Man Killed 2-Year-Old Boy For Not Eating (poured boiling water on the boy)

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/21270828/detail.html

This is horrible. However, you have no idea of the circumstances of the mother or her situation.

When it became apparent the guy had hurt her child she should have put a carving knife in him.

That's just silly.

Leaving him in the care of someone who would do something like that is not protecting him.

Sometimes it can take years to determine that someone is nuts. It also sounds like they were a young couple as the boyfriend was 19, but we don't know the mother's age.

It's possible she just didn't know he was nuts. We will need more details on the story.

Blaming the mother at this point is premature.

I just know that protecting my little ones from harm was my most important function in life for many years.

The girl probably did not know or recognize he was capable of such a thing. But you always need to be extra cautious leaving a child with a boyfriend who is not the real father. Maybe she did not have enough years to know about this.

Of course that doesn't tell us her age.

...but I am certain that mother is there as we speak.

I wish I didnt know these things.

somebody get this guy out of the gene pool, no body pushes a childs' head and causes him to lose consciousness. He probably broke the kids neck.

This is what we're up against in this state, kids having kids having more kids and we wonder if it'll ever change.

gaud dammit the child was only two years old.

I just had the same thoughts... almost verbatim.

:cry:

Since when does boiling hot water revive anyone, much less a child?

by the child's mother and her boyfriend. They were having a contest to see who could hit him harder.

They are both "normal" people and both still in prison.

mark

on the child to revive him.
Frankly I think prosecution might have a different idea.

will often kill or drive off the offspring of a female they want to mate with. It's amazing and sickening how often this pattern is repeated within our own species.

Sometimes females engage in the same behavior although they kill less often than males, they sometimes drive competing offspring away through neglect or aggression.


Another DU'er called this behavior "tomcat killing," and it does seem to happen a lot.

Maru Kitteh, you are right.

It is a sociological fact that children are far safer with biological parents.

all the children in their households. Obviously some parents (Susan Smith) kill their own children to curry the favor of a new mate, or for financial or other numerous and despicable reasons.

This doesn't change the fact that a child in a mixed family situation is statistically more likely to suffer death, abuse or neglect than a child in home with biological parents.

There's a good little abstract here. http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/1400/Causes-Effects-Child-Abuse-HOUSEHOLD-COMPOSITION-RISK-MALTREATMENT-DEATH.html


It's just tragic. I retain hope that we may someday reduce instances of this horrific behavior through education, public awareness, increased penalization and whatever other measures may be effective.

:puke:

control his anger? I'd wager on the second.

Just no words.

Horrifying

That poor baby. :cry:

I'll boil the water..... :grr:

I wonder how old the mother is. The article doesn't say.

Not one. What do you bet there's some animal abuse in his not too distant past as well, as it so often serves as a precursor to domestic abuse and other violent crime?

Most people don't go straight from 0 mph to boiling a kid in one incident.

That must have been one hard smack. And he was stupid.

What a horrible way for anyone to die, much less a small toddler. Poor little guy.

:cry:

in some torturous way or other.

Usually the story is that the boyfriend was left to babysit while the mother was off doing something else, and the baby wouldn't behave. You know, it wouldn't stop crying, it wouldn't eat, etc. So Loving Boyfriend shakes or beats the child to death, or does some other horrible thing to the tyke that results in death.

It is WAY too common a story.

young man who is not the father of the child to babysit that child.

it's not a case where they were caring and normal and suddenly snapped out of nowhere.

they probably complained about the crying and other things before.

More than a few of them make their way in by pretending to love the kid.

Raising a kid is not cheap, and mothers are required to work if they do manage to get what welfare benefits still exist. There are ways in Florida for a mom to get a discount on child care, but it's really hard to get fully-paid-for care unless the parent is involved in the dependency court system, which could have saved this kid's life.

Had this family been in the dependency system--if it had been the county I'm familiar with, anyway--the mom would have had to have the boyfriend background checked before he could babysit, and the prior offenses would've been found so he would not have been allowed to be around the kid. The mom would have been getting unannounced visits from a child welfare worker, and the kid would be pulled out and placed with family or friends, or as a last resort in foster care, as soon as anyone found him babysitting.

CPS gets a lot of crap tossed at it, but I know of cases where incidents like this were prevented before they could happen.

Tucker

KNOW when to stop pushing your pet agenda, OK? You think you're doing the cause of healthcare any good with that comment?

NO. You are not.

Disgusting.

it seems like I'm seeing more and more cases like this...several years ago I had a former co-worker (about 21 or 22) who punched his infant son to death because he wouldn't stop crying...at the time I was shocked but now it seems like a weekly occurrence in some state....

Researching much of my own family back to the middle 1600's, most marriages seemed to occur when the male was about 20 to 26 and the female from about 17 to 20, with a child shortly thereafter.

On the other hand - it's well known that infanticide and other kinds of child murder have been tolerated in many societies throughout history.

I think there's a larger question at play here than the age of this killer and the mother. I think that question goes to why we as a society seem to be experiencing more of these kinds of incidents.

Boil that worthless fuck to death.

according to this article.

Loser bf also "has two sexually-related arrests on his record involving a child between 12 and 15 years old."

http://www.wftv.com/countybycounty/21271455/detail.html

:wow:

She did not harm others - and in fact became a devoted and nurturing mother and wife.

Maybe some fellow inmates will learn why he's in and take it upon themselves.

Just... ugh.