Mom of twins yearned to see a friendly face

RedStar Tribune ^ | 07/08/03 | Tony Kennedy and Paul Gustafson

[Trinity5]

Mom of twins yearned to see a friendly face
Tony Kennedy and Paul Gustafson, Star Tribune,p.

Published July 8, 2003

In the minutes before Naomi Marie Gaines kissed her babies and threw them into the Mississippi River, she pushed them in a stroller up and down the Wabasha Street Bridge in St. Paul, yearning to see a friendly face or other single moms.

She wanted to join the Taste of Minnesota celebration on nearby Harriet Island, but instead she succumbed to the alienation she felt on the bridge. Suddenly, she wanted to kill herself and she didn't want to leave her twin 14-month-old boys behind in a hostile world.

That's what Gaines told police in an interview made public Monday in a second-degree murder charge filed against her in Ramsey County District Court.

Before heading for downtown, Gaines and the boys -- Sincere Understanding Allah and Supreme Knowledge Allah -- had been at a family picnic at Battle Creek Regional Park in St. Paul.

[Trinity5]

Not sure if this has been posted. But another example of Cultural Decline in the Twin Cities. Notice no one is blaming her, only everyone else for failing her.

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[Rummyfan]

"Sincere Understanding Allah and Supreme Knowledge Allah"

Is this a joke?

[CFC__VRWC]

Notice no one is blaming her, only everyone else for failing her.

How long do you suppose it takes Katie Couric to start flacking for her legal defense fund on the Today show, a la Andrea Yates?

[Rummyfan]

"Rhonda Ingram, a family friend, described Gaines as "a wonderful mother" but said the system had failed her."

And more of a joke - a wonderful mother? God save us!

[wideawake]

Wow.

I remember being stranded once in a foreign country after my wallet (with my plane ticket in it!) had been stolen and spending hours trying to find someone who could assist me in some way.

A friendly face would have been a welcome surprise, but none was forthcoming.

Somehow I managed not kill anyone, however.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

In a Bizarro world.

[dead]

I was hoping that somebody would compliment me on my new sneakers yesterday.

Nobody did, so I shot up a grocery store, killing six.

[r9etb]

I figured the mother was white, as it seems usually to be crazy white women who commit these sorts of crimes. The Islamic names for the kids made me wonder, though, and sure enough:

[ken5050]

Listen, considering it's in the RedStarTrib.....I'm surprised that W. isn't being blamed for this..

[ken5050]

Why can't any of those child advocate lawyers defend kids who get stupid names from their parents....

[CFC__VRWC]

And more of a joke - a wonderful mother? God save us!

Why is it that only those women who murder their kids, or those women whose kids grow up to become serial killers, get described as "wonderful mothers"?

[Humidston]

She's kind of attractive, in a soul-less sort of way....

[Lijahsbubbe]

Well, I do blame her for killing her child.

The system for treating mental illness, however, is severely lacking. There is a possibility that this baby could have been saved if there was a better system with the psychiatrists and pschologists.

[CFC__VRWC]

Listen, considering it's in the RedStarTrib.....I'm surprised that W. isn't being blamed for this..

Oh, I'm sure they'll get around to blaming him in jig time.

[Mears]

She gave birth to four kids in this hostile world? Shame on her!

I don't imagine the search for another single black mother would have benn too difficult either.

Those poor babies were doomed at conception with a mother like her.

[Sloth]

I've lost some weight, but nobody at church said anything, so I set fire to the building and picked people off with a rifle as they came running out.

[Alouette]

yearning to see a friendly face

"Friendly face" to a Muslim woman means: "hidden behind a niqab."

[martin_fierro]

"Sincere Understanding Allah and Supreme Knowledge Allah"

Her first choices were Orangejello and Lemonjello.

[EggsAckley]

Sincere Understanding Allah and brother, Supreme Knowledge Allah

Naomi Gaines

"Gaines' friends said Supreme Knowledge is being cared for by his father, Khalid Allah. They described Gaines as a talented rap singer who was nicknamed "Pleasant.""