People Like This

Are the reason why everyone else, bad parent or good parent or somewhere in the middle, suffer at the hands of Child Protective Services and legislators who create laws requiring, in some cases, forcible "abduction" of children from their biological parents and subjecting innocent children and (in a few cases) innocent parents to months and even years of separation, irreparably damaging the parent-child relationship and leaving a path of destruction causing emotional trauma, financial devastation, and ultimate undermining of Due Process guaranteed by The Constitution, while people like this get away with MURDERING a child:

London Marie Sherwood

Here's what set me off: I got a very touching MySpace bulletin about a beautiful 3-month-old baby girl whose mother was pictured holding her and crying, having decided to terminate life support on the child whose father had abused her so severely she would never recover. It was accompanied by a (difficult to read and disturbing) note from the mother, Jessica, who had made this impossibly difficult decision and begging others to be careful who they leave their children with. Disturbed was a mild word for how I felt - I was mortified. I was going to post this case on my child abuse blog, so I started searching for more information from a slightly more "objective" source, if you will, than the mother (there's always more to the story, this I know). I found what I was looking for and about lost my shit right there. This bitch has the balls to whine about how we need to be careful who we leave our children with because she thought she trusted the man she left her infant daughter with (the baby's father, proven by DNA testing), AFTER SHE HAD ABANDONED THE BABY to this guy 3 weeks prior. This is a YouTube clip with a news report about the case:



In the current climate of "guilty until proven innocent and even then still guilty" where child abuse and neglect are concerned but "claim mental illness because you just can't help what you do when you're sick in the head," I know that both this bitch who abandoned her baby in the first place and the son-of-a-wanker who murdered his own daughter will both be excused from any meaningful form of punishment and will be offered services up the wazoo (at taxpayer expense, of course) to make them fit parents so they can keep breeding, while other parents who have done nothing this heinous (and are denied Due Process regarding their parental rights) will never see their children again and not be able to bring any more children into the world because the state would automatically remove THOSE children as well, will not be determined to be mentally ill and will receive no services PERIOD.

Yeah, great system here in this country, isn't it?