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Or did he toss her?

The Casey Anthony murder trial is underway. And talk about bombshells.

To hear her defense attorney, Casey Anthony’s father tossed her under the bus three years ago.  According to them, Casey’s father was with Caylee when she drowned in the family pool. Casey wasn’t even home when it happened. Yet, somehow, after it happened, George screamed at Casey that she was a bad mother and would go to prison for the rest of her life. So Casey left, presumably with Caylee’s body, and George, who she has now decided has been sexually abusing her since she was eight years old (and so has her brother) set about incriminating her. Oh, and the guy who found the body? Actually, he’s the guy who put the body there. Yep, that’s her (latest) story and by God she’s sticking to it.

George says that’s 100% untrue, that Caylee did not drown in the pool to his knowledge and that he has not in any way abused Casey or anyone else. Ever. He says he has no idea how Caylee died and that if he had been aware of her death, he would have immediately called for help, no matter how it happened. Lies! say Casey and her attorney.

And yet … Do we not all remember the string of lies and ever-changing stories she told when her daughter first came up missing? Do we not recall that this woman lies more often than she tells the truth? (If you need a refresher, read the Caylee Anthony archives right here on the blog.)

It’s disgusting. It’s a shame they can’t off her twice — once for murdering Caylee and once for throwing her Dad under the bus. On the very minuscule chance that she’s telling the truth and her Dad *is* involved somehow, well, I hope there’s a special seat in hell reserved for both of them.

ABC — or just Google It™.

You call it.

Jeanette passed this one along.

Personally, I consider it child abuse, but your mileage may vary.

The pain 8-year-old Brittney describes doesn’t come from falling off of her bike, or losing a tooth-but from this: Botox injections-administered by her Mother.

Britney’s mother says she started giving the injections to keep up with the beauty-take-all world of the pageant circuit an idea planted by other pageant moms.

What do you think? Abuse or acceptable?

I’m not one to throw the term “child abuse” around lightly, but if this doesn’t qualify I’d really like to know what does …

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Do not deserve to be parents

Jeanette tipped me to this one.

Steven Demink, 41, of Redford Township, Mich., appeared in federal court in Detroit to enter his plea on six charges related to the sexual exploitation of children. Seven charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. He faces 15 years to life in prison when he is sentenced in June.

Court documents paint a picture of a man who targeted single mothers, and in some cases, promised them a date if they followed through with his directions. He would identify himself in conversations as Dalton St. Clair, a single father of a 14-year-old girl, prosecutors said, and posted pictures of male models as his headshots.
He connected with mothers in New Hampshire, Idaho, Florida and elsewhere from April 2009 until September 2010, authorities say, and got them to engage in sexual acts with their children and send images via e-mail or through a live web stream. The children ranged in age from 3 to 15.

In one case, Demink started online chats with an Oregon woman about the sexual development of her eight-year-old autistic son, according to a plea agreement. He told her to engage in sexually explicit conduct with her son as a way to teach him about sex, and she did so while Demink watched on a web camera, prosecutors say.

The mother of a woman who had been chatting with him called sheriff’s officials in late 2009. Sheriff’s officials tipped off federal agents who then led the probe.

So far, seven children have been identified and three moms have been arrested.

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… or the parents?

If your eight year old child has been arrested five times, how much of the blame for his behavior should be laid at your feet?

Mind you, this kid isn’t being arrested for shoplifting, prank phone calls, petty vandalism or the like. He’s not out spray painting bad words on the neighbor’s fence or throwing rocks at windows.  He’s being arrested for violent behavior:  according to the arrest report, the boy “threw chairs, books and a desk at his classmates” … the child then left the campus, climbed a 4-foot-high chain link fence and threw sticks at a school employee who was following him, striking her without causing injury.  He then picked up a piece of pipe and threw it at her.

In a previous incident, deputies responded to a complaint that the boy began throwing papers and books around the classroom after becoming frustrated about an assignment.  When the teacher tried to restrain him from this behavior, the kid then kicked the teacher and bit him in the knee.

Sounds to me like the little brat is a poster child for the legalization of child abuse:

An 8-year-old boy who’s been arrested five times since November for assaulting teachers at his Florida school has been released from juvenile detention because the judge said he’s too young and small to be held. But the adjudicator chastised the pupil’s mother for not getting him help.

“He is your responsibility. We really do not want to be involved in his life,” Orange County Judge Alicia Latimore told the boy’s mother during a court appearance Friday.

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The boy, arrested for the fifth time last week, appeared in court surrounded by three Orange County Sheriff’s deputies, WFTV in Orlando reported. He was handcuffed and escorted from the school on Tuesday and spent three days in juvenile detention after being charged with battery on a school employee.

The boy “was quiet and cooperative” with deputies, the report said, noting they had been called to the school on several other occasions because of the boy.”Each time,” the report said, the boy “told this deputy that he acts out because he gets mad, usually because no one read to him or (didn’t) do something that he wants them to do.”

Clearly, the child has not been taught that one doesn’t always get one’s way; and that the proper response when faced with this sort of situation is not to beat the hell out of someone or something.

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… she needs some …

If you leave your 2-year old child unsupervised in the food court of the mall long enough for your child to crawl up inside a claw machine and get stuck … you have also left your child unattended long enough for your child to be kidnapped, get lost, fall down the stairs, wander outside, get hurt on the escalator … the list goes on and on.

I understand that accidents happen. I understand how quick the little rugrats are and how they can get away from you in a split second. And if Mom had said “I think the opening in these things should be smaller” (which she did, in fact, say) then I would not be ragging on her nearly as much.

