December 30th, 2005
Like any good father, Alton Hanscom involved his son, Mark, in the family business. Sadly, that’s where any similar between Hanscom and a good parent ends. After several months of undercover buys, police raided the Hanscom’s housing development apartment and found over 1,000 Oxycontin pills - some of them in plain sight in the room [...]
By admin -- 0 comments
December 29th, 2005
I don’t know if you can classify this as parents behaving badly; it all depends on who gets the blame for letting Juan Reyes babysit two toddlers while their mom gave birth at a nearby hospital. From what the article says, both Reyes and the family lived in the same house, so I can’t imagine [...]
By admin -- 1 comment
December 29th, 2005
Maria Wells, the estranged wife of Geoffrey Wells, has posted an update on her soon-to-be-ex-husband’s case. You’ll remember that Wells was charged after one of his sons, Syber, committed suicide with a loaded, unsecured pistol that his father had left lying around. The result of that carelessness? Wells has received a 12 month suspended sentence [...]
By admin -- 15 comments
December 29th, 2005
Earlier this week I wrote about William Alfred Ginglen, the ex-Marine who taught his son such deep values that they felt compelled to turn in him when they discovered dad was robbing banks. Now comes word that the 64-year-old Ginglen has been sentenced to 40 years behind bars. The married Ginglen was leading a double [...]
By admin -- 15 comments
December 28th, 2005
From the “You Can’t Make Up Something This Twisted” Department comes the shocking tale of Nazir Ahmed. The Pakistani dad suspected his 25-year-old stepsister was having an affair. So, like any rational dad, he slit her throat. He then proceeded to slit the throat of his three biological daughters as his wife looked on, clutching [...]
By admin -- 5 comments
December 28th, 2005
Stephen Swarbrick’s children will finish up their childhoods without a father. The 41-year-old Brit lost his keys after getting drunk on Christmas Eve, then tried to scale a drain pipe at his house (presumably to climb in through a window). He was found alive the next morning, but later died.
Hey parents, if you want to [...]
By admin -- 1 comment
December 28th, 2005
“You’re disgusting, everybody at school hates you.” Sounds like the typical ugliness you’d read in a note written by a middle-schooler, or on Bill O’Reilly’s Web site, huh? But no! The Jerusalem 10-year-old who received such messages has her own newly-minted stepmother to thank for this vitriol. Stepmommy Dearest also admitted to trying to slip [...]
By admin -- 1 comment
December 28th, 2005
Ahh, what could be better than a friendly father-son discussion over who owes whom money? I know - let’s throw in some firearms! Phat Phuoc Le (I’m hoping to God that’s not pronounced how I think it is) of Lebanon, Pennsylvania’s China Gate Eastery was arrested after grabbing a gun out of a cupboard [...]
By admin -- 0 comments
December 27th, 2005
Remember the last story we reported out of Africa? Involving a family with HIV and an ax, it wasn’t exactly what you’d call uplifting. So I’m pleased that this Parent Behaving Badly story out of Ghana actually has an uplifting ending. 18-year-old Sophia Adoo didn’t fully realize she was pregnant until she went to relieve [...]
By admin -- 4 comments
December 27th, 2005
Over on Blogging Baby, we covered the story of Joseph and Lamoy Andressohn, who were convicted of child neglect charges after their kids wasted away on a strict raw food diet. It was never clear whether it was the diet itself that was to blame, or whether the parents simply underfed their kids. At [...]
By admin -- 0 comments
Recent Comments