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Parents Behaving Badly

Archive for the ‘child+abuse’ Category

May 11th, 2008

Two Four-Year-Old Cousins Abused By Moms and Locked in Closets for Weeks

In Kokomo, Indiana, Mary Deakyne, 4, and her cousin, Justin Leonard, 4, were abused daily by their mothers, who are sisters. The youngsters were bound and kept in a closet for weeks at a time. They were also bound with zip ties to door knobs and other household items to restrict their movements.
The children are being treated at […]

By Former Blogger -- 5 comments

May 10th, 2008

Crystal Rios Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse After Toddler Found Wandering in Snow

In Aztec, New Mexico, Crystal Rios, 22, plead guilty to child abuse. She was arrested earlier this year after her two-year-old son was found wandering in the snow wearing only just his diaper.
When police showed up they found that the boy and his eight-month-old sister had bite marks and bruises on their bodies. One of the children also had an untreated broken […]

By Former Blogger -- 5 comments

February 11th, 2008

Parents, please don’t circumcise your kids yourself.

Johnny Eric Marlowe’s two wives each gave birth to a boy.
Johnny, not liking hospitals decided to circumcise the two boys himself with a utility knife. He is now being charged with child abuse.
Marlowe is currently serving jail time on an unrelated charge. I suspect these new charges will extend his stay.
(thanks Jenn […]

By joelnet -- 21 comments

December 27th, 2005

Raw Food Parents Get 15 Years Probation for Neglect

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

October 4th, 2005

Father Dumps Dead Baby in Babysitter’s Backyard

Andre Madison thought he had a special babysitter. Unlike the rest of us, who have to physically take a baby out of a carseat and carry the child into a building, Andre was under the impression that he could just toss his daugher over a fence, into the babysitter’s yard, behind the shed, and […]

By Nicole -- 0 comments

September 16th, 2005

Spare the Rod: The “Wisdom” of Debi and Michael Pearl

Look at the couple to your right. I bet you’re thinking, “What a nice hippie couple. I bet they would encourage me to breastfeed for the first six years of my child’s life. They definitely look like they’re in favor of co-sleeping. I’d get parenting advice from them that I’d never […]

By Nicole -- 14 comments