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Family ‘flabbergasted’ that mom who pushed her son in a swing for two days until he died is charged
National Post/ Assoc. Press ^ | 09/15/2015 | Matthew Barakat

Posted on 09/15/2015 11:01:23 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: Conscience of a Conservative

govt’s own incompetence here....Huh? Is there a curfew in the playground? Do police have a duty or authority to roust, list and chase people in one place for more time than what the government says is “prudent”? Get a grip. We are not a totally fascist country yet, especially with preferred classes of citizens.


61 posted on 09/15/2015 11:49:17 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: jonascord

“If you were to glance over, see a woman pushing a crying baby in a swing, would you immediately jump to child abuse?”

At 2pm? No. At 2am? Worth investigating, at least.


62 posted on 09/15/2015 11:54:38 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Safetgiver

Mage was out there for two days. It would not have been “fascist” for the police to approach her at some point during those two days (especially overnight), to investigate what was going on.


63 posted on 09/15/2015 11:58:03 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Yup. corporate guilt.


64 posted on 09/15/2015 11:59:07 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: duckworth
They use this: Black Baby Names
65 posted on 09/15/2015 12:04:33 PM PDT by quietly desperate
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

especially with preferred classes of citizens.....I repeat myself. No crime, no reason to roust her.


66 posted on 09/15/2015 12:11:27 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The article says someone decided to cal, the police when it was observed that the mother was pushing the child in a swing at “odd hours.” I guess it all looked normal during the day, but at 3:00 am?


67 posted on 09/15/2015 12:11:37 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Politicalkiddo

See, “father” and “splooge doner” are NOT synonymous.


68 posted on 09/15/2015 12:16:52 PM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: Politicalkiddo

If THAT is true, the judge has this child’s BLOOD on his hands!!!


69 posted on 09/15/2015 12:18:29 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Remember this case?


70 posted on 09/15/2015 12:36:52 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Ann Archy

Apparently the father agreed to joint custody, but why an erratic person (e.g. the mother) would be given any form of custody is beyond me.


71 posted on 09/15/2015 12:41:16 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("...for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world." -1 John 4:4)
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To: Vermont Lt
Oh wait. No hubby. No help.

Well she has de welfare and de food stamps and de gummint to give her all her needs and a baby daddy or 3 to keep her knocked up. Perfectly Normal..... Just ask zer0.

72 posted on 09/15/2015 12:48:24 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

So, Vonasha, why did you do nothing to take this poor child out of the care of your mentally-ill daughter?


73 posted on 09/15/2015 12:50:15 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Of course, they do.


74 posted on 09/15/2015 12:50:52 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Vaquero

How’d you like to wait up from a 3-day drunk and find that in your bed? The question is, would Laz hit it?


75 posted on 09/15/2015 1:01:56 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Mastador1

LOL!


76 posted on 09/15/2015 1:08:25 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Maybe her family should have had her best interest at heart by getting her to a doctor BEFORE she produced a child!

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State’s Attorney Anthony Covington said at Monday’s arraignment that police found Lee’s jacket in the trash, and his shoes off his feet, filled with rain water.

During the proceeding, Simms objected when prosecutors declared her a danger and a flight risk, according to Kristen Ayers, a spokeswoman for the state’s attorney.

“I’m not a risk to anybody,” Simms said, before her public defender advised her to be quiet. “I didn’t even mean for this to happen.”

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/family-flabbergasted-that-state-charged-mom-who-pushed-her-son-in-a-swing-for-two-days-until-he-died

Vontasha Simms said her daughter had just begun taking medication for her mental-health problems a few months before Ji’Aire’s death, and wondered whether there were problems getting the right medication or dosage.

“Somehow, somewhere within that episode, time stopped for her,” Vontasha Simms said.

She hopes to retain a private attorney to represent her daughter, but worries she can’t afford it.

Earlier this year, the boy’s father petitioned a District of Columbia court for custody of his son, saying Simms was behaving erratically and jumped out of a moving taxicab with Ji’Aire.

In court papers connected to the custody case, Romechia Simms acknowledged she had had a mental breakdown but insisted she was doing better.

“This breakdown that I had was the first that I have ever had in my life and I truly believe it was from an extreme amount of stress weighing heavy on me. I am now in a much better productive space,” she wrote in a letter to the judge.


77 posted on 09/15/2015 1:13:08 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Timber Rattler

That park is close to my house.


78 posted on 09/15/2015 1:15:04 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: fwdude

She stood behind a swing for 48 hours straight pushing a child until he died. I don’t think its a stretch to say this ones is bat-shit crazy.


79 posted on 09/15/2015 1:17:25 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: kcvl; Politicalkiddo
You're posting your reply to the wrong person



The State should have to answer for letting this mentally ill woman have custody of this child and for not letting the father have custody.

20 posted on 09/15/2015 11:09:27 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("...for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world." -1 John 4:4)


You intended to send your post to Politicalkiddo

80 posted on 09/15/2015 1:25:49 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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