Posted on 04/13/2015 5:22:56 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel
THE LITTLE PATCH of woods off 59th Street near Cobbs Creek is a place where people drink beer, have sex in the dirt and dump their trash.
Dozens of tall cans of cheap beer, a few condom wrappers and old, wet clothes were scattered there yesterday afternoon, right near a line of police tape that stretched from tree to tree. The blanket that Nyia Parler allegedly used to cover her quadriplegic son before she abandoned him there last week was gone. The Bible she allegedly left on his chest, perhaps hoping a higher power could sort it all out, was gone, too.
Parler, 41, of Baltimore Avenue near Alden Street in West Philly, left her son, Daequan Norman, in those woods about a quarter-mile from her home last Monday morning, police said. She then boarded a bus to Silver Spring, Md., to visit her boyfriend, police said, and according to her Facebook page she was OK with that.
"I'm so happy," Parler said in a Facebook comment Tuesday afternoon, a full 24 hours after her son had been left out in the elements.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150413_Dumped_like_trash__What_would_cause_her_to_leave_son_helpless_.html#DhMfZ6FByFvBgCAm.99
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However, if the "mother", in court, uses the defense: Hey, the guy is 21, he's a fully emancipated adult. I don't have an obligation to take care of him.
How does the prosecution fight that? I'm probably missing something obvious here, but in turning it over in my head all day.
Again, it's obviously immoral, but what legal principle am I missing?
He is medically dependent and she was his parent and designated legally responsible caregiver. The law is clear. It makes no difference that he was over 21.
She deserves to be locked up for life — out in an area of the woods where it can rain on her and she has no water or food. I hope this young man finds someone who cares about him.
She can say she has no obligation to take care of him, but leaving him where he has no ability to secure another caretaker, exposed to the elements, is a different matter. By doing that, she was actively, intentionally trying to harm him.
As a wild guess, has the boy been ruled an official invalid, and her his official caretaker, and monthly monies being paid for this official designation?
She took him there, she didn’t just get bored and leave someplace where they were hanging out together, and he could go his way, and her, her way.
That's what I haven't been able to find out.
In all likelihood, yeah, she cashed in on him 8 ways from Sunday. But what if she didn't? What's to stop someone from doing that legally?
Attempted murder.
Attempted murder, second degree?
I presumed that she’s a scumbucket. Is there a need for a deeper analysis?
I’m guessing, but if he is an invalid, then I doubt that you can dump him in the woods to die, we are lucky that this isn’t a charge related to a death.
I don’t think that we can legally walk our Alzheimer parents into the forest to get rid of them for example.
Dumped like trash because she IS trash.
And all of her ilk. Which is far too many around urban. It’s called urban blight for a reason.
Oh, and HAH - this pathetic piece of trash checks into a Monty Co. hospital for some undisclosed malady and “treatment”.
Because she wants to AVOID proper “treatment”.
I heard that on the radio (local) today and scowled.
Yeap. But she will some how some way play a “victim” card and walk away with a slap on the wrist. Most if not all states have abuse laws on the books in relation to children, elderly, and the disabled unable to mentally understand or function at the age of majority. This is not an act a real mother does. She may have given birth to him but a mother she isn’t. She had legal means to safely surrender her legal obligation and chose to do this instead.
Well, that's a good point, but I'd guess that someone, somewhere along the way would have taken custody or legal responsibility for an elderly person. In this case, I think when the kid turned 18 or 21, he'd be automatically emancipated.
But again, I really suspect I'm missing something.
It’s your thread didn’t you look into it at all?
“What we’ve learned so far is that the 21-year-old child lives with his mother, completely dependent on mom as a result of his condition,” Officials describe the victim as “non-verbal” and completely dependent on others for his care.
He is a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. He is helpless.
It was luck that animals didn’t eat him, he is helpless.
“They found [him] about 100 yards off the roadway here, laying in leaves. He’s got a blanket over him and a Bible on his chest,” Walker said. “He has a wheelchair about 10 feet from his body.”
The mom had to do everything to care for this boy who is paralyzed from the neck down and he can't talk. I think she wanted to have some time with the boyfriend so badly that she mentally snapped and I would bet she has a dull normal IQ (between 70-90) and left the boy in the woods and kept that out of her mind (sealed that fact in a corner of her brain and wouldn't go there to consider what she did), went to the boyfriend to have some freedom of her own.
It appears she freaked out when the cops came and she had to then consider what she did. I think that's why they had to take her to hospital unless she “physically” did something to harm herself when faced with what she did.
The article says family members would have taken care of the boy if she had approached them. That's another reason I think she has a dull normal IQ - she couldn't think of what to do with the boy in order for her to get away, didn't/couldn't think of family help, so she left him in the woods.
What the mother did was wrong. Incapacitated adults receive the same protections as minor children under the law as far as responsibility to make sure safe and fed.
However, I want to point out that up until the leftists disbanded them, every state in the country had at least one home for the disabled where families could have their disabled children go and live. These facilities were a safe haven and 3 hots and a cot and custodial care for these kinds of cases. These facilities were compassion writ large.
Because not many are cut out to care for the seriously mentally and or physically and or developmentally ill. In the past they were tied up in attics and ice houses, at best, or allowed to starve or killed outright.
The state provided another more compassionate solution.
That option has been taken away. There is no place for these people, and families walk away. The are left in airports without ID, they are abused, and they are killed. I am aware of two murder suicides recently of parent/developmental delayed adult child.
She could have dropped him off at a hospital or a police station. But she dropped him off in a place where he would likely die a painful and horrible death.
She’s a monster.
It is disgusting how these do-gooder commies have ruined our former systems of caring for the disadvantaged. All in the name of “compassion”; i.e., hand-wringing about how they are perceived being in “institutions” or that they must “be free”.
Mental institutions, handicap institutions, even orphanages.
What do we have? Homeless vagrants and kids passed around from one “home” to the next, never any stability at least.
Thanks, you Goddamn commies. Not to mention all the other garbage you spew.
“What we’ve learned so far is that the 21-year-old child lives with his mother, completely dependent on mom as a result of his condition,” Officials describe the victim as “non-verbal” and completely dependent on others for his care.
Maybe you should find somewhere else to play along. Uh, yeah. You responded, did you read the question?
What's the legal basis for a parent being responsible for the care of an emancipated child?
You only restated what everyone has read in the article. Not exactly bringing the discussion along.
The horror of this to me is that her mute son, incapacitated by cerebral palsy, likely has fairly normal intelligence, fully aware of his condition and his mother’s callousness.
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