Boy crushed by gate his first time out alone (Illinois)

Prayers for this family- oh my how very, very sad.

My youngest daughter at three climbed a metal fence panel that was supposed to be wired solid- but wasn’t. The panel fell with her and broke her leg. I know we dodged a bullet with that, too bad this couldn’t have been one of those near misses so many children have while growing up.

20 posts and all have been sympathetic. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Never take your eyes off of your kid!

She didn't. She saw it happen. How do you protect your child every second of his life?

Oh how sad, prayers for the poor family. I can only imagine how guilty the mother feels, even though she must know logically that she couldn’t have kept a gate that heavy from falling even if she was standing right there.

I can’t wait for the asshat crew to get here...

Well, O.K. then. You seem a pleasant sort.

20 posts and all have been sympathetic. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Here let me enlighten you dear, peruse this thread from yesterday about the 7 year old black kid getting decapitated at Six Flags and tell me what you think:

Start Here with Post 7

Yea. Those posts were not cool but this story is much different.

Heartbreaking. As the father of three, I just can’t imagine it.

Are these housing developments the ones that Rezko / Obama were associated with?

There is a saying about not borrowing trouble- why don’t you wait for the “asshats” to show up before you post their views for them on a thread?

Sure it’s different but you can bet sooner or later someone will claim they shouldn’t have let the toddler out of reach basically.

But the issue on the other thread is that public displays of sympathy for someone you don’t know is fake and self indulgent as are prayers.

Or that folks who screw up and get killed don’t deserve sympathy.

Nuts.

I’ve never met folks like that in my life....have you?

There is a saying about not borrowing trouble-

lol...that one sure carries a lot of weight in FReeperdom...we're all such pussycats

yes, I’m just a big huggie bear

Here let me enlighten you dear, peruse this thread from yesterday about the 7 year old black kid getting decapitated at Six Flags and tell me what you think:

Not to condone the posts on that thread, but the kid at Six Flags was 17, not 7. There is no comparison to the two. One was a freak accident, which was to a 3 year-old, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The other case was a 17 year-old who should have known better. Both are tragedies, yes, but two different things.

yes...I have already stated they were different but both involve negligence and bad judgment...one on behalf of the deceased and the other on behalf of the child's guardians and the Cabrini Green maintenance folks

there are folks here...not a majority who think no sympathy is warranted unless the death is purely innocent with no bad judgment or negligence involved, and there are those who feel large cash settlements will miraculously fix it all and then the most obtuse crowd which feels public sympathy like public prayer for someone you don't know is fake and indulgent.

Now...I know you've been here a long time and don't cotton to that but there is an ugliness here that I reckon is just human nature to some and it shows up on Darwin Death threads mostly and I don't think it reflects well.

And I believe that most people with kids who feel this vulnerability are less likely to be so callous, but that's just a hunch. I'm sure there are plenty of sympathetic childless freepers.

;>)

Are these housing developments the ones that Rezko / Obama were associated with?

Son of a Sea Cook- look what I just found at Atlas...

CORRUPTION ERUPTION: OBAMA'S BABY KILLING HOUSING POLICY

CORRUPTION ERUPTION! Obama makes Clinton's bimbo eruptions look positively scarce. He is the quintessential fixer -- right at home in Tammany. America wants change? Be careful what you wish for. It would take decades to recover from this statist.

The Blood Money of Barack Obama’s Money Men No Quarter hat tip deb
A little boy is dead because Barack’s key fundraisers cared more about profit than a safe environment for children. While his mother watched him to be sure he was safe, Curtis Cooper, a three-year-old boy riding his tricycle, was crushed to death by a heavy iron fence that suddenly fell over on top of him at a housing project run by Obama contributor Cullen Davis — whose family received huge government subsidies as well as a $1,000,000 grant for the properties from the Woods Fund’s board, whose members included Barack Obama and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers.
CBS2 Chicago also reports:
Curtis’ aunt Lisa Springfield said, “It just crushed him all up, his whole face.”
According to witnesses, five or six men rushed to the boy to try to pry the heavy fence off of him. An hour later he was pronounced dead at Children’s Memorial Hospital.
Cullen Davis, the son of Obama’s first boss and major benefactor Allison Davis, is a beneficiary of Obama’s prominent effort to privatize the management of public housing in Chicago. As Un coup de des wrote here yesterday in “Boston Globe Exposé, Part I: Introducing Cecil Butler, Obama’s West Side Slumlord Patron,” the privatization of this housing — while highly profitable for investors like Cullen Davis, Allison Davis, and the now-convicted Tony Rezko — has left residents with chronic plumbing failures that led to sewage throughout units and backing up into kitchen sinks, “collapsed roofs and fire damage,” rampant rodent infestation, vacant units, and the displacement of thousands of low-income residents because the buildings are either uninhabitable or have been destroyed in order to “gentrify” neighborhoods.
Furious neighbors reacted last night, reports the Chicago Tribune:

A 3-year-old boy was crushed to death Friday evening by a large, rusted steel gate at the Cabrini-Green housing complex, prompting a crowd to gather and hurl accusations of mismanagement at property managers.
“How many accidents happen over here because of failed inspections,” screamed Willie J.R. Fleming, a resident and a director with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing. “There’s no accountability, there’s no oversight of this.”

Barack Obama and Mayor Daley backed the privatization schemes and personally interceded to ensure that THEIR cronies made money off the privatization. Here’s how DEEPLY INVOLVED Barack Obama is in these schemes that contributed to little Curtis Cooper’s death, via the Boston Globe’s “Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy“:

“As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers.”
“As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies.”
“And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.”

An outrageous example of the privatization profiteers is Tony Rezko. Reports the Boston Globe’s superb investigative report (a must-read in full):

UPDATE ON CORRUPTION POST: CORRUPTION ERUPTION: OBAMA's VENAL HOUSING POLICY

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A very loving and careful mother wouldn’t be raising her child in Cabrini Green!!!

There is a saying about not borrowing trouble- why don’t you wait for the “asshats” to show up before you post their views for them on a thread?

As a previously labeled "asshat," I am able to see this as a tragic and unfortunate event. I offer my condolences for this boy and his family. May God comfort and care for them as they mourn the loss of little Curtis.

Obama Derangement Syndrome. You have it.

Bumping those links for a later read. In spite of the possibility of Backhoe’s ODS, those articles look interesting. And the situation very clearly shows the consequences when government (or a government entity that is “privatized”) is in charge rather than the people themselves. I shudder at the thought of Cabrini-Green Healthcare.

Prayers for the family.