Renee Terrell “Adored Her Children”, Says Her “Surrogate Mother”
How many of you are old enough to remember those Saturday Night Live skits with Eddie Murphy as the adult Buckwheat? I’m thinking in particular of the “Buckwheat Has Been Shot” meme, where a man named John David Stutts was arrested for Buckwheat’s assassination. The news reporters in the skits went to Stutts’ hometown and interviewed his friends and neighbors, who said he was a wonderful, charitable kid. Then the reporter would ask, “Did you think he killed Buckwheat?”, and they’d all reply, “Oh yes, definitely.” The reporter even obtained a copy of Stutts’ yearbook, in which he was voted “Man Most Likely to Shoot Buckwheat”.
That’s all I can think about while reading this story of Betty Hartley of Evansville, Kentucky. Hartley was a friend of Renee Terrell, the mother implicated in the death of social services worker Boni Frederick. While Hartley admits that Terrell was troubled and may have been “depressed”, she also gushes about how Renee “loved” her baby, and “adored” all of her kids. “She loved that child. She sang to it and read to and talked to it when she was pregnant. For months she saved her breast milk and meticulously froze it to save for him. She cared about its health.” And then there’s this puketastic statement: “Renee just had a gift for relating to children. She truly adored her children.“
Really, Mrs. Hartley? If she loved her children so much, why had she already lost two of them to social services? Why was her current child, who showed signed of neglect, about to be carted away? Why did she keep having MORE kids, even though it was clear she couldn’t care for the two she had already lost? Was it all just a vast conspiracy perpetrated by the state, as Terrell herself seems to maintain?
In another thread on PBB, Kate from BabyLune urged people to be aware of their neighbors, and be on the alert for signs that a child near you is being mistreated. Renee Terrell was clearly not in a fit state of mind. For whatever reason, she clearly was not a fit mother. If Terrell is the standard of “good parenting”, how the hell are we supposed to recognize the BAD ones?
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2 opinions for Renee Terrell “Adored Her Children”, Says Her “Surrogate Mother”
mandy
Oct 27, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Killing an old woman, who was there from the state to take their baby because they were NEGLECTING it, is the root of my argument that people need sanity papers to prove they can reproduce responsibly and be good parents. These 2 FAILED. Now they need to be sterilized then jailed for life.
People who adopt have to have their lives looked into very thoroughly by the state and/or country. So why can’t we do this with people who choose to pro-create? Would’ve kept this baby and others like her out of the hands of two white trash psychos. Period!
TUBES TIED! TUBES TIED! TUBES TIED! TUBES TIED!
Nandi
Oct 30, 2006 at 8:52 pm
I can not shake the death of Boni Hendericks, I guess I am still pissed off about it. And then to find out she was beaten with a frying pan makes me pissed. And then I am sad for I cannot imagine what she felt, and I wonder how long she suffered? Terrell has no idea what she has done, but then again yes she does, for the demoness would kill the one who protects those she preys upon.
Nandi
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