Parents Behaving Badly

Normally I’m not one to point a finger and blame somebody for a suicide, but I can’t help but feel the parents could have prevented this.

Taylor Jo Doherty, 14, was ridiculed by her classmates for being bisexual.

When she confided in her mother and father about her bisexuality, they disowned her and kicked her out.

Taylor left class, went to get a gun and shot herself.

One of the roles of being a parent is to be there when things get rough for your kids. Not to kick them out on the street.

A Detroit woman was arrested and her FIVE kids placed in custody after she arrived at a hotel with her 7-year-old daughter, a duffel bag full of sex toys and dresses for the little girl.

The woman was prepared to offer her daughter “for pornographic photos and anything else that was available if the price was right,” Sheriff Warren Evans said.

Police had setup a sting operation in order to capture this woman after suspecting her of distributing child pornography. Though what they found turned out to be much more disturbing.

It’s unclear if this is the first time she has involved any of her children in this. My instincts tell me yes.

These kids are all going to need some serious life long therapy. We’re all hoping she’s going away for a very long time.

Some mystery mom has been running around abandoning her newborns…immediately getting pregnant and abandoning her baby again. She has now done this three times, each new one 11 months apart from the previous.

The frist newborn was found on a park bench. The second was found in the back of a parked pickup truck. The third, unfortunately, was not found in time and died of exposure. All three were within two blocks of eachother.

The police are baffled as to who this could be and have been asking around the community about a girl with 3 pregnancies and no children.

It seems odd, in a town where everyone knows eachother, there isn’t a single soul that knows who is doing this.

Come on people! We’ve gotta find this woman and get her spayed!

UPDATE: Joseph and Sonya Smith of Marietta, Ga., were sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison in the beating death of their eight-year-old son, Josef. Josef died after he was locked in a wooden and wicker box.

Joseph admitted to hitting his son, and justified it saying that his son had behavioral issues. He also claimed that he son was “Legion, soldier of the devil.” Evidence showed that he was beat with glue sticks. Josef was also locked in a closet and forced to pray to Jesus.

When the superior court judge read the couple their sentence, he told them that what they did should be punishable to the fullest extent of the law – a life sentence plus additional time. 

The Smiths are members of the Remnant Fellowship Church. Former Remnant members say the the church supported the use of corporal punishment as a way to discipline children. However, police testified that they could not find any link between the boy’s death and the church.

Ever get the feeling that the Smiths used their church’s teachings as a justification to beat the crap out of their boy? I’m sure they’ll find lots of time in prison to pray about what they did to Josef.