Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Mom Trumps Law
This morning on the radio, they were talking about a story coming out of Pennsylvania about a mom that was waiting at the bus stop for her child to get off the bus. When the bus stopped, kids are yelling at her for help saying that her son wasn't waking up and wasn't moving. From the window, she sees her son slumped over in his seat, unresponsive. Being a registered nurse, not to mention his mother, she rushes onto the bus to help. The bus driver informs her that it is illegal for parents to go on the school bus. Now, this woman is facing a $2500 fine and up to a year in jail. As it turned out, her son was completely fine, just in a deep sleep. What are you opinions on this? Personally, I think it is absolutely ridiculous! If kids were yelling at me that one of my girls wasn't moving and needed help, nurse or not, I am on that bus! It is my duty as a mother to protect my children. If I fear for their health or safety, you better believe that the law will take a back seat. Also, shouldn't the bus driver have been more concerned with the child than keeping the mom who is a nurse off the bus? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't nurses and doctors required by law to help if they come upon someone in need? What if the bus had been in a crash? Would that mother still have been arrested if she went onto the bus to pull out the children? Or, what if her child DID need medical help? What if he really wasn't breathing and she did help him? I doubt that she would have been arrested in that case. What are your thoughts?
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Disgusting.
You know how it is when you are in middle school and the teacher has a strict NO PASSING NOTES policy but because you are in middle school, you 1) Do the opposite of what the teacher says, and 2) Must pass notes because you absolutely HAVE to tell your BFF that your crush might have looked your way that morning (OMG!)? Well, that's kind of how blogging has been for me this week. I have so much other stuff going on and am really trying to squeeze it in when the teacher isn't looking...
I was called for jury duty on Tuesday. Unlike most people, I was pretty excited! I had never been called for duty before and was interested in everything about it. I've watched enough Law & Order and have read enough Jodi Picoult to understand that sometimes people are wrongly convicted. I was excited for the decision to potentially be in my hands! I was going to go in with a clear mind and hear both sides of the story and no matter what, I would decide if the defendant was guilty or not guilty based solely on the facts...
...Until I saw that man and I heard the charges that were brought against him. I walked into the courtroom with about 50 other potential jurors and sat while the judge read that this 45-year-old man was charged with three Class A felony charges of child molesting and a single Class C felony charge of child molesting. He was arrested on the charges in November. While the charges were being read (in much more detail than you read in the papers, mind you), I watched that man. I watched his face and I watched his reactions to the charges. Before even knowing whether or not I was going to be on that jury, I knew in my heart that the man before me was guilty. I listened as the judge and both attorneys questioned my peers. I was never questioned. I was not chosen to be a juror. I was dismissed. As I was walking out of the courtroom, I saw the now 13-year-old girl that suffered the abuse. I was grateful to not have had to hear that sick man lie on the stand. I was grateful to not have to witness the girl break down as she recalled what he did to her. Later that day, that is what happened. It makes me sick to think of grown adults taking the innocence away from a child. A little girl. Somebody's daughter. I could not stop thinking about it. I only hoped that the panel of jurors saw the obvious and convicted that man. Turns out, they did. He will go to prison and he will get everything he deserves for what he did to that CHILD. Thank you, jury.
I was called for jury duty on Tuesday. Unlike most people, I was pretty excited! I had never been called for duty before and was interested in everything about it. I've watched enough Law & Order and have read enough Jodi Picoult to understand that sometimes people are wrongly convicted. I was excited for the decision to potentially be in my hands! I was going to go in with a clear mind and hear both sides of the story and no matter what, I would decide if the defendant was guilty or not guilty based solely on the facts...
...Until I saw that man and I heard the charges that were brought against him. I walked into the courtroom with about 50 other potential jurors and sat while the judge read that this 45-year-old man was charged with three Class A felony charges of child molesting and a single Class C felony charge of child molesting. He was arrested on the charges in November. While the charges were being read (in much more detail than you read in the papers, mind you), I watched that man. I watched his face and I watched his reactions to the charges. Before even knowing whether or not I was going to be on that jury, I knew in my heart that the man before me was guilty. I listened as the judge and both attorneys questioned my peers. I was never questioned. I was not chosen to be a juror. I was dismissed. As I was walking out of the courtroom, I saw the now 13-year-old girl that suffered the abuse. I was grateful to not have had to hear that sick man lie on the stand. I was grateful to not have to witness the girl break down as she recalled what he did to her. Later that day, that is what happened. It makes me sick to think of grown adults taking the innocence away from a child. A little girl. Somebody's daughter. I could not stop thinking about it. I only hoped that the panel of jurors saw the obvious and convicted that man. Turns out, they did. He will go to prison and he will get everything he deserves for what he did to that CHILD. Thank you, jury.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
You are NOT a mother...
I am so tired of hearing these sick stories of people that are abusing and neglecting their own children! Here are a couple of recent news stories that have happened in Fort Wayne (names and addresses have been omitted).
Published: March 22, 2011 3:00 a.m.
5 home-alone children found near rat poison
The Journal Gazette
Five young children were left alone for more than two hours inside a south-side home with an open container of rat poison within their reach early Sunday, court documents show.
Fort Wayne police found five children ages 3 to 9 unsupervised Sunday in a home in the ### block of [street name]. Four of the children lived at the home with their mother, [mother], and the fifth was left in her care.
[Mother] was arrested on an initial charges of public intoxication and five counts of neglect of a dependent.
Fort Wayne police responded at 3:20 a.m. on a report of a burglary alarm. A 9-year-old boy living at the home said the alarm was sounding, according to court documents.
The boy told police his mother left two hours earlier and didn’t know where she went, court documents said.
Police said the home was filthy, an iron was found plugged in and set to high heat, an empty .45-caliber handgun case was on the dining room table and an open container of rat poison was found within reach of the children, court documents said.
[Mother], 28, called home about 45 minutes after police arrived and told them she was out back having a cigarette and her alarm went off, court documents said.
When [mother] returned home, police said they could smell alcohol on her breath.
[Mother] was booked into Allen County Lockup at 4:20 a.m. and was later released on $12,500 bail.
She left an iron on, a gun on the table, and an open container of rat poison within reach of the children?! She obviously wanted her children to "accidentally" hurt themselves. I am wondering what it was that pushed her over the edge. What could have been SO bad to do this to children??
Published: April 13, 2011 3:00 a.m.
Mom hurt baby girl, 6-year-old tells court
Rebecca S. Green
With his head about a foot above the wall of the witness chair, [son], who had just turned 6, testified he saw his mother punch his infant sister in the stomach.
The little boy’s testimony came at the end of the first day of testimony Tuesday in the Allen County Superior Court trial of [mother], 26.
Johnson is charged with battery causing death of a child, neglect of a dependent causing death and neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury.
She was arrested late in the day on Dec. 9, hours after she took the lifeless body of 4-week-old [daughter] from the [name] home in the #### block of [street name] to the home of friends [friend] and [friend], who lived in an apartment on [street], more than three miles away.
Along with the infant, [mother] had her three other small children in the car and told [friend] she thought the baby was dead.
[Daughter] was dead, having suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on her brain. The Allen County Coroner’s Office later ruled her death a homicide.
According to court documents, [daughter] had obvious injuries to her face and chest area, including burns in different stages of healing.
An unidentified substance was found in her stomach during the autopsy and the pathologist believed the burn to the chest appeared to have come at a different time as the facial burn.
[Mother]’s friend [friend] wiped tears from her eyes as she described how [mother] did not want [daughter], the youngest of her four children, either before the baby’s death or afterward.
[Friend] said [mother] seemed to have an “attitude” about how she felt about the baby, telling everyone she only had three children though she obviously had four.
“I told her she needed to accept her daughter,” [friend] said. “I don’t think she had any attachment to the baby at all.”
At one point [friend] saw an obvious black eye on [daughter], who also seemed to have bubbly saliva. The baby’s condition was so striking [friend] took a picture of her with a cellphone camera.
The picture clearly shows a black and blue left eye and the infant’s lips coated with saliva.
“I don’t know, I just had an instinct something might happen,” [friend] said of her decision to take the picture during cross-examination.
When [friend] asked [mother] about [daughter]'s black eye, [mother] told her the other children had hit her.
But when [son] took the stand Tuesday afternoon, he put the blame on his mother.
In his small-child’s voice, he told the court he once saw [mother] twist the baby’s legs and tell [daughter] she was ugly.
[Son] said the baby slept in his room – sometimes in a car seat – and other times sleeping in the bed with [mother].
During cross-examination, [son] said he told [mother] to stop when he saw her punch the infant and “bend her legs.”
Throughout much of the day, [mother] sat calmly, but was obviously saddened, occasionally wiping tears away from her eyes and clutching a tissue in her hand.
The trial is scheduled to continue through Thursday.
How sick is this?! I can not believe that somebody could do such horrible things to a child... an infant... HER OWN daughter!
Sorry for such a downer post today but I just wanted to share these stories. In the second one, the friend admitted that she thought something was up and even took a picture! She might have been able to save that poor baby if she would have went to the police. It's just so sad.
Published: March 22, 2011 3:00 a.m.
5 home-alone children found near rat poison
The Journal Gazette
Five young children were left alone for more than two hours inside a south-side home with an open container of rat poison within their reach early Sunday, court documents show.
Fort Wayne police found five children ages 3 to 9 unsupervised Sunday in a home in the ### block of [street name]. Four of the children lived at the home with their mother, [mother], and the fifth was left in her care.
[Mother] was arrested on an initial charges of public intoxication and five counts of neglect of a dependent.
Fort Wayne police responded at 3:20 a.m. on a report of a burglary alarm. A 9-year-old boy living at the home said the alarm was sounding, according to court documents.
The boy told police his mother left two hours earlier and didn’t know where she went, court documents said.
Police said the home was filthy, an iron was found plugged in and set to high heat, an empty .45-caliber handgun case was on the dining room table and an open container of rat poison was found within reach of the children, court documents said.
[Mother], 28, called home about 45 minutes after police arrived and told them she was out back having a cigarette and her alarm went off, court documents said.
When [mother] returned home, police said they could smell alcohol on her breath.
[Mother] was booked into Allen County Lockup at 4:20 a.m. and was later released on $12,500 bail.
She left an iron on, a gun on the table, and an open container of rat poison within reach of the children?! She obviously wanted her children to "accidentally" hurt themselves. I am wondering what it was that pushed her over the edge. What could have been SO bad to do this to children??
Published: April 13, 2011 3:00 a.m.
Mom hurt baby girl, 6-year-old tells court
Rebecca S. Green
With his head about a foot above the wall of the witness chair, [son], who had just turned 6, testified he saw his mother punch his infant sister in the stomach.
The little boy’s testimony came at the end of the first day of testimony Tuesday in the Allen County Superior Court trial of [mother], 26.
Johnson is charged with battery causing death of a child, neglect of a dependent causing death and neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury.
She was arrested late in the day on Dec. 9, hours after she took the lifeless body of 4-week-old [daughter] from the [name] home in the #### block of [street name] to the home of friends [friend] and [friend], who lived in an apartment on [street], more than three miles away.
Along with the infant, [mother] had her three other small children in the car and told [friend] she thought the baby was dead.
[Daughter] was dead, having suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on her brain. The Allen County Coroner’s Office later ruled her death a homicide.
According to court documents, [daughter] had obvious injuries to her face and chest area, including burns in different stages of healing.
An unidentified substance was found in her stomach during the autopsy and the pathologist believed the burn to the chest appeared to have come at a different time as the facial burn.
[Mother]’s friend [friend] wiped tears from her eyes as she described how [mother] did not want [daughter], the youngest of her four children, either before the baby’s death or afterward.
[Friend] said [mother] seemed to have an “attitude” about how she felt about the baby, telling everyone she only had three children though she obviously had four.
“I told her she needed to accept her daughter,” [friend] said. “I don’t think she had any attachment to the baby at all.”
At one point [friend] saw an obvious black eye on [daughter], who also seemed to have bubbly saliva. The baby’s condition was so striking [friend] took a picture of her with a cellphone camera.
The picture clearly shows a black and blue left eye and the infant’s lips coated with saliva.
“I don’t know, I just had an instinct something might happen,” [friend] said of her decision to take the picture during cross-examination.
When [friend] asked [mother] about [daughter]'s black eye, [mother] told her the other children had hit her.
But when [son] took the stand Tuesday afternoon, he put the blame on his mother.
In his small-child’s voice, he told the court he once saw [mother] twist the baby’s legs and tell [daughter] she was ugly.
[Son] said the baby slept in his room – sometimes in a car seat – and other times sleeping in the bed with [mother].
During cross-examination, [son] said he told [mother] to stop when he saw her punch the infant and “bend her legs.”
Throughout much of the day, [mother] sat calmly, but was obviously saddened, occasionally wiping tears away from her eyes and clutching a tissue in her hand.
The trial is scheduled to continue through Thursday.
How sick is this?! I can not believe that somebody could do such horrible things to a child... an infant... HER OWN daughter!
Sorry for such a downer post today but I just wanted to share these stories. In the second one, the friend admitted that she thought something was up and even took a picture! She might have been able to save that poor baby if she would have went to the police. It's just so sad.
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