Tot Beaten to Death at Md. Child-Care Home (WP)

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Tot Beaten to Death at Md. Child-Care Home

By Jamie Stockwell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 7, 2004; Page B01


A 1-year-old boy who died Wednesday was the victim of a beating at the home of a child-care provider in Upper Marlboro, authorities said yesterday.

Prince George's County police said Kevin A. Willis, one of three children who stayed at the Upper Marlboro house during the day, lost consciousness Wednesday afternoon while in the care of a licensed child-care provider, whom authorities declined to identify.

Police said the boy was taken by ambulance from the house, in the 17000 block of Fairway View Lane, to Bowie Health Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m.

The Maryland medical examiner's office in Baltimore ruled the death a homicide, authorities said. Although police declined to publicly disclose the manner of death, three law enforcement sources said the medical examiner's office found that Willis suffered "blunt force trauma" from a beating.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20282-2004Feb6.html

Welcome to george bush*'s Amerikkka.....

[MountainLaurel]

1. Again

What does this have to do with Bush? Do you think that kids didn't die this way before he took over?

[Rollins]

2. With proper funding this person may have been screened thoroughly and

possibly prevented from becoming licensed. What do I know all I am is a state worker.
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3. bush* has cut out all money to regulated day care programs, bush*

has actually cut day-care out all together, while ordering young mothers to work...there is no medical care, food, housing, counseling, family support services, family planning services left at all here in OUR Nation's Capital...

the full brunt of bush* social policies for the past 3 years have hit very hard on the most vulnerable amoungst us...

if you want to see the horror of bush* social policies...come to OUR Nation's Capital...it's gotten much much worse with bush* NO JOB recovery....actual human beings, sick and mentally ill, lay all over the streets of OUR Nation's Capital...

notice that the dying child was not taken to a hospital....likely because TWO major hospitals were CLOSED in the last two years in OUR Nation's Capital, right in front of bush* and health care is down to whatever you can scrounge up in your neighborhood 'clinic'...even if you have insurance/money, emergency room care is a LONG LONG LONG wait in the DC Metro area under the bush* healthcare program called "let them DIE"....

[MountainLaurel]

4. Funny,

I didn't realize that the homeless in DC all moved in along with the bunch from Texas -- how interesting.

Trust me, I've lived in DC 10 years. I've seen the homeless on the streets from SE to the Smithsonian Metro. I've even worked in a couple shelters full of families who can't afford the rent on a 1-bedroom apartment. And I can tell you this problem didn't begin with the Bush (though, I'd like to talk to Reagan about that whole deinstitutionalization plan), and I'm gonna guess it won't end with him either.

It's going to take more than a Democrat in the White House (or a slew of them in the Capitol) to solve this crisis. It's going to take Americans opening their eyes to the misery around them, getting off their asses and out of the church pew, and actually caring for the poor, and those in need.

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5. but you list yourself as living in 'northern Virginia' ?, far away from

the social issues of OUR Nation's Capital...in fact, a great place to recluse yourself from these issues....I'll bet you live in Loudon County.....

did you know that Arlington CLOSED the Catholic shelter for the homeless in Northern Virginia this year...and where do you think those 400 families moved to????

perhaps you never noticed, but the 'homeless' are NOT allowed on the Smithsonian property, because the 'tourists' are offended by bush* social policies, and the bush* guards make them move away....whoever you 'saw at the Smithsonian Metro', it wasn't the mothers/children/Veterans without homes...

many people can and do pretend that these social issues are NOT THERE and WALK ON BY...and make lots of excuses for the obvious failures of THREE years of bush* programs...