Mother beating child: Link, a few posts down

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
yes, and the child will be better off growing up in foster care, it is such a wonderful thing to put kids into state custody , to be shuttled from home to home, nobody to love them

well hopefully they can find a home for the child. unfortunately it sounds like the child is screwed either way... they'll either be emotionally scarred from getting wwf beatdown all the time from some psycho excuse of a mom or they'll be emotionally scarred from going through foster homes.

 

[Dragnov]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
yes, and the child will be better off growing up in foster care, it is such a wonderful thing to put kids into state custody , to be shuttled from home to home, nobody to love them

Hmmm, better than growing up with an abusive mother fearing for our life constantly. I can feel the love resonating from that woman with every punch.

I have Korean parents. Known for their short temper and abusive methods... I thank my parents for many things, but I don't think I can ever forgive them (not that they felt they did anything wrong).

 

[Murphyrulez]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
yes, and the child will be better off growing up in foster care, it is such a wonderful thing to put kids into state custody , to be shuttled from home to home, nobody to love them

You make me ill.

You really want that child to be loved like that? You think that love is better than the love she could have from a foster home? And before you go off on how some foster homes are messed up, at least we KNOW how messed up her mother is.

If you would accept that abuse as a form of love, you are one sick person...

 

[MacBaine]

Heard on the radio that she will get up to 3 years in jail.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: TallGeese
Some interesting tidbits about the woman:

Toogood grew up as part of a group of Texas-based Irish Travellers, itinerant laborers who often make their living with home-improvement and business-repair work, such as paving, painting and roofing

Professional con artists actually. "Travellers" and a history of theft and fraud have been well-documented.

Mishawaka authorities said they had no indication Toogood has ever been accused of abuse. However, they said she did have a history of retail store fraud.

Common for female "Travellers."

In May, Fort Worth police issued another warrant for Gorman's arrest after she failed to appear in court to face theft charges stemming from an alleged March 27 shoplifting incident at a Kohl's store there.

KIM: This incident happened after leaving a Kohl's store.

The episode happened after the woman left the store angry over being refused a cash refund, authorities said.

OK...here's what I think happened.

The women--the mother and her sister--were trying to run a scam...prolly trying to return some shoplifted stuff. The 4 year old may have even been used as part of it...dunno. But in some way the little girl prolly flummoxed the deal. Mother takes it out on her for blowing the scam, just like she herself was prolly "trained" to become a con artist.

yeah after reading the article I got that sort of feeling, there's a whole context for this incident.

I hope the police look into what exactly she was trying to do right before the beating.

Man, I didn't realize there's an entire subculture that revolved around ripping off retail stores. :disgust: