:23pm
Oh, that poor baby. 21 min. of CPR suggests to me that this poor boy is not going to recover completely. I'm going to keep him in my prayers.
post #9 of 22
9/28/07 at 8:45pm
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Originally Posted by Heavenly View Post
Or maybe they are just horrible, abusive people who don't care about their son.
Yup...

I went to school with a girl that was like that. She had TONS of support (her parents, her husbands parents)...she was just a terrible mother. Left him home alone for hours at a time, allowed him to crawl around eating out of ashtrays, only changed his diaper 2 times a day (couldn't afford it)...etc.

She's smart as anyone else, just a TERRIBLE mother.

Thank goodness after I made THREE calls CPS finally removed him.
post #10 of 22
9/28/07 at 9:50pm
Yeah, not gonna waste any sympathy on the parents. That poor little baby. I'm imagining him strapped in a stroller, sitting alone in the apartment for hours, crying and crying from pain and hunger :
post #11 of 22
9/28/07 at 9:57pm
I feel so sad for this babe.:
post #12 of 22
9/29/07 at 12:55am
So sad.
post #13 of 22
9/29/07 at 6:50am
So sad. Poor little guy...only changed his diaper once a day? Left him alone? Even at this young, his social/emotional development must be severely damaged. :
post #14 of 22
9/29/07 at 10:25am
god, people really make me sick! that poor baby
post #15 of 22
9/29/07 at 11:08pm
: effing christ its people like that that make young parents look horrible and such a stigma in our society........ poor baby I hope he recovers quickly and gets a loving family....:
post #16 of 22
10/1/07 at 4:54pm
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Originally Posted by vloky View Post
I don't get how neighbors didn't hear him crying? or was he "trained" That's so sick and with so many social programs to help with childcare. I wish people could be sterilized for s**** like this.:
It's possible he'd learnt not to bother crying as nobody would come to help him out

Such a horrible story.
post #17 of 22
10/1/07 at 6:19pm
Crying... maybe I shouldn't have read this. Going to give dd the biggest hug ever when she gets home from her walk with Daddy. How CAN they? Oh, it makes me sick.
post #18 of 22
10/2/07 at 1:50am
people who are not in some way damaged are almost never such uncaring parents. i'll give the above poster that. something terrible must have happened to these people but that really shouldn't be their baby's problem. hopefully he'll get some good foster parents and find a good option for permanent care.

it's cases like these that leave me so conflicted over CPS. I know they drop the ball sometimes but we need people to look our for kids like this little guy. i'm quite sure it was cases like these that made the workers who "helped" my family so suspicious of every parent they saw.
post #19 of 22
10/2/07 at 10:13am
See why I continue to be a fan of sterilization....
post #20 of 22
10/2/07 at 9:27pm
Thank God someone intervened before it was too late for that little guy. I hope he is in a wonderful foster home.
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