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Edited on Tue Nov-15-11 11:26 AM by AlbertCat
"In one case that horrified the nation, a trial got under way this week in a Houston courtroom over a 37-year-old housewife and former nurse who confessed to drowning her five children in June.
But Andrea Pia Yates is hardly alone.
On Wednesday, Adair Garcia, 30, stoked a barbecue grill in his living room, authorities say, elevating carbon monoxide to fatal levels. Five of his children, 2 to 10 years old, died. Police said Garcia was despondent over marital problems.
Last month, Oregon fugitive Christian Longo was captured in Mexico and returned to face murder charges in the slayings of his wife and three children.
The same month, Eric Crutchfield of North Carolina was sentenced to life for the first-degree murder of his 6-year-old daughter, shot point-blank in the back with a .22-caliber rifle, and the wounding of his young son. The children were shot during a weekend visit to Crutchfield's home.
In December, Socorro Caro, a doting mother in Ventura County, a church- going wife of a respected physician, was convicted of killing her three sons, who were shot while they slept.
Also in December, Marilyn Lemak, a suburban Chicago mother and former surgical nurse, was convicted of smothering her three young children with her bare hands.
With stunning regularity, parents fatally shake their children or drown them, suffocate them or set their home ablaze."
(from SFGate.com. An unfathomable crime -- parents who slay their kids Elizabeth Fernandez, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, February 23, 2002)
Clearly, heterosexuals should not be allowed to raise children.
On the two appologies...
If the radio host didn't even consider that he was connecting the two subjects... pedophilia and homosexuality... with the format of his show, then it just illustrates a problem that even thinking people fall into some kind of bogus meme that has vitality! THAT'S a big problem. Basically, it just not thinking things through.
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