Posted on 10/05/2016 5:45:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
A 7-year-old girl in McKeesport, Pennsylvania got on the bus and went to school as normal Monday morning, but on the way home she told her bus driver she hadn’t been able to wake her parents. The bus driver alerted police who responded to the home. From the Washington Post:
Inside the home, authorities found the bodies of Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25, dead of suspected drug overdoses, according to police.
Also inside the home were three other children 5, 3 and nine months old.
Courney Lally, the deceased woman’s sister, had tried to alert authorities to the problem for months, sending police photos from inside the couple’s trash-strewn home and begging authorities to give her custody of the couple’s four children. That had only angered Jessica Lally who moved her family to a new house a few months ago.
This local news report tells the story:
There were 422 drug overdose deaths in Allegheny County (which includes Pittsburgh) in 2015. In fact, police responded to a similar situation on the same block within a day of discovering the 7-year-old’s parents. That’s part of a massive rise in opioid deaths nationwide:
Nationwide, opioids such as heroin and prescription pain relievers killed more than 28,000 people in 2014, more than any year on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least half of all opioid overdose deaths involved a prescription drug, the CDC said, adding that the number of overdose deaths involving opioids has nearly quadrupled nationwide since 1999.
Incidents like this of parents overdosing in front of small children have made the news several times recently. Last month video was published on You Tube showing a toddler trying to rouse her mother, Mandy McGowen, who had collapsed from a drug overdose in the middle of a Family Dollar store in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Fortunately, McGowen survived but her 2-year-old was taken from her by Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.
Maybe I missed it, but where in the article does it say that? ....
“BTW: Who keeps the cartels in business? ILLEGAL DRUG USERS”
You’re precisely wrong on that. The users provide the revenue, but the legal system, such as it is, provides the profitability. The cost of morphine sulfate legally obtained is about $25 for 120 tablets with a prescription. The cartels can’t operate on the thin profit margins legal drugs offer.
We don’t execute murderers. And we somehow think the death penalty will be implemented in the US for drug trafficking? Not a chance.
Well if you’re serious about fighting a war on drugs, that’s what you do. Any thing else is half-assed.
LOL
You folks are a riot.
You can’t grasp that the users of illegal drugs are the ones that fund the cartels.
End the illicit use of drugs, the cartels find other things to do with their time.
Place your blame where it belongs. It’s the grown up thing to do.
Social services are useless. Family matters should be taken care of by family without state involvement. Further, police are a failed paradigm when it comes to crime control. Check out the homicide rates before police were widely used (circa 1850’s) versus the homicide rates today. Why are we paying billions of dollars for police when the end results are so abysmal?
yep
Sad but true...
AMEN TO ALL OF THAT!!!!
It’s not GUNS that police are needed for.
I live in NYC (Staten Island) but there are so many business owners with carry permits and guns I’ve lost count. Then there’s the, er, fellas.
No gunshot in this neighborhood in 18 years i’ve been HERE.
Kids play too loud too late, after midnight, I TELL them that’s it. And they’re not my kids :)
No one gets mad. Their Pop is too lenient but he apologizes to me when it happens.
And as for hurting one of my nieces and nephews, the SS and police are worthless, and if it did happen, i’d be in jail for a long time.
It should not be up to strangers!!
It should be up to kin and friends.
My grandfather on mom’s side was a brutally cruel mafioso father. To be honest though, there’s no real correlation.
I’ve known Many gangsters who treat their kids like gold. Too much!!
Anyway, so my uncle Harry (WWI suicide squad) went after him with a gun for beating my grandmother. That helped a lot more than any Social worker could have.
Sure. Children lives matter.
Sort of.
I suppose it all depends on what your definition of "matters" is...
The heroin epidemic started in the mid1990s when Bill Clinton started allowing mass illegal immigration into the U.S. via the Mexican border. It didn't become an issue with the MSM until George Bush became president.
my question for you is how would you handle being accused of drug abuse and having your kids stolen by a sister or brother that might or might not have other isues......at the point of drug abuse , violence or sex abuse allegation an agency out side of the family has to step in... It is never good to have the state take care of theses issues but a family member unilaterally stepping in has the potential to be worse.
If you showed me the tats, I could answer that...
I just stole that truism...
It should be up to kin and friends.
We have no disagreement...
Unless the whole family group are completely dysfunctional, which happen at times...
Or not.
I very much doubt that junkies are fastidious, when high, about appropriate doses...
Which bothers me not one whit, if they are childless.
yeah, you’re right. then what? I thought that for a second.
There WAS a lot of abuse way back when when women were afraid to report it.
Ah, I’m not NEARLY bright enough to have an answer to this situation!!
The church, the police, local authorities if they have the spine...
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