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[-] Black616Angel@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

The jail sentence has nothing to do with this happening.

This will keep happening while people are forced to bear kids they don't want in financial situations, where nothing can be afforded and everything is shit.

The mother was torturing her child because she needed to vent and her kid seemed like the root of all her problems, not because there were only 30 days of jail sentence.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

And with poor access to mental health support.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Every time there's a mass shooting, Republicans say, "guns aren't the problem, mental health is" and then they want to do absolutely nothing about it.

The only conclusion you can make is that they like mentally ill people who torture and murder.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think that's only been a recent thing they've mentioned; mostly they seem to come out with the 'moar guns' line, or the good guys with guns statement, but that's coming from an outsider so it may well be different from your actual experience.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

...they like mentally ill people who torture and murder.

Well I mean every political party tries to develop their base

[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Then they'll take that and turn it into fear. Then they'll take that fear and blame the Democrats for it. Then their base with their room temperature IQ will eat that shit up and show up on voting day and vote for hatred and projection while being completely oblivious to the fact it's their party's fault nothing is being done about it.

[-] CapitalismsRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Celsius or Fahrenheit?

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

She said she actually did it to spite the father...

[-] Black616Angel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I wrote this somewhere else, but my point still stands. The kid seemed as the root of all her problems and the jail sentence did never occur to her.

This is not an excuse (as some people said) it is still a horrible thing to do. I just want to make people aware, that these thing point to systemic problems and not necessarily evil people.

[-] SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 year ago

Do you have evidence this woman was forced to bear this child? I didn't read that in the article. And since you provided your opinion of why the mother did this to the child, I know for a fact you didn't read the article.

[-] Black616Angel@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Do you have evidence this woman was forced to bear this child?

I do not, but I also rather meant my text as generalization for parents harming their children this much.

Okay, let's look into the article to see if a jail sentence would help.

Authorities said while the officer was taking McDonald to jail, she said that her actions were done as a test to see if the child’s father “gave a f--k at all,” adding she waterboarded her baby to try and make Neal come back to the apartment.

She allegedly admitted her actions were done “out of spite.”

I would argue, this crime has nothing to do with the sentence and everything to do with the circumstances I and others have mentioned.

And maybe she didn't want to abort, but also maybe she would have chosen to, if it were more accepted and education in that matter was better.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It's accepted in Oregon

[-] Reddit_Is_Trash@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I didn't realize that poor financial situations excuse people from waterboarding babies

[-] Black616Angel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Did I write that somewhere? No.

Did I mean it? No.

Okay, but do you think, that maybe her life was so shitty, that she didn't even care for her kid and that this is maybe even a systemic problem and she has no way of solving that herself?

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