Child Found Eating Wood Near Road, Say Police (Tennessee)

WSMV Nashville, TN. ^ | 10/21/2009 | WSMV

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

WINCHESTER, Tenn. -- A young girl was found wandering near a busy road eating wood, said Franklin County police. Now her mother, Sheena Trull, is charged with child abuse, neglect and endangerment. She told police she put her two children in bed, then fell asleep. Police said the 2½-year-old girl climbed out an open window and fell about 5 feet on top of two bicycles. Witnesses said she was cold, wet, wearing a dirty diaper and chewing on a piece of wood. Trull's two children are in state custody.

[ScottinVA]

Ward, please have a talk with the Beaver.

[nascarnation]

Well if this happened in 2008 it would be Bush’s fault.
Now it’s just bad parenting.

[donhunt]

Is it illegal to eat wood?

[babble-on]

Lots of Meth heads down there.

[TheConservativeParty]

Like Ewell Gibbons used to say “some parts of the pine tree are edible!”. (Grape Nuts Cereal commercial circa 1970’s)

[cripplecreek]

Must be a family trait. I knew another girl named Trull who lost all 7 of her kids due to negligence.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

I think we did eat pine cones during my wilderness survival days in the scouts.

[Cicero]

Eating wood? I doubt it. Sometimes little kids like to put things in their mouths as a kind of instinct. If she was cold and wet it might give her a sense of comfort. 2-1/2 is a bit old for that, but not really out of line considering what she’d been through.

[beagleone]

That’s one way to get more roughage and fiber into your diet.

[Rome2000]

Its only OK if she be related to the the marxist in chief.

[SampleMan]

And when there was no shrimp we ate wood.

[Cyber Liberty]

Odd. Eating dirt would have been an epiphany.

[omega4179]

Yet FReepers think that mildly retarded 17 year old in Scotland should be allowed to care for a newborn.

[BlueStateBlues]

How much wood can a baby chuck, if a baby could chuck wood.

I do the same, but I call mine a Big Mac.

[cripplecreek]

LOL

One of my all time favorite movies.

“Boy, you got a panty on your head”

[papasmurf]

Wait. They take her children away for this?

There must be more to the story. The article is incomplete.

[Jeff Chandler]

[LonePalm]

Didn't the mom used to own a bridge?

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[goodwithagun]

My one-year-old son is peacefully sleeping in his crib. My heart breaks for this child and her siblings.

[r9etb]

There must be more to the story. The article is incomplete.

Agreed.

[Krodg]

There must be more to the story.

This is weird. You put your children to bed and go to sleep, then you are charged with neglect?

I wouldn't be surprised to find that there were other circumstances that led to the children being taken away, but the article sure doesn't make that case.

[mysterio]

Child Found Eating Wood Near Road

Unless she brought some Treponema along in her stomach, she'll have difficulty getting through those beta acetal linkages.

[circlecity]

Ummmmmmmmmmm,...woodddd...arghhhhhhhhh. Maaaarge....there’s splinters in my toungue.

[edcoil]

Show of hands, which one of us has never chewed on Lincoln Logs?

[ViLaLuz]

Up until first grade I pretty much shredded my pencils by chewing on ‘em.

[goat granny]

Lets not forget crayola, chalk, dirt and anything on the floor when crawling....Its the old MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN YOUR MOUTH syndrome..

[Rebelbase]

In some states...

[Rebelbase]

“Show of hands, which one of us has never chewed on Lincoln Logs?”

Probably those born after 1970.

[Mila]

"Unless she brought some Treponema along in her stomach, she'll have difficulty getting through those beta acetal linkages."

I wonder if she could be Subterranean or Formosan. :)

[roamer_1]

I think we did eat pine cones during my wilderness survival days in the scouts.

You "think"? As in "kinda' recall"?

If that is the case, then you didn't. While one may forget about eating a pine cone, one would never, ever forget about getting rid of it afterwards. :(

[windcliff]

LOL

[ViLaLuz]

I remember sampling paste, paint chips, burnt match heads and ash when I was little. Probably more I don’t remember, too.