[southern rock]

This whole story is sickening from start to finish. There is no excuse. Not only has this woman showed the world her poor mothering skills, people are now applauding the use of surveillance camera's on the American Public, and CPS (which has a dubiuos reputation in some states) just scored a round of applause. Are we slowly being acclimated to public surveillance by video?

TigersEye had a very god point on another thread about this topic. He said (to paraphrase) that the government seems to like to set their sights on somewhat flawed or strange individuals when searching for folks to make an example of. Thus the govt. can usually garner public sympathy for themselves in these cases despite their going waaaay over the line in destroying a human being's life. And you know what? It is TRUE!

[sinkspur]

He said (to paraphrase) that the government seems to like to set their sights on somewhat flawed or strange individuals when searching for folks to make an example of. Thus the govt. can usually garner public sympathy for themselves in these cases despite their going waaaay over the line in destroying a human being's life. And you know what? It is TRUE!

So you and ole Tiger think "the State" set this whole thing up? If you remember, at first nobody knew who this woman was, only that she was beating her kid in the face with her fists. Even then the DA said she was guilty of child abuse.

The fact that she's an Irish Traveller, and may have beaten her child because she didn't go along with a possible scam only adds to Toogood's disgrace.