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5-year-old found dead in mom's stolen car
AP via KnoxNews ^ | 12/5/6

Posted on 12/05/2006 7:42:08 AM PST by SmithL

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Prayers for the family.
1 posted on 12/05/2006 7:42:12 AM PST by SmithL
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Authorities said the boy's mother left him asleep in the back seat of her car with the engine running while she went inside a store to buy juice

She so failed the basic protection clause of being a parent. So sad I am shaking here.

2 posted on 12/05/2006 7:51:07 AM PST by alisasny (Cynthia McKinny..INTERNATIONAL BLACK FEMALE CONGRESSPERSON OF MYSTERY)
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To: SmithL
Terrible.

I wonder how you pronounce "Geontae"?

3 posted on 12/05/2006 7:55:11 AM PST by LongElegantLegs (...a urethral syringe used to treat syphilis with mercury.)
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Poor little boy :(

Speaking of which,
yours here yet?


4 posted on 12/05/2006 8:01:40 AM PST by najida (If it wasn't for fast food, I'd have no food at all.)
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To: SmithL

This is so sad. Prayers for this little boy and his family.


5 posted on 12/05/2006 8:03:03 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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She so failed the basic protection clause of being a parent. So sad I am shaking here.

Perhaps I'm a failure too, then. I can understand her reasoning: it's cold, kid's asleep in the car, so leave it running so that the heater will stay on.....

Had it been me, I'd have turned the car off and locked the doors. In retrospect, the lady made a bad error. Personally, I blame the thief/murderer, but maybe that's just me.

6 posted on 12/05/2006 8:07:49 AM PST by r9etb
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To: LongElegantLegs
I wonder how you pronounce "Geontae"?

Jon-tay, I'm guessing.

7 posted on 12/05/2006 8:08:43 AM PST by r9etb
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Nope, not till January.
That way, I don't have to help un-decorate the Christmas tree. >:-)


8 posted on 12/05/2006 8:09:22 AM PST by LongElegantLegs (...a urethral syringe used to treat syphilis with mercury.)
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I think the blame falls on the guy who stole the car and (presumably) left the boy to die...
I don't leave my kids alone in the car, but I understand it's not an unusual thing to do in some places.


9 posted on 12/05/2006 8:11:26 AM PST by LongElegantLegs (...a urethral syringe used to treat syphilis with mercury.)
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Smart girl!


10 posted on 12/05/2006 8:13:02 AM PST by najida (If it wasn't for fast food, I'd have no food at all.)
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It's *possible*, though unlikely IMO, that the thief never knew the kid was there. Even if that was the case, the charge ought to be 1st-degree murder, with the guy driving the other vehicle being an accessory to murder.


11 posted on 12/05/2006 8:15:32 AM PST by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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Except that they found the kid's body in the trunk...
12 posted on 12/05/2006 8:18:39 AM PST by LongElegantLegs (...a urethral syringe used to treat syphilis with mercury.)
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The mom is going to spend the rest of her life regretting her decision, but the thief is the criminal who is responsible for the child's death.


13 posted on 12/05/2006 8:19:57 AM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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Don't ever leave your young child in the car alone. I've been tempted alright, believe me, come very close-- but it's clearly not worth it. I personally know someone who did something quite similar to the mother in this one and had her car stolen with her infant inside. Luckily, that one turned out okay when the thief ditched the car after seeing the infant inside it.


14 posted on 12/05/2006 8:56:33 AM PST by I_like_good_things_too (Don't make perfect the enemy of the good)
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I will never understand how anyone can be that cruel.


15 posted on 12/05/2006 9:47:14 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 (Democrats don't have a plan)
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Follow-up: Hoax revealed; mom, man held in boy's death
16 posted on 12/05/2006 10:13:13 AM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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Unfortunately it is more sinister and sordid than initially reported...

Death of boy tied to mother, boyfriend, police say

17 posted on 12/05/2006 10:14:38 AM PST by Dan Cooper
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To: alisasny

I apologize, looks like you were right after all.


18 posted on 12/05/2006 10:32:52 AM PST by LongElegantLegs (...a urethral syringe used to treat syphilis with mercury.)
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Didnt mean to be right, just knew something was very wrong in the story.


19 posted on 12/05/2006 7:38:02 PM PST by alisasny (Cynthia McKinny..INTERNATIONAL BLACK FEMALE CONGRESSPERSON OF MYSTERY)
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how bizarre now looking back to know the killer was mom and boyfriend....

sorry I just had a gut feeling on this one.


20 posted on 12/05/2006 7:39:55 PM PST by alisasny (Cynthia McKinny..INTERNATIONAL BLACK FEMALE CONGRESSPERSON OF MYSTERY)
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