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Just got that sort of fraud-y feeling. It may be that these kids shot the baby, but then I read that this woman lost another child to violence previously. How does lightning strike twice like that?

...if you haven't known tragedies like that. The only thing I see that really stands out at all is simply the extreme heinous nature of the crime. Everything about it, especially the most recent developments, really do seem to indicate the police caught the right guys.

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never have one child shot to death, let alone two in totally separate incidents. That's pretty fucking unusual.

...stab another boy and the boy wrestled the knife free from him and stabbed him to death with it. And that was years and years ago, and I don't recall reading what the boy's motivation for wanting to attack him was.

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I think they've just been in some bad circumstances.

tragedies that are not their fault.

both my sisters got hit by a drunk driver the following year.
Most people twisted themselves into pretzels blaming my Mom. Even (not so nice) family members.
People cannot accept how truly random some shit is. They need to point a finger every single time.

When nothing *real* can be blamed they ascribe it to a 'moral failing'.

I remember a friend who I thought was the smartest person I knew said the Kennedys "have a curse on them, like your family."
What a fucking idiot. And she was an atheist. Theists are usually worse.

Or so it struck me.

And I think you're right.

here at DU posting on this subject who is totally convinced the mother actually killed the baby. They get downright nasty when you disagree with them.

Pretty weird. I recommend you stay away from it.

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There are quite a few of them. They 'feel' like something is off with the mother, because she didn't grieve as they wanted her to.

...followed here. I mostly read news articles.

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do you more harm than good.

Their thinking is that the mother hired these kids to shoot her baby and her, so that she could collect the kid's $5-10K insurance policy (meant to cover funeral expenses).

Most commonly cited reasons:

1) "Susan Smith";

2) "Something felt off"

Depraved and idiotic.

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people think of Susan Smith these days.

But they have suspects, right? And I haven't heard anything about anyone charging the mom, and can't they tell if she's fired a gun or if her own wound was self-inflicted?

And proceeded to believe her account and arrest these guys. So, that pretty much wraps up that angle.

Of course, one SW Truther told me that someone could shoot themself in the ear and the thigh without getting gunpowder residue on them.

These are not well people.

It was the oddest thread.

Well now they have to prove the mother paid the guys who the police arrested for their gut instinct to be worth anything. Good luck with that.

a psychopathic villain.

Haters gonna hate.

And the resulting flame wars. Unless you enjoy flame wars, of course.

...but what else do you think a poor person of color in a small Georgia town is likely to wonder when confronted with the expense that this sort of attention generates? Medical expenses. Lawyers. Travel and transportation. Let's not convict her for the crime of being poor.

...quite likely pretty poor already, has medical bills...I mean- hell, she could have been a week away from being kicked out of her house/aptment for all I know. I don't put too much emphasis on the insurance payout thing either. Besides, if the daughter wanted to, she could represent a rather innocent comment any way she liked for effect.

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snap judgments...really scary.

we needed the money to bury her....

My SIL died unexpectedly a couple of years ago. $500 for this, $1800 for that, in about 5 minutes you're looking at 5K.

She said there are witnesses. I'd assume the cops have talked to any witnesses. The daughter is no witness. Open and shut case.

She picked the kids pictures, probably out of a school yearbook. Are you willing to put 2 young black kids in jail for life, on Sherry West's sayso? She may be crazy , for all you know. This is how lynch mobs used to get started. Calm down and let the cops sort it out.

...police to what is believed to be the murder weapon.

More of that information here:
UPDATED: Two Teenagers Arrested; 13-Month-Old Baby Fatally Shot In The Face While On Stroll With Mother

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