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Police: Mother leaves infant in car for 45 minutes on hot day:

Woman saves baby locked in hot car:

22-year-old Starkiya Jones of Charlotte, NC has been charged with misdemeanor child abuse after leaving her 2-month-old baby in her locked car while she spent 45 minutes in Wal-Mart.

A passerby tried to break the window of the car and then got the attention of firefighters that were across the street. The passerby said that all took place within a span of 25 minutes.

When Jones returned to her car she claimed that she had only been in the store 10 minutes.

Luckily the child was only dehydrated and was released to the father.

Now as most of you know I live in Charlotte. It’s been really fucking hot lately. My AC is broke so I know just exactly how much the heat can effect someone. I almost passed out yesterday just from getting the door for the pizza guy and I’m a 41-year-old man.

Since the heat index has been past 100F it’s only a miracle that this child wasn’t killed.

To make matters worse Jones has gone on local TV trying to defend herself saying that she was only in the store for 20 minutes.

10, 20 or 45 minutes, it doesn’t fucking matter how long it was if you leave your kid in 100 fucking degree weather in a car in a Wal-Mart fucking parking lot. You say that angels were looking out for you and your daughter. You’re only half right. They obviously needed to look out for your daughter because of you.

Thanks to my lovely and talented wife Jade for the tip,

4-year-old girl in Johnston County a possible torture victim:

Man accused in girl’s abuse has record:

21-year-old Jonathan Douglas Richardson of Smithfield, NC has been arrested in the torturing of his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter.

He took the girl to the hospital Friday night claiming that the girl had “fallen out of bed”. Like I’m sure they haven’t heard that before. The girl had severe head trauma, cuts and bruises all over her body and evidence of sexual abuse. Polic e in Johnston County are saying it’s the worse case of child abuse they’ve ever seen.

I’m sure you’re asking where was the mother. She was in New Mexico training for the Army Reserves. So while she was training to defend our country Richardson was allegedly torturing her daughter.

Then again she had only known Richardson for 6 months and the baby daddy is in jail on drug trafficking charges. Richardson himself has a previous record for assaulting a female.

The living conditions weren’t so great either as they were living in a barn owned by Richardsons’ grandparents that only had an air mattress and no running water.

While the ultimate responsibility of what happened to this girl lies with Richardson, some mothers do need to find better boyfriends.

Shopper Calls 911 After Finding Children Alone In Car:

2 children found in hot car; mom arrested:

From what I understand today is the first day of summer. For those of us living in North Carolina the first day of summer is a relative term since it’s been in the 90s (F) for the past week or so.

So you would think someone who lives in North Carolina would realize how hot it could get in a car. That’s what we get for thinking.

26-year-old Alison Novinc Matthews of Gastonia, NC was arrested this past Saturday for leaving her kids, 4 and 2, in the car while she went shopping at Target. For those of you not local to the Charlotte, NC area Gastonia is a redneck suburb of Charlotte. It’s also known as G-Town or the Gashouse.

She claims that she was only in the store for 10 minutes but police say that the surveillance footage shows that she was in the store for 30. She also claims according to police that her kids were asleep when she pulled into Target and didn’t want to wake them. Right.

I know how hot it was here this past weekend. Even with the windows slightly cracked the kids must have been roasting. Luckily they were spotted in time before any damage could be done.

Whenever I post one of these stories I always would like to know what the hell was so important in the store that you needed to leave your kids in the car for. Or did you just not want to be bothered while you browsed for tube tops, overalls, and pit bull leashes.

Mother charged in daughter’s murder, nephew’s incest:

Mother arrested in daughter’s murder:

Police in Charlotte, NC, known locally as CMPD, are keeping their lips sealed about this case but the information that has been released so far is disturbing nonetheless.

47-year-old Dawn Michelle Ward has been charged in connection with the murder of her 23-year-old daughter Brittini Ward. Brittini Ward is alleged to have been raped and killed by her 24-year-old cousin Derek Ward. There has been no motive or cause of death released so far.

However Dawn Ward has been charged not only with murder and accessory after the fact but she’s also been charged with incest with her nephew, aka Brittini’s alleged killer Derek Ward.

All 3 of them lived in the same residence. That would lead me to believe that maybe Brittini found out about their disgusting affair and may have threatened to reveal it however that is only a supposition.

Mother charged after toddlers killed in fire:

Mother of dead children had been charged before:

This is how bad it is for me working at ‘The Sweatshop’. I live in Charlotte but since I work second shift I had to hear this story from someone who doesn’t even live around here. At least I don’t think she does. If she does Jade and myself will have to get together for a beer.

Anyway, 26-year-old Orgal Paulette Opata of Charlotte, NC left four of her children home alone. No word yet on what the reason was she left the house but that’s neither here nor there. What is here and there is that the kids were left home alone with a kerosene heater.

I’ve never been a big fan of kerosene heaters. Personally I think their two dangerous to keep in a house. I just think they’re bombs waiting to go off but that’s just me. However even if I did have one in the house you would have to be potentially brain dead to leave one running in the house with four unsupervised children.

Neighbors were able to save two of the children but Josiah Hawthorne, 2, and Gabriel Hawthorne, 14 months, were unable to be rescued.

