Based on the story, I would say that you have no more info than anyone else, but you have no problem getting on a soapbox and bloviating away with your opinion.
Based on the story it is just as likely, if not more so, that the “mother” was drunk, stoned or both. Or killed the kid and had the dog chew it up afterwards.
Speaking of getting out of the basement, you may wish to get out of yours and see what too many sixteen year old girls with a newborn living with a guy with a pitbull are really like.
They ain’t pioneers and it ain’t 1840.
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