Posted on 01/22/2015 10:15:47 AM PST by Morgana
BLUFFTON, Ind. (WANE) – Court documents outline gruesome details in the death and treatment of a 3-year-old whose presumed disappearance prompted an hours-long community-wide search on Sunday. Three people are being held by police in the death of Owen Collins. The child was apparently dead, in the home, for almost an entire day before his body was put in a cardboard box, dumped in the woods and set on fire.
The mother of Owen Collins, 21-year-old Breanna J. Arnold and Zachary S. Barnes, 30, were each arrested and preliminarily charged on two felonies: neglect of a dependent resulting in the boy’s death and abuse of a corpse.
An unidentified teenager was arrested along with the couple on Sunday on a felony charge of abuse of a corpse. The 16-year-old had apparently been living with Arnold and Barnes for several months and acted as the babysitter for Owen and his 6-year-old brother.
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I saw our neighborhood in TX lost to meth. It took 6 years for a quiet rural valley to turn into meth central with dog fighting rings. Hubby and I were going to build our retirement home on that land.
I’ve been looking into the world’s drug problem for the past couple of months and I’m finding that each drug requires it’s own solution.
Oregon has had success with cutting down meth labs by making the main ingredient a prescription, but they haven’t cut down the addiction rate. The dealers are just importing meth instead of making it at home.
I’m thinking that the solution to meth is to understand what caused the epidemic in the first place. Amphetamines were sold OTC until 1970, then made prescription only. As the feds cracked down on it, a way to make concentrated product was invented (meth). Turns out that it’s more compact and profitable for the dealers. The people who want to use amphetamines had their supply of the mild stuff cut off and turned to the bad stuff.
So, one possible solution is to keep meth as illegal as all get-out, but make the amphetamines more available. (We didn’t have an amphetamine epidemic back in the 50’s and 60’s.) Give the addict strict penalties for possessing the bad stuff and give them easier access to a softer choice.
And we’re going to have to realize that there are evil people out there who are going to do evil things - regardless of drugs or alcohol. :(
-— Give the addict strict penalties for possessing the bad stuff and give them easier access to a softer choice. -—
Sounds reasonable to me, and like an example of the rule of unintended consequences.
Yup.
I’m beginning to see that the entire WOD is an example of unintended consequences.
The problem now is getting people to admit that they’ve made a mistake and to change tactics on how we fight the drug problem.
One other thing that I wonder about with the meth issue is this: how many kids were addicted to speed with their ADHD meds and turned to meth as adults because that’s the only way they can feel ‘normal’?
My SIL is a massive ‘drug warrior’, but she takes HDHD meds and put both of her children on it. It’s chemically the exact same thing as methamphetamine.
Aye, and so is death as it is too quick.
Really sorry to hear how your neighborhood went to the dogs. Also hate the idea of dog fighting, even cock fighting makes me want to scream.
The problem seems to have resolved itself after we finally put the pusher on notice that he too might get arrested here. And our resident meth user, who managed to keep his use to a minimum, seems to have stopped altogether. One arrest did wonders for the neighborhood. But this is a pretty conservative town and 90% white, which helps.
I think the “ingredient” is now only sold at drug stores. I do know that a few city drug stores were held up by baddies looking for that particular substance. For those kinds of crimes, the cops are extremely good, relentless, and take no guff.
Even worse, these scum are the ones breeding. The demographic disaster that put Obama in office is fed by this; any surviving offspring of these creatures will probably vote exactly the same as their urban black counterparts.
I read that even with the best re-hab programs,only 5% of addicts can get clean from meth.That’s way worse than opiates.
Yes, it was very impressive that this particular guy stopped using meth. He had a lot of help and support and motivation…plus even when he was using, he exercised for at least an hour a day, ate well, and relaxed with a beer mid-afternoon, at which time he stopped using meth. A friend of mine has been a drug counselor for 20 years, says he never saw anything like it. “Tom is VERY SMART,” was his conclusion.
“where the hell was CPS” — it was a CPS welfare check that uncovered it... they showed up to check and the lowlifes said they couldn’t find their kid...
Drug use is a victimless crime.
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