Opata has been charged with murder and was previously charged back in October for leaving kids home alone.

And as a public service here are some tips on using a kerosene heater safely.

You’ll notice it says do not let children operate it.

Thanks to Bridget for the tip.

Conway father charged in baby’s death:

26-year-old Jermaine Obrian Freeman of Conway, NC has been charged in the blunt force trauma death of his 13-month-old daughter Khisha Lachelle Freeman. He is being held without bond.

Thanks to Mika for the tip.

I rarely do missing child stories for a bunch of reason. The first is they’re not my style. The second is I find them to be very tabloidish, thank you very much Nancy Grace. And lastly and most importantly because there are a plethora of blogs that cover them better than I ever could. That doesn’t mean I don’t care about them.

Living in North Carolina I couldn’t help be affected by the story of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis missing from Fayetteville. With all the media attention, the pictures of her from the motel and the arrests of her mother, Nicole Davis and Mario Andrette McNeill I thought to myself that this time the victim would be found alive. As I’m sure most of you know by now that wasn’t the case.

I received a slew of tips from everybody and thank you for that. However I wanted to share one particular e-mail I received from a reader by the name of Dawn who also lives in North Carolina. She put it better than I ever could.

I am sure you know, as nearly all the world does now, but Shaniya Davis, who you mentioned a day or so past, was found dead today. I live in this small town, Sanford NC, and that baby’s body was found just over a mile from my home. Our community mourns for this child that we didn’t even know, but was left within our reach so callously. Hundreds of people from our community turned out to search for her, and in the end our hearts were broken. She was found dead, decomposing, next to a deer carcass, wearing only a tshirt.

Look at that fucker McNeill. Tell me you do not wish him a thousand brutal deaths, after he is dismembered, one small piece at a time. After the bastard admits to kidnapping her, he is scene smirking in his arrest photo.

May her mother rot in hell for eternity for this. We are supposed to give up our lives for our children. How can any mother ever understand, or look upon her with less than hate in their hearts, for selling this beautiful baby.

It is a sick, sick world we live in.

And unfortunately for the children there doesn’t seem to be any cure in the foreseeable future.

Man accused of circumcising sons with utility knife:

Man who circumcised sons found guilty:

Man On Trial, Charged With Circumcising Children:

One of my predecessors originally posted about this story here.

Now I’m of the opinion that male children should be circumcised. However it shouldn’t be done at home and it sure as hell shouldn’t be done with a utility knife.

Johnny Marlowe of Caldwell County, North Carolina didn’t care for hospitals (yet another Luddite) so he circumcised two of his 14 children at home with a utility knife. In one of the circumcisions his infant son bled for 11 hours.

Marlowe is an admitted polygamist who had his 14 children through his legal wife and another woman that lived with them. Not nly was he a child abuser but he was a spousal abuser as well beating his wife and denying her pre-natal care.

Marlowe is already serving a 1215 year sentence on kidnapping charges and was found guilty of abusing his sons. He’s looking at only a sentence of 120 days for the rogue circumcisions. That seems a little light to me.

Like I said I’m all for getting your boys circumcised and I highly recommend at. However leave it to the trained professionals especially those in the medical field as they are actually trained to perform these procedures.

Thanks to WickedWomyn for the tip.

Duke employee arrested on child sex charge:

42-year-old Frank Lombard of Durham, North Carolina has been arrested for allegedly offering his adopted 5-year-old son up for sex over the internet. Lombard is also associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke University and has been placed on unpaid leave.

An FBI informant allegedly saw Lombard online performing sex acts on an African-American child believed to be one of his adopted sons.

As an adoptee myself this next part really disgusts me to no end. The following is from a chat between Lombard and an undercover agent.

In the chat transcript, “F.L.” is asked how he got access to a child so young. “Adopted,” he replied, and said that the process was “not so hard … esp (sic) for a black boy.”

In the chat, “F.L.” told Palchak that abusing the child was “easier when he was too young to know what was happening and when he couldn’t talk …He had a little too much Benadryl. Was knocked out.”

So not only did Lombard adopt his kids for his own sick sexual fetishes but he also took advantage of the fact that there are an inordinate amount of black children waiting to be adopted into loving homes.

It’s a shame that this isn’t an executable offense because I would volunteer to throw the switch.

Rot in hell scumbag

Mom accused of repeatedly burning daughter with hot iron:

Fayetteville mother charged with burning her daughter:

33-year-old Nia Michelle Brooks of Fayetteville, NC (or as it’s referred to Fayette Nam) is accused of burning her partially blind and mildly retarded 11-year-old daughter with an iron. Police allege that Brooks burnt the girl with a hot iron on her arms and legs. Police say the girl was burnt because she didn’t iron her Easter dress correctly. Brooks said the iron fell on the girl. Yeah right, four times maybe.

To try and hide her crime Brooks allegedly sent the girl to school in coats, long sleeve shirts and long pants. If you’ve ever experienced a Carolina summer you know that’s pretty much abuse in itself.

And oh yeah, as mentioned in the title Brooks has a bachelor’s degree in social work. Whatever college she got it from should demand it back. And again no matter how smart you think you are hospitals, police and sometimes schools know more than you do. You can’t hid abuse from them.

Thanks to Luci and Angela for the tips.