Two kids given $5 each and told by mom to "pack and leave" .

[Blue-Jay]

MARSHFIELD, Mo. -- A mother and her live-in boyfriend are charged with child endangerment after investigators say they kicked her two kids out of the house. The investigation began after a passerby found a 12-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister walking along Highway CC near Niangua.

The kids were dragging suitcases, shopping bags and garbage bags full of clothing. They were about a quarter of a mile from their home, scared, crying and hungry.

"Thank the good Lord this was someone that wasn't going to hurt children," said Webster County Prosecuting Attorney Cynthia Black, praising the man who picked up the kids.


Police say the children said their mom, Roxanna Osborne, woke them up and told them to pack and leave immediately. The kids say their mother gave them $5 and went back to sleep.

http://www.ky3.com/newsdetailed.asp?id=8227

[enigmatic]

1. Those poor kids..

God, what I'd like to do to those sack of shit Mother and Boyfriend..

[electricmonk]

2. Just when you think

Humans couldn't suck any worse another batch come along to prove you wrong.

[auntAgonist]

3. omg .. heartbreaking

:cry:

those poor little guys :(

[nickgutierrez]

4. A shining example of bad parenting.

And then the drug problems referred to in the link... ugh. What a mess.

[aquaman]

5. I do not believe in the death penalty....

But am tempted on this one.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. Stuff like this really sickens me!

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[sasquatch]

8. Ahh...Red State values: the backbone of America

:eyes:

[Redstone]

10. Ain't you got that right...

you can just picture the trailer park, with the yellow "support out troops" ribbons next to each, door, can't you?

I can.

Redstone

[sasquatch]

13. I actually see a confederate flag in the front of the trailer-

and a meth lab in the back.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. You are pretty darn close

Check out the picture at the link.

[bertha katzenengel]

24. It's disgusting, and not limited to Red States.

This is just about how I grew up in Southern California.

[MountainLaurel]

39. What came to my mind

Was SoCal too: My ex-boyfriend's heroin junkie mother sending him to live with the theoretically biological father who had raped her older two children, because her 19-yo boyfriend (she was in her mid 40s at the time) wanted to party.

[sasquatch]

40. Yeah but David tells us that democrats are bad parents and stuff like that

While the people in the Red States are superier in rearing children.
:eyes:

[gardenista]

9. Those poor children

:cry:

Between this and the pit bull thing...

Both mothers are probably mentally ill.

I hope those kids get the help they need and can be placed together in a safe home.

[evlbstrd]

12. Unfortunately, foster care rarely places siblings together.

And, at least in my state, foster care sucks.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Did you notice that Marshfield

is in Matt Blunt's home territory?

[evlbstrd]

18. No, but it doesn't surprise me.

Thanks for the tip!

[xmas74]

35. First thing that I noticed.

I'm still trying to get the link to work.

Blunt sucks-need I say more?

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. Blunt Sucks

I want that on a bumper sticker LOL

[xmas74]

45. I would like to add

that Ashcroft swallows. Put that on a bumper sticker and I will buy them in bulk!

[proud2BlibKansan]

46. LOL

I smell a market for these.

[xmas74]

48. Me!

[Duncan Grant]

11. Unbelievable.

I'm speechless. :cry:

[NMMNG]

15. Whew!

At least those children weren't exposed to the deprived, deplorable upbringing that they would have had with gay parents!:sarcasm:

[alittlelark]

17. No kidding.... THE HORROR!!!!

[warrens]

19. OMFG

This is so heartbreaking. I'm getting my daughter back because her mother can't deal, but she would never do that to her daughter. Jesus.

[lpbk2713]

20. Some lowlifes just don't deserve kids.

The kids also said they are afraid that, if their mother and her boyfriend get sent to jail, she will kill them.

The "mother" (I use the word generically) should get her way and never get to see these kids again.

[Zuni]

28. The "mother"

should be put away for a long, long, long time

[hyphenate]

21. Well, darn

at least she didn't kill them outright like Susan Smith or Andrea Yates, huh :sarcasm: Instead, she sent them packing and on their way to possibly a very slow and horrible death instead. Nice lady.

[MrScorpio]

22. Crank heads

Yeah, that's the ticket

[Maestro]

23. Sometimes

my left leaning desires to rehabilitate offenders is stretched to its limit.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

30. Except that this mother is strung out on drugs and probably

has been in several abusive relationships. Getting her off the drugs WILL change her behavior. The boyfriend apparently has anger issues. The disgusting thing is we don't rehabilitate and demand it from people. We solely punish..then these people end up either dead or in fundy churches where they claim "The LORD" got them off drugs but they never deal with the underlying esteem issues and then let a church dominate and control them as opposed to an abusive boyfriend.

[Maestro]

47. I wholeheartedly agree

but it is just hard to take sometimes. I do agree. Our penal system is for punishment not rehabilitation not matter what "they" may say.

[Mutley]

25. I hope that "mother" never gets to see her kids again

EVER!

[gizmo1979]

26. Just so so so sad.

Here I'm trying to find ways to keep my 18 year old around more and these people are throwing theirs away.

[Deja Q]

27. And incidents like this will only get worse as the economy does.

WHen there are no resources, there are no values. People are out for themselves only. We do not operate as a society, we operate as individuals: Dog eat dog. The pit bulls soon to turn the poodles and chihuahuas into breakfast so that they can survive for whatever life dishes out in the coming months.

Or that's how I observed life as we have made of it.

[catzies]

33. Hmm, you gave me pause for thought with your first statement.

"When there are no resources, there are no values."

I'm going to chew on that awhile. I think you're onto something.

[JVS]

37. "Grub first, then morals"-Brecht

Or in the original German, "Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral"

[I Have A Dream]

42. Good points. n/t

[Zuni]

29. The stepfather was a real upstanding character, wasn't he

besides using heroin or crank infront of the kids and torturing them, this angelic character was arrested for, and I quote:

"This is the second time in a little more than a year that Young has been charged with child endangerment. He was arrested and pleaded guilty in May 2004 for using a chainsaw to smash the windows of a van belonging to the woman who was then his girlfriend -- while her three children were inside."

[salin]

31. can't get the link to work

so disturbing - wanted to read the details - what even leads a person to think (guess that would be a clue) that there would be no repercussions for this - what gives someone this idea?

Poor kids - hard to see anygood for them in the near future - foster care followed by "reunification"? Grrrrrrrr.

[I Have A Dream]

43. It happens more than people think.

There's an organization called Covenant House that helps "runaway" kids who often aren't runaways at all but are actually kicked out. The stories are really sad.

[Old_Fart]

32. I hope they don't send the kids to their grandparents house

Hopefully not to the mothers parents house or the cycle of abuse might continue.

[TBreeze]

34. heartbreaking

:cry:

[catmandu57]

36. Down in deep red Missouri

We were just down there last month, we saw billboards extolling good ole gw*, and more of those damn w stickers than I want to remember.
The sad thing is babyface blunt has raped the social services here, and everyone involved in this mess is going to be fucked, with the possible exception of the abusing boyfriend. He'll go to jail, get three hots ands a cot, all of his medical needs met, he'll be shitting in tall cotton.
While the kids will get shuffled off to abusive home after abusive home, until they hit 18.
This just sucks big green ones.

[jpgray]

38. Good thing they didn't make it to this house:

[GreenPartyVoter]

44. OMG Hansel and gretel in real life