Another unfit parent
This is so sad ;(
A ten-day-old baby girl died in Oklahoma after she was placed in a washing machine for an entire spin cycle.
The child's mother Lyndsey Fiddler has been charged with second-degree manslaughter after her daughter was found in the machine along with a pile of laundry.
The death left many of the emergency crews and police who responded to the incident in tears, with a veteran police chief admitting it was the most tragic crime scene he had ever seen.
A family member, Rhonda Coshatt, who also lived with Ms Fiddler, told police she saw Fiddler leave the living room with the baby saying she was going to feed her, according to a police search warrant.
A short time later, Ms Fiddler reportedly returned to the living room without the baby and passed out on a couch.
Ms Coshatt went looking for the baby and could not find her, the warrant stated.
Ms Coshatt then found the baby inside the washing machine after hearing loud, banging noises coming from the laundry.
Paramedics tried to revive the newborn baby after she was pulled out of the washing machine but she was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
Her two older children, aged four and three, were taken into care by social workers.
Ms Fiddler has previously been arrested for assault, driving without a licence and not having her two older children in car seats.
She was also arrested in April for taking drugs when she was four months pregnant.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8120312/us-baby-found-dead-in-washing-m...
The news is full of bad news
So you have to stop reading and watching TV
Well most educated people don't wind up junkies...so a proper education about drugs could have saved this woman.
LOL - I know what you mean ...
brit
believe me, without going through complete OP, i simply typed most repeated word that all the time i read on QL, if same incident happened somewhere else.
say again
"Need proper education."
Some, maybe. But most drug addicts will do just about anything to get a fix. this includes selling their bodies, stealing nd anything else that's possible..
need education
They are not rampant nowadays. What is "rampant" is increased reporting of these issues, which are all good things as it draws attention to the issues. If anything child abuse is declining.
Sicko.. how could she killed an innocent baby... She deserves to be punished!!
It even happened before when the father burned their house to kill his children..
& i saw a true to life film: a mother tried to put poison on the food she cooked to kill her kids..
These things r rampant nowadays:(
RIP little angel :-(
Its always existed. The answer is more money for Social Services so that they can keep better track of these kids. It's taking the kids away at birth, rather than waiting a few years. And even more importantly getting people to speak out when they suspect abuse is happening (most people still keep silent). Sterilization is not the answer, even temporary sterilization. It's just an expensive short term "solution."
I got u brit..:)we do need a solution for all the madness going around..
That's because it sells papers Tinkerbell. Not because it's pandemic.
Yes, I'm sure science and doctors can come up with a solution...
Let's hope so - for the sake of teh children.
Ok, perhaps i used the wrong wording.. By steralization, you are permanently removing the abiliuty for the woman to have a child.
This , to me is wrong!
Adoption is often more difficult, especially in Western countries. If you can't afford to fly to China to get a child your stuck in the system, and the system is lacking in babies and even young children. Unless you want to adopt a highly traumatized teen, you're usually out of luck.
I for one would feel as if I hadn't accomplished all my life's goals if I didn't have a child.
Pilgram,me too.I'm looking forward to having a child when the right time comes..but If I'm not capable of having it doesn't make me less of who i am..i can adopt a child. I'm open to adoption..
Well I have to say that I would be devastated if I couldn't have a child. I can't wait till I have a baby and while it doesn't define me as a person, it's an experience I am very much looking forward to.
I would hate myself for life if I done something stupid in my youth that would take that experience away from me.
Brit,I knew a lot of women without children who are miserable not bcoz it made them incomplete but bcoz their husbands cheated and had a baby from their mistresses.
A woman is a woman even without a child. It's the pain of the husband's infidelity that makes the "wife" lonely.
Not all husbands would cheat and have kids from other women. So women can be happy without a child. It's a matter of how u perceive the situation. Happiness should never be tied to anybody or anything especially to one's ability of having a child.
As a woman, I do wish of having one,but if I can't have,then my life doesn't stop from there.
Non permanent sterilization it should be for drug addicts and other such folks or else risk more cases like the one in the OP..this is not the first nor will it be the last unless action is taken.
Colt, so do I. A friend of mine and her husband were heroin addicts 8 years ago and are now sober and have 3 healthy boys.
Well Tinker offering a junkie $300 is akin to offering a starving person a poison apple. They're unlikely to pass it up, and unlikely to think it through.
I have no issues with her offering non-permanent sterilization, but permanent is unethical.
As a woman... How incomplete would you have felt without children ?
Junkies do sober up, I have friends who have come clean from all of it and are leading happy married lives.
what probably happened was that she needed a quick fix so she put her baby down among all the clothes, got her fix and then forgot the baby was among that pile of clothes, just carried it all up and dumped it in the washer :-(
It is an issue of ethics. It is all too easy to say "steralize them".
Picture a case in point. You are a junkie at a young age.
You get steralized, but later you manage to give up drugs and rehabilitate yourself.
NOW, you want a family, but you can't. As a female, how hard must that be to bear ?
The issue with Barbara Harri's plan is that it involves permanent sterilization. Junkies can and do sober up. She's liable to end up sued for taking advantage of people not in their right frame of mind.
she should not be call mother..i m in shock after reading this..wat a bad news & worst deed..
Good job by Barbara Harris.
terminate her contract :(
can some one put all the unfit parents in a washing machine?
She's a junkie and so probably got "knocked up" by a punter or druggie boyfriend..
By the way, this reminds me of a story doing the rounds at present and causing a lot of discussion..
Barbara Harris, the founder of Project Prevention, which pays U.S. drug addicts $300 to be sterilized or treated for long-term birth control is now trying to do the same in the UK.
The idea is to prevent drug users from having children while addicted.
However, this has caused an ethical uproar in the UK..
What do you think ?
Ohh my God! what came into her fricking mind?!Poor baby..:(so sad..
How careless a mother could be??
Shame on her...
DP
Haven't these psychos heard of birth control?Its obvious this woman never really wanted kids anyways since she has such a problem taking care of them! Just look at her record. Why was she even allowed to have her baby with her considering the fact that the two older kids were already in social care? Seriously its so pathetic when such people have kids and there are those folks out there who want kids and can't have them,Qadarallah!
i cant even read full news.... so sad....
OMG! WTF!
they dont deserve to be mothers ;)
:-(
The authorities should have taken the child into care at birth along with her other children.
May the little tyke rest in peace.
the lady is criminal and should be pushed for harshest punishment.
it will be repeated many times more!
Sounds like she was either drunk or high. Probably high.
so sick... it's saddening to read news like this.. poor little angel.. :(