Posted on 02/05/2005 3:49:43 AM PST by beaversmom
Landlord spots centerfold from Hustler magazine in boy's room, calls deputies
The Bakersfield Californian
Posted: Friday February 4th, 2005, 11:30 PM Last Updated: Friday February 4th, 2005, 11:42 PM
It's not every mother who would put up a Hustler centerfold picture in her 2-year-old son's room.
KW Associates, Realtors Just because he asked her to.
It might have just been a parenting issue for the mom, Marisa Nicole Sivesind of Bakersfield, who reportedly said she put up the graphic picture because she didn't want her son to call her vulgar names, Kern County sheriff's reports say. She allegedly told a deputy that it was her son who asked her to buy the porn magazine a week earlier when they were in a liquor store.
As the boy was thumbing through the magazine in a bedroom he shares with his 1-year-old sister, he picked out the centerfold of a nude woman purportedly named "Lexi Marie."
He asked his mom to put it up on the bedroom wall. That's where an apartment manager saw it and reported the incident to authorities.
Deputies arrested Sivesind on Jan. 21 in the 600 block of Morning Drive after a neighbor and a landlord reported the matter to the deputies.
Sivesind is charged with providing harmful matter to a minor.
The 22-year-old mother was also charged with a misdemeanor criminal threat, for allegedly threatening to kill a neighbor.
The alleged threat came as Sivesind sat in a patrol car and saw her neighbor taking the 2-year-old to a social worker, the reports say.
The threat was "I'm going to get you," but later, as she was being booked into jail, she reportedly said, "I might be going for six hours this time, but I'll go for 25-to-life for murder the next time."
The threats came after she allegedly called her neighbor the same bad names she didn't want her son to call her.
Sivesind pleaded not guilty to both charges Friday and was set for a pretrial hearing Feb. 25 in Kern County Superior Court.
She is free from jail after posting bond.
This country COULD benefit from a few more people minding their own business,and not calling the police or ACLU every time they see something they don't like.
If you're not joking, you are as whacked out as this woman is. The children are not in "the horrors of no parent". The will be given to a foster family. Most foster parents are good, decent people.
I'm with you on this. Can such a young child really have any idea what the picture was about? If a parent wants her child to get used to the idea of naked human bodies at a young age, so be it, that's their right. Not everyone should be forced to have the same unreasonable taboos with regards to human skin.
If that were the sum total of this story I'd agree with you. Although Hustler usually shows a little more than just a naked body.
Can such a young child really have any idea what the picture was about? ...
Good question and that's where this story takes a big u-turn from reality. From the simple issues of parental rights, privacy and nudity. Do two year olds talk? I guess some do but how many form cogent coherent sentences like "Mom, if you put this picture on my wall I won't call you dirty names anymore." That's a mighty big psychological concept for a 2 yr old. How many 2 yr olds "thumb" through magazines? Paw through and mangle maybe, but thumb? Then this woman has the presence of mind to threaten to murder the neighbor in front of police officers.
Oh yeah, she's just a mom doing her best who feels her rights were trampled on. You betcha! The implications of those statements make putting up a Hustler centerfold seem mundane.
"It might have just been a parenting issue for the mom, Marisa Nicole Sivesind of Bakersfield, who reportedly said she put up the graphic picture because she didn't want her son to call her vulgar names..."
Huh?!
People still have rights even if they are not sinless themselves, and I would be pretty livid as well if I saw someone trying to take my child. It's valid to question whether a nude pin-up on the wall is sufficient cause to take a person's children away from them.
The parenting part certainly could be better, but put her in jail for this (at tax payers' expense, I may add)?
True. What's your point?
... and I would be pretty livid as well if I saw someone trying to take my child.
Who wouldn't? How many will go out of their way to make explicit death threats with LEOs for witnesses? Would you?
It's valid to question whether a nude pin-up on the wall is sufficient cause to take a person's children away from them.
It is also valid to point out that there is far more cause than the pin-up here to suspect that this woman is imbalanced. Highly imbalanced. Do you think there might have been other clues that this article doesn't report?
(raising hand meekly)
A two year old?
Come to California...
WHAT is wrong about this, is landlords and the state coming into their home, and arresting the mother, this is bad, nobody should have the right to tell people what they can or cant hang on their walls, what is the next step, maybe the neighbor will be peeking into someones home and find some religous icon they dont like,this stinks of commie crap .
As a landlord, I was wondering the same thing.
the democrat plantation in action!
A two year old?
That was my point.
Morning Allegra, pleased to see you around. Ignore the other guy ...... he's not even a member of the Curmudgeons Union and I intend to report him to the local! ;-0
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