Mother of the Year Winner

[ls317]

An Ypsilanti woman is accused of leaving her 6-year-old foster son on the side of a New York road.
An Erie County Sheriff's Department deputy was patrolling Grand Island Boulevard in Grand Island, N.Y., at about 6 p.m. Sunday when he discovered a small boy running alone down the side of a busy highway, according to the sheriff's department. The child was crying and visibly upset, and was being followed by two concerned citizens, the sheriff's department said.

But wait it gets better!



http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/4885904/detail.html

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. How cruel!

That poor child. :cry:

[Shoeempress]

2. Damn, that is one heartless b%#$ch.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Horrible! Perhaps the award for MOY could be shared with this woman

Child found dead inside submerged car

By Samantha Yale
Sentinel Reporter

A Madera woman is accused of driving a vehicle while intoxicated, crashing her car into a canal, and then not mentioning to authorities until later that a 6-year-old boy was in the car.

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Pierce said Avery was driving home from the Central Coast when she crashed. Her car ran off the road, struck a guard rail, overturned and came to rest upside down in the canal.

Avery then climbed out of the car, leaving the boy in the front passenger seat, said the CHP.

The CHP initially received a call of a drenched woman in the roadway. Avery was able to hail a ride before emergency crews arrived, however.

more...
http://www.hanfordsentinel.com/articles/2005/08/22/news/daily01.txt

[ls317]

4. Hey

You know both of them will be roomates sharing a lakeside condo.... On the burning lake of hell

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. There's a lake in Hell?

Damn! Bet the real estate is cheap, especially judging by the self-centered attitudes of these two women that kids are throw-aways.

[mcscajun]

5. That's the second one this month...

...the previous case I read about (here) was a woman who abandoned her child on the Beltway in the D.C. area! The child survived, thankfully.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. And let's not forget the newborn dumped in a trash can in Georgia

Charges filed in abandoned newborn case

By BILL MONTGOMERY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/17/05
A woman who gave birth in a Macon Wal-Mart bathroom was charged with aggravated assault and first-degree child cruelty, Bibb County District Attorney Howard Simms said Tuesday evening.

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The baby girl is listed in serious condition at the Medical Center of Central Georgia.

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The full-term infant was found by three Wal-Mart employees around 12:30 p.m. Sunday in a bathroom toilet, covered in trash and toilet paper, said Bibb County Sheriff's spokesman Capt. David Davis.

A customer started CPR until a fire department worker arrived and revived the infant, Davis added.

more...
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0805/17baby.html

[mcscajun]

9. Didn't forget her...I was being specific.

About women abandoning children on highways.

There are all too many horror stories about abandoned newborns, toddlers, abused children of every description.

And yet there are people even on DU who think everyone deep down wants children.

A) they don't.
B) we're not all cut out to be parents. Articles like these and many others prove it every week.

[Pithlet]

12. Where are the people on DU who think that?

I mean, I guess it's possible. I've just never seen it.

[mcscajun]

13. There was a thread yesterday on choosing to be childless

and there were one or two who just seemd to have the "Wait and see, you'll change your mind" approach. They couldn't seem to fathom the genuineness of a younger person who's already made up their mind that they are not cut out to be a parent.

More than that, I cannot say.

[Pithlet]

14. But, that's not what they said.

I'm not going to continue the thread here, however.

[progressivebydesign]

8. Wait. She's a foster Mom with abuse complaints already????

WTF? WHy does she still have that child in her home?? Unless there's a mistake in the article, she was a foster mom, which means the child has been placed with her (for money), after enduring god-knows-what already in his young life. So.. they have complaints about her already and the kid was still there. Perhaps it was a blessing that she did something so blatantly wrong. Unlike a natural parent, it would be a hell of a lot easier to remove this kid from her care, forever.

[elehhhhna]

10. Foster farming is getting to be a big business.

[OhioChick]

11. Yes................

From what I've been told..........much money to be made. It's ashame.