Posted on 03/23/2006 8:22:18 PM PST by Number57
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"Grace Hunt, 22, cried as a court magistrate read the charges at her arraignment today in Montcalm County. She faces two counts of murder – open murder and felony murder -- for the death of three-month-old Jadelyne Schenden from starvation. According to the court records, the baby died on or around January 4 at Hunt’s Greenville apartment.
Hunt’s next-door neighbor, David Jeanette, said he knew her from high school. He said he often heard loud commotion coming from her apartment. “She had a few children, sometimes you would hear stuff going on over there. It got quite crazy sometimes.”
Andrea Tavor, the director of Community Health and Education for the Mid-Michigan District Health Department, say there are symptoms and warning signs one should recognize if they think a child is not receiving proper nutrition.
“Dehydration would be a sign of malnutrition as well. The child or infant would seem tired or fatigued, weaker, not really responsive to maybe you speaking to it, as well as having difficulty fighting common childhood diseases and that’s one reason unfortunately they may die or suffer long term consequences.”
The Michigan Department of Human Services says there were 52 child-abuse related deaths in 2004.
Hunt is facing life in prison. She has been appointed a court attorney and will make her next court appearance April 3."
Video on site.
I'm sorry, but I can imagine this girl getting far less time than a man accused of the same. Just watch the video.
Lock her up and deny her food. Best diet ever for this worm.
Starving a child... unbelievable. I would die of starvation in order to give my children the last morsel of edible food available.
Beastly
some people should be forcibly sterilized...
Most... the MAJORITY... of people would do the same. It's inhumane.
Here is another story I was just reading that makes you sick, from Afghanistan, where were are supposedly building a new democracy.
Married at the age of four, an Afghan girl was subjected to years of beatings and torture, finally escaping to discover that within all the world's cruelty, there is also some kindness.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Eleven-year old Gulsoma lay in a heap on the ground in front of her father-in-law. He told her that if she didn't find a missing watch by the next morning he would kill her. He almost had already.
Enraged about the missing watch, Gulsoma's father-in-law had beaten her repeatedly with a stick. She was bleeding from wounds all over her body and her right arm and right foot had been broken. ... read it all.
I think Bush and Codi had better rethink what we are trying to accomplish. Unless we stop his brutal cult, kill all those sick Imam's and give them a better religion, it's pointless to install just more of the same, spending the treasure and blood of the nation for what?
Words escape me. If she did not want the child why didn't she put it up for adoption?
I read that yesterday. Horrific.
Bet she is a christian.
anyone? $5
I'm not going to make a call on this just yet. I knew someone who was very intelligent and very well to do whose infant daughter was very close to dying because she was breastfeeding and everytime she took the baby to the doctors office they said "just keep breastfeeding!" even though the mom knew something was wrong....found out later that the mom wasn't getting enough milk but you can't measure that like in a bottle. So she just assumed that the baby was getting enough. Finally, after the baby was malnourished the doctors decided she could bottle feed with formula.
We have this huge propoganda machine out there for new moms right now and for the last decade that make a new mom out to be a BAD mom if they don't strictly breastfeed! They never want a mom to give up or supliment with formula.NEVER!!! And some babies have died in the past for this very reason...its been on dateline a time or two.
Lucky for her that she isn't in Texas or else she would be facing death.
It's painless, even pleasurable. This mother is a hero for carrying out her baby's wishes and should start a PAC.
I, too, have heard of such cases. A magazine reported an interview with a mother, where she said she could count the bones on her baby's body, and finally the medical staff said "look, we shouldn't say this, but unofficially ... maybe you should start her on a bottle." Previous to that, they had been telling the mother that to cease breastfeeding at an early age was evidence of abuse.
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