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Girlfriend sentenced to life in scalding death of toddler
The Oakland Press ^ | 7-23-05 | Korie Wilkins

Posted on 07/23/2005 4:08:06 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan

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To: Dan from Michigan

Problems like that won't happen after our Republican congressmen help the Democrats to vote in favor of more funding for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Letitia Johnson will learn that "males" in general forced her to do anything that she did wrong, and all will be fine.

[...little sarcasm and irony there.]


21 posted on 07/23/2005 5:51:36 PM PDT by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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22 posted on 07/23/2005 5:52:02 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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Letitia Johnson, 28, will spend the rest of her life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder earlier this month.

I doubt it.

23 posted on 07/23/2005 5:54:09 PM PDT by Logophile
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Letitia Johnson, 28, will spend the rest of her life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder earlier this month.

I doubt it.

24 posted on 07/23/2005 5:55:38 PM PDT by Logophile
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"Miss Johnson has maintained the fact that this was not a deliberate action on her part,"

Yeah, I hold toddlers in scalding water by accident all the time.

25 posted on 07/23/2005 6:22:52 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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"I didn't hurt that baby. I didn't."

Well WTF did the baby die from then?

26 posted on 07/23/2005 6:23:24 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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"This was a total accident," she said. "I didn't hurt that baby. I didn't. I admit to my mistakes."

If she didn't hurt this baby what mistakes is she admitting to? Barf

27 posted on 07/23/2005 6:47:28 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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Mrs Burf says maybe she never gave one of her own kids a bath. She may have a point there.
28 posted on 07/23/2005 7:03:49 PM PDT by Burf (We'll all be drinking that free Bubble Up and eatin' that Rainbow Stew.)
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"What the defendant did to this baby, a helpless toddler, is unthinkable," he said.

I've read of several cases of children being deliberately scalded.

Anton Chekhov wrote a short story called "In the Ravine" at least 100 years ago where your unthinkable was thinkable. I don't know where he got the idea for the story which can be read online here

One of the saddest stories I ever read; I had a terrible time remembering the title and finally found it, but not the date it was written. An exerpt:

"Give it here," said Aksinya, looking at her with hatred, and snatching the chemise out of the trough; "it is not your business to touch my linen! You are a convict's wife, and ought to know your place and who you are."

Lipa gazed at her, taken aback, and did not understand, but suddenly she caught the look Aksinya turned upon the child, and at once she understood and went numb all over.

"You've taken my land, so here you are!" Saying this Aksinya snatched up the ladle with the boiling water and flung it over Nikifor.

After this there was heard a scream such as had never been heard before in Ukleevo, and no one would have believed that a little weak creature like Lipa could scream like that. And it was suddenly silent in the yard.

Aksinya walked into the house with her old naive smile. . . . The deaf man kept moving about the yard with his arms full of linen, then he began hanging it up again, in silence, without haste. And until the cook came back from the river no one ventured to go into the kitchen and see what was there.

VIII

Nikifor was taken to the district hospital, and towards evening he died there. Lipa did not wait for them to come for her, but wrapped the dead baby in its little quilt and carried it home.

29 posted on 07/23/2005 7:32:33 PM PDT by Aliska
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