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.
Attempted murder.
I presumed that she’s a scumbucket. Is there a need for a deeper analysis?
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.
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.
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.