Bad Breeders

Cathy sent us this tip about a couple of winners from North Carolina who tried to off their three month old. Again….WHY would anyone plot the murder of an infant? After looking at their pictures, I may have come up with the answer…..if the baby is a result of his DNA infecting her DNA, they may have decided that the baby was too ugly to live. Any offspring of the two of them would have to be pretty hideous! But, still, it’s just a baby! And ALL babies are valuable, lovable people.

It seems that William Dean Plaster Jr., and Shannon Fortenberry, both 37, have been arrested for causing grievous bodily harm to their 3 month old son, William Dean Plaster III. The baby was taken to a local hospital on April 22, and was airlifted from there to Wake Forest Medical Center. He had multiple broken bones, and severe head trauma which resulted in retinal hemorrhaging, and bleeding on the brain. The doctors say this will leave little Will with permanent impairment. The doctors also say that the injuries were intentionally inflicted.

Both of the disgusting losers have been charged with attempted first degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, felony child abuse, and child abuse inflicting serious injury. Both are being held on a 10 million dollar bond. Yes, you read it right – 10 MILLION dollars!!!!!! Finally! A judge who has balls enough to keep animals like these behind bars until trial. Good job, judge!

The two bipedal animals are accused of abusing William between Jan. 9 and
April 22 of this year. I’m guessing Jan. 9 is either his birthday or the day he was sent home from the hospital (3 days old?). Trench…doesn’t NC have a safe haven law? Why didn’t these people just take him to a fire station, or better yet, just walk away from the hospital without him? I’m sure there are plenty of people who would love to have a son. I’d be happy to take him myself – my son could use a brother, since he only has sisters to play with now…a LOT of sisters….

Karen would take him, too, I’m sure…as would many of the other women who visit us here at BB. I hope these DNA donors are locked away for life, and never get to even see a picture of this sweet baby again. And I hope they play recordings of a baby crying for the duration of their sentences, just to make them crazy – oh, wait…they already ARE crazy. Well, just to irritate them, then. Added punishment – since I’m pretty sure at least one of them will use the “he was crying” defense. Y’all let me know how that works out for you, hmmm?

Read about it here, here, and here.

Omaha Father Who Ditched Nine Kids Via Safe Haven Law Has Twins on the Way:

You remember the Staton 9 don’t you? In case you don’t they were the 9 children dropped of in Nebraska when they had their wacky safe haven law. At the trime their father dropped them off at a safe haven because his wife had passed away and claimed that he could no longer care for his children.

Well now he’s expecting twins with his new girlfriend. I guess this clown never heard of a condom, or personal responsibility.

A Not-So-Safe Haven:

I wonder how long it took them to come up with that headline.

Anyway, this is an article from Newsweek about what’s happened in Nebraska since they changed their safe haven law to only include children up to 30 days old.

I’d like you to read the article and offer your opinion. Are some of these mothers too quick to in depending on the government to help them out or do they have legitimate concerns?

Thanks to Stormey for the tip.

Parents of abandoned newborn taken into custody:

21-year-old Harold Vermal O’Neal and an unidentified 17-year-old mother were arrested for leaving their newborn at a fire station. The problem was they left the newborn outside wrapped in a towel inside of a diaper box. When the baby was discovered its body temperature was at 88 degrees.

South Carolina’s safe haven law states that a baby can be left at a fire station but someone has to take physical custody of the baby.

I do lay partial blame on the parents for not being smart enough to realize that the baby could have died due to exposure but the safe haven laws from state to state are so varying it’s hard for anyone to that wants to safely give their baby to a safe haven to know what their states procedure is.

A federal safe haven law is needed and needed badly.

California ‘haven’ youth in home state:

The 14-year-old from Davis, California who was dropped off by his foster Breeder in Nebraska is returning to California.

He’s now under the custody of his local social services department. That makes me wonder if his foster Breeder actually tried to find assistance within her community or was driving 1,170 miles to Nebraska her first choice.

Yolo Mom Who Abandoned Boy In Nebraska Speaks Out:

The Breeder who did drive the 1,170 miles from California to Nebraska is trying to defend her actions in the media.

The 14-year-old was her foster child who she’s had since he was 4. According to her recently he had gotten in to drugs, cigarettes, alcohol and stealing. She also says that he threatened her and her family with knives and was thrown out of a boys home for statutory rape. All of this sounds oddly familiar. How can a 14-year-old be charged with statutory rape?

She claims she tried to get police to arrest him but they told her that juvenile hall was full.

So what do you think dear readers? Legitimate use of Nebraska’s old safe haven laws or cop out?

Safe Haven Child Dropped Off Before Change:

A Breeder from Yolo, County, California was able to sneak in under the buzzer and dump off a 14-year-old boy at a Kimball, Nebraska hospital. For those of you keeping score that’s 1,170 miles if traveled by car.

The Breeder who dropped him just barely made it in before the new law limiting safe haven drop offs to under 30 days old. The boy was dropped of on Friday and the new law went into effect Saturday at Midnight.

Again I say if these Breeders put half the effort into raising their kids that they did in dumping them off maybe they wouldn’t have had a problem.

Desperate Mom: I May Use Safe Haven For My Son:

I apologize for being behind on the news. This article came out Thursday and it talks about a Nebraska mother who was so desperate with what to do with her 13-year-old son that she was thinking about dropping him off at a safe haven.

In the article the woman states that her son beat up a handicapped student, steals,smokes pot, beats up siblings, and could possibly be sexually assaulting another child.

Personally I think that this kid has gone beyond safe haven and needs a stay at least in juvenile correction. But let me ask you the reader, do you think this woman dropped the ball somewhere along the line and what should she do?

Christina from b5′s own SoloMother has a great post up about her thoughts on safe haven laws.

I couldn’t agree with her more. Go read it now heathen dogs. (I use that as a term of affection by the way)

30-day age limit on haven law advances in Legislature:

It seems that the Nebraska Legislature is leaning towards a 30-day limit for their new and improved safe haven law. This is expected to be law come Friday.

There were actually some people who wanted the law to remain wide open. The law was originally designed to prevent baby dumping but the way it was written Nebraska it led to lazy parenting in my opinion.