My problem is what else Mom said …

The mother of the girl talked to Channel 11 News, saying she wants the machines taken out of all malls.

How ’bout you pay more attention to your kid instead, lady?

This kind of attitude pisses me off. There comes a point where you have to take your share of the responsibility for the things you do and the decisions you make.

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And his sisters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell?

If you need a reminder, click here for my original posts about these children.  (Scroll down, because this post will still be at the top when you click there!)

Since the children were taken from the home back in January of 2009, much has come out about them and their parents. For instance, neither parent works, both suffer from unidentified physical and psychological disabilities and both have a history of abuse from their own lives which neither have dealt with. When her children were taken from her, Deborah Campbell angrily asked whether she was being forced to choose between her children and her husband and then said, “fine, take them” according to court documents.

Life with their parents was described in court documents as bleak for the children. The children were surrounded by Nazi memorabilia and other “unusual decorative features” including swords, knives and skulls. Windows were nailed shut. Neighbors complained that the children were being strapped into their booster seats for unusually long periods of time amid ongoing domestic violence.

Dad (Heath, aged 37) cannot read or write, has been married twice before, fathered other children and has a history of domestic violence, according to the ruling. One of his ex-wives has a restraining order against him and has “moved to an Air Force base with family in Florida to be away and safe from him.”  One of his ex-wives testified that he disciplined their son so severely with a vacuum in his face that to this day every time she cleans house with the vacuum he screams “bloody murder.” She also testified that she could not bring her son around “anybody that isn’t white” because the son would say “terrible things” that he learned at his daddy’s knee.

Mom (Deborah, 27) dropped out of school before completing tenth grade, but she is at least somewhat able to read and write as evidenced by a letter she once gave a neighbor which said that if she was ever found dead her husband was to blame. The letter, in part, also read:

Hes thrend to have me killed or kill me himself hes alread tried it a few times. Im scare to leave b/c I will be killed. Im afread that he might hurt my children if they are keeped in his care… He’s already stabed me with a screwdriver in the hand… He teaches my son how to kill someone at the age of 3.

Deborah admitted in court that she did indeed write the letter, and that she had in fact told her neighbors that she feared for her and her children’s safety and lives.  She went on however to say that it was all lies and that Heath is just a “perfect guy.”

While in foster care, Adolf in particular has acted out aggressively toward his sisters, his foster mother and the state psychologist Dr. Alice Nadelman. “(He) took a vacuum cleaner to his sister’s throat, saying, ‘I’m going to kill you.’  The boy told the foster mother on more than one occasion that she was a ‘bitch’ and that he was going to kill her… Dr. Nadelman was called a ‘bitch’ by the 3-year-old boy when she prevented him from leaving the room.” Adolf is reported to frequently threaten to kill people who do not bow to his wishes, and his adjective for any woman who pisses him off is “bitch.”  The apple of his daddy’s eye, no doubt.

I’m not a big fan of removing children from their homes, but this was the right decision.  And since they were already being supported by welfare and other forms of public assistance, it’s not like putting them into the foster system resulted in any more of a drain on the public dole, is it?

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The other 365 days are for having failed to register

Victor Jones (41) was arrested in Indiana in May of 2006 and charged with solicitation of a minor. As part of his punishment, he was required to register as a sex offender for ten years. In 2007, he decided to move to Michigan. He didn’t register as a sex offender. In March of 2008, he failed to show up at a custody hearing. He instead went to the school, picked up his daughter and fled to Fairborn, Ohio.

Indiana authorities issued an arrest warrant for Jones for violating conditions of his release. Michigan authorities issued an arrest warrant for Jones for failure to register as a sex offender and for kidnapping. Based on the Indiana warrant, deputy U.S. Marshals arrested Jones at his Fairborn residence on June 25. He has been in custody since his arrest.

Jones was charged federally on July 7, 2009 with traveling in interstate commerce and failing to register as a sex offender. [Dayton Daily News]

Despite what he apparently believed to be a compelling argument as to why he had failed to register as a sex offender, Jones was sentenced on Friday to one year and one day. His argument? He did not register as a sex offender because he did not want to be found by law enforcement. I shit you not.

An early contender in the race for this year’s title

An as yet unnamed south Florida man is in jail today, charged with aggravated child battery.  His three-month old son is in the hospital with five fractured ribs.

Authorities say that the man, his girlfriend and the baby, were sleeping on their bed on Monday, when the baby started crying.

Authorities say the man told detectives he rolled over and punched the infant twice on the stomach with a closed fist. Authorities say that later he picked up the child to give him his bottle and slapped him across the mouth because he still would not stop crying.

Hopefully someone in jail with the jerk will serve up a little justice.  God knows he won’t get what he deserves from the courts.

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And she won’t lose her parental rights either

I am certain some of you will disagree with me, but I don’t think this woman should even be permitted around children, much less left with custody of one.

Linda D. and Loretta are guilty for tipping me to this one as well, however there’s not a thing funny about it.

A Georgia woman is in jail after police say she forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as punishment for bad grades.

The sheriff of rural Meriwether County told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday that the 12-year-old boy told his teacher about the killing. The teacher reported it to the Division of Family and Child Services, who contacted police.

Sheriff Steve Whitlock said 38-year-old Lynn Middlebrooks Geter of Warm Springs faces one charge each of animal cruelty, child cruelty and battery.

I simply cannot fathom how she thought this was an acceptable punishment. I don’t know why they don’t toss child abuse in there as well because this has got to be psychological abuse. “Cruelty” just isn’t strong enough.

Her son is apt to be screwed up for life after this.

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