Posted on 06/23/2016 8:54:07 AM PDT by sparklite2
Thedford, an unemployed former high school teacher, dropped off his 3-year-old and 5-year-old children at daycare around 9 a.m. on Tuesday, but when he returned to his home in Melissa, Thedford forgot about his 6-month-old daughter, according to a warrant viewed by KHOU. He went inside the house to take a four-hour nap before waking up and realizing the baby girl remained in the hot minivan.
When he found the girl she was unresponsive, according to the warrant, so Thedford brought her inside the house and put her in a refrigerator for "an undetermined length of time." He then called his wife, who was at work, and 911 while trying unsuccessfully to perform CPR.
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Dumbasses like this guy provide the entire impetus for the existence of teachers’ unions.
-PJ
Local practice is to put a towel around their neck to keep defense attorneys arguing that neck tattoos are prejudicial in photo lineups.
They do it for all defendants processed in the county.
Not much they can do about face tattoos.
There is a major cognitive dissonance here about pot and booze displayed by folks who’ve never smoked or they wouldn’t talk so ignorant
In Texas, the most important skill is bilingual Spanish. That will land a teaching job just about anywhere. And there are always plenty of jobs in the urban districts while jobs are hard to come by in the middle class suburbs. I notice they don’t say where he taught, but if he taught near where he lived, it was probably one of the better districts.
Watch. I’ll bet a steak dinner that it will eventually come out that he was high on dope.
You’re wasting your time arguing with FR’s drug addicts. They come here under the guise of being “Libertarians” yet have nothing to do with conservatism. They just like drugs. You can’t reason with an addict.
Having “debated” (cough cough) with libertarians, large L and small, over the years, it is clear that libertarians large L and small have had their brains rotted by drugs. They are the most dishonest, diceitful, and freaking stupid to the point of serious retardation of any group of people. Even regular rabid atheists are easier to communicate with.
Marijuana lowers IQ permanantly, depending on years of use and how young one starts, and of course the high THC content now makes the olden days stuff I used to smoke seem like smoking nettles or oregano.
And of course the destruction of initiative, clear thinking, rational judgement, etc is serious; plus any person who MUST have (insert substance of choice) every day, is a slave to that substance and the resultant vacay from reality it provides. No one who takes drugs or alcohol on a regular basis, has to have it, is a free human being.
Very sad. And I say this as a former drug user and teenage alcholic.
why is he wrapped up in a blanket for a mugshot?
I HATE these stories. pay attention to your kids.
“If your unemployed why do you need daycare? So you can take four hour naps??”
Good question.
And, not to be too nit-picky, four hours is a night’s sleep for me.
“The child care program subsidizes child care for low-income families, promoting long-term self-sufficiency by enabling parents to work or attend workforce training or education activities. It also educates parents about the availability of quality child care, which enhances childrens early learning.”
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/programs/child-care-services-program-overview
He probably thought the fridge would throw off the coroner.
I figured it might have been something like that. As with most government run things, it appears it it rife with opportunities for abuse, and we are paying for it with money we don’t have.
Granted, for liberals, they think parents shouldn’t be raising their children, because in their minds, parents are bad for children, they should be raised by the state.
I just finished re-reading Orwell’s “1984”, and it is without a doubt one of the most frightening books I have ever read. But the thing here that made me think about it was O’Brien’s explanation to Winston about how the state fully intends to destroy the sexual drive, outlawing orgasm, making sex something unthinkiable, demolishing the husband-wife relationship, the parent-child relationship, and eventually, the bonds of simple friendship.
Encouraging these parents to send the kids to daycare where they can be raised by “professionals” seems to be right up that alley.
There had been a time in my life where I thought it was a far-fetched story about a future dystopia. Now it seems as if it is an instructional manual for the Left.
Scary. But I think I am preaching to the choir here.
Or he could be a drunk
Or pill head
Or just stupid
America is overrun with all three
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I agree. On top of that, some of those aren’t mutually exclusive. Especially when you’re talking about young losers who can churn out babies but can’t hold down a job.
I never thought of it that way! I was just shocked that McKinney had a National Airport.
Potheads found.
It’s 4:20 on the East Coast, time to blaze up.
Hit that bong and chill, bros. Hillary gonna give you all the weed you can burn.
Yeah, drunks are degenerates too, so what. Prescription drug addicts too, big deal. All addicts need to straighten up and fly right, or they’ll be like that 4-hour-nap-taking-baby-roasting dirtbag.
Astute observations. Sadly, it remains impossible to rationally discuss the dangers of substance abuse to addicts. Their addiction is the only thing of importance in their lives.
Slaves. Who worship their master and hate those who tell them, “Hey - you’re a slave, you can be free if you want”.
Only when he woke up three hours later did he find his youngest child stiff and hot as a brick in the minivan. He placed the child in the refrigerator with the door open before calling 911.
Thedford told deputies hes an unemployed high school teacher. He said his wife of 12 years is a veterinarian, and she was at work during the incident.
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