Parents Behaving Badly

Pa. dad charged in infant daughter’s shaking death:

24-year-old Vincent Davis of Erie, Pa. kicked his family’s dog to death after it crapped on the floor. But he wasn’t done there. He then shook his 5-month-old daughter to death because she was crying.

As usual in these cases he tried lying to police by saying that he dropped her while changing his diaper. I wonder what his excuse for the dog was. That he dropped his shoe on the dog repeatedly until it died accidentally?

How much anger can one man possibly have? Scratch that. He’s obviously not a man but a coward of the highest order.

I’ve been angry enough in my life to punch various inanimate objects resulting in the breaking of said object or my hand but I can’t understand how someone can be angry enough to kill a baby like that.

Rot in hell scumbag.

Thanks to LadyJade for the tip.

I’m always on the lookout for Colorado stories. But when the arresting officer is the dad of your son’s classmate? Well, let’s just say this is literally too close to home. Kelly Lynn McGrew, 36, was arrested by Dacono, Colo. police for supplying pot to her three teenage children and two of their friends. One of the children told a Frederick High School official that Kelly was sharing drugs with them.

Mom wasn’t the only one partying with the youngsters. The children’s father, Claude McGrew, 48, was smoking with them, too. Police have charged him on suspicion of misdemeanor drug use and child abuse. Kelly McGrew was arrested on five counts of misdemeanor child abuse and five felony counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She’s being held in the Weld County Jail. The kids ages 15, 16, and 17 were taken into protective custody by Weld County Social Services.

Colorado parents just love to get high with their kids and their friends. Last December, Suzanne Moore of Erie, Colo. got to two years in prison for giving marijuana to her teenage son and four other teenagers. Then there’s “Cool Mom” Silvia Johnson of Arvada, Colo. who got to 30 years in prison for contributing to the delinquency of minors, sexual assault, and violating a restraining order. Johnson, 41, held weekly parties and provided pot, meth and alcohol to eight boys. She had sex with five of them. It was such a big story that the Smoking Gun posted the affadavit, and newspapers as far away as Australia picked up on it.

I guess we’re called the Mile High state for a reason.

After reading a certain number of these stories about bad parents, you begin to tire of law enforcement officials who exclaim that they’ve “never seen anything like this” when it comes to the latest parental crime. Which isn’t their fault. I’m sure the current crime is the most horrid thing they’ve ever seen. And, hey – they’re actuallly witnessing the aftermath of these crimes; I’m just scribbling about them. That said, I share the shocked awe of the district attorney who’s “never seen anything like” Chytoria Graham of Erie, Pennsylvania. The 27-year-old mother stands accused of hitting her boyfriend…with her baby. The child suffered serious injuries as a result of the assault. Graham is now being held on a trifecta of charges, and has had her other four children taken into custody by the state.

Jesus, people, what does God have to do – put a tag on every baby’s ear that declares “WARNING: Not to be used as a weapon”?