Posted on 04/22/2016 7:49:29 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: ‘Pure evil’ Ohio stepmom charged with murder after sticking 4-year-old in bath of scalding water as punishment
A “pure evil” Ohio stepmom killed her 4-year-old stepson by sticking him in a bath of scalding water as a horrific punishment, officials said.
Anna Ritchie was indicted Monday for the March death of little Austin Cooper.
Prosecutors said the 25-year-old — who now faces murder, involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault and endangering children charges — resented being the tot’s stepmother and used the 130-degree soaking as a sick form of punishment.
“Anna Ritchie is pure evil,” Austin’s grandma Sheri Gredig said, adding that the heartless stepmom deserves a life prison sentence.
Ritchie drew a bath of boiling water last month and held the boy down in it for at least 20 minutes, prosecutors said. When she finally let him out, the crying child was bleeding and blistered skin was coming off of his legs — but the cruel caregiver sent him to bed without any treatment from a medical professional.
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“Mothers can claim postpartum depression in court cases where they murder their children.”
Not this time. Children’s fairy tales are loaded down with stores of the “evil wicked stepmother” out to kill off the kids of her new husband.
I think I’ve read somewhere that kids are more abused by step parents and the parents new boyfriend/girlfriend than real parents is why I asked that other FReeper about those stats.
As for biological mothers:
Some can claim postpartum or other illness, like Andrea Yates, she had a past history of mental illness. Her husband took her off Haldol so she could get pregnant again. Haldol causes serious birth defects. People off their Haldol do what she did.
When it’s Susan Smith who did not then we know she’s just evil.
This happens more frequently in urban communities.
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