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And this case...

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DALLAS — Police today arrested a 14-year-old boy accused of causing the
death of his 6-year-old foster sister by body slamming her at least four
times.

DeSoto police investigators said the boy threw Katherine Frances to the
ground on Sunday, causing her to be hospitalized.

Katherine died Tuesday. Doctors said she had suffered severe head trauma and
was brain dead. Her biological mother, Marbella Frances, said she decided to
disconnect the child from a life support system.

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Some people lose children they truly love, and some people just aren't meant
to have children. It baffles me why a couple would choose to kill their own
kids because they're not up to their standards of perfection, and then mourn
their loss, as if they loved them just the way they were. "A person is a
person, no matter how small," but brain damage is another matter entirely.
They act like spoiled kids who got a used bicycle for Christmas, instead of
the shiny new mountain bike they asked for.

14-year-old DeSoto boy accused in death of foster child

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Who would have thought this same couple who used some discarded other living embryos would be also the same type to pull the plug on life support? (other than me) Some have it really tough, trying, chucking rejects, trying and almost succeeding and then having to chuck the rejects and then starting again.

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SAN JACINTO - People ask Mark and Teri Blanton why they continue to mourn
the loss of their infant twins after all this time.

Mark Blanton's answer is simple: "A person is a person, no matter how
small."

For the fourth year, the Hemet couple will host a candlelight vigil for
bereaved parents. It will be held Dec. 10 at Valley-Wide Recreation and Park
District headquarters in San Jacinto.



Mark Blanton said it took him and his wife almost four years to conceive a
child. They spent nearly $150,000 to have their sperm and eggs harvested and
artificially joined. Some of the embryos were frozen for later use, but one
implant ended up splitting to become the twins.

There were also a couple of adoption efforts along the way.

Chance Alan Blanton arrived premature, weighing 1 pound, 6 ounces and
measuring just under 12 inches long. Chase came three minutes later at 1
pound, 7 ½ ounces and 11 ½ inches long.

Initially, it seemed like they would survive, Mark Blanton said, but six
days later doctors at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center said the
boys had developed serious bleeding in the brain.

"We wanted our sons to have lives, just not live. Under these conditions,
they wouldn't," Teri Blanton said.

The couple decided to remove them from life support. Chance died early Dec.
27 and his brother followed later that day.

"When we left the hospital the night of the 27th carrying two memory boxes
instead of two healthy twin babies, I told Mark I couldn't try again," Teri
Blanton said. "He gently grabbed my chin to make me look at him and simply
said, 'What if my mom would have given up, I wouldn't be here.' "

In 2004, another of the couple's frozen embryos was implanted. Today, Rylee
is a healthy 2-year-old, and Teri Blanton is again pregnant.

Vigil in San Jacinto to remember children who died

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