Posted on 05/23/2015 6:26:36 AM PDT by PROCON
A Maryland woman was found pushing her dead 3-year-old son in a park swing Friday, and authorities say she may have been there for hours.
Diane Richardson, a spokeswoman with the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, said there were no obvious signs of foul play, but it has not been ruled out.
Richardson said authorities are trying to trace the movements of the 24-year-old woman over the last several days “to find out what was going on in her life, what led to this moment.”
Sheriff’s deputies went to the park in La Plata, Maryland at about 7 a.m. after getting a call to check on the welfare of the woman and the child, Richardson said. The officers went to remove the boy from the swing and to give him first aid, but “it was instantaneously clear the child was dead,” she said. There were no signs of trauma to his body.
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I don't know if it's just me or what, but during Obama's reign of terror, weird, abnormal behavior by people seems to have become the norm.
Actually, these type of behaviors and Obama’s two terms are both symptoms of a dying, degenerate culture.
When I first heard this story, my thought was that something happened to the child, and the mother lost her mind. It seems like some kind of denial behavior.
-JT
Our culture is lost and wandering in a wasteland of spiritual desolation. Materialism, dehumanization, selfishness, escapism, and sodomy are what informs most people’s world view.
Not that the above is the cause of this incident, but that is what came to my mind.
Woman in shock over the death of her child? Reliving some moment when the child was alive and at the same place?
That’s what I thought as well. So very sad.
More info on the autopsy will be needed to see if this woman was mentally ill before the death or after (and if that played any sort of role). That being said, I worked at a hospital in my early adulthood with a psych ward. I remember one woman who lost her child to SIDS and then carried around/talked to/cleaned/dressed/bathed/diapered a doll.. about the same size of her child. It was sad and heart breaking. I also had a family friend who lost his teen son to an auto wreck. They had planned on changing his room a few months before his death. The father (after the death) painted, bought furniture, posters etc.. for the room. He talked about his son in the present tense. Grief isn’t always cut and dry. I think it can push good people, sane people, into what many would call “weird” or “abnormal”.
More info on the autopsy will be needed to see if this woman was mentally ill before the death or after (and if that played any sort of role). That being said, I worked at a hospital in my early adulthood with a psych ward. I remember one woman who lost her child to SIDS and then carried around/talked to/cleaned/dressed/bathed/diapered a doll.. about the same size of her child. It was sad and heart breaking. I also had a family friend who lost his teen son to an auto wreck. They had planned on changing his room a few months before his death. The father (after the death) painted, bought furniture, posters etc.. for the room. He talked about his son in the present tense. Grief isn’t always cut and dry. I think it can push good people, sane people, into what many would call “weird” or “abnormal”.
Agree about the symptoms...also symbolic.
As our society and even our churches reject God, we can expect more and more “unnatural” behavior.
That’s heartbreaking stuff right there. I pray I don’t experience that with my kids. I would rather die than to let harm befall any child, but it’s not in my hands all the time.
I would like to know what happened here though. It does sound to me like a mother overcome with grief though.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go hug and kiss my kids.
There are many stories of animals refusing to accept that their babies are dead. One video of pigeons returning to the dead time and again, over a very long period, comes to mind; and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR680gr7PkM
Mother love is one of the most powerful forces on Earth.
Although we don't like it we expect our parents, siblings and spouse to die. We "pre-deal" with it.
But we don't expect our children to die. It is not the natural order of things. So if it happens our minds can snap. We have no defenses in place to deal with it.
I know a number of people that have high school age kids that have dropped out and have no aim, goals, or motivation. They live with the grandparents and sleep or play video games all day. Some are cutting themselves, one from a strong Christian home.
They have no concept of the reality that they have to do a job they often dislike to support themselves.
We live in an entitlement society where the schools are just Marxist moron mills. Kids are never taught the Biblical truth that the earth is cursed because of man’s sin and we must toil to sustain our lives.
Agreed
I suspect the child’s in a much better place.
OBAMA is a symptom of a degenerate culture
I’m about to go out so can’t have any tears now, will watch later. A scene from the Little a House on the Prairie TV show has stuck with me for years. A father holding his deceased son, talking to Charles about his boy who is just sleeping. Just a show, but a heartbreaking scene.
The very worst thing that can befall a parent is the death of their child. My heart goes out to this poor woman, and my prayers up for her.
We have several FReepers here who have lost children and some choose to post their grief or remembrance statement on their homepage.
It's heartbreaking to read these, especially the ones who lost young sons fighting in the War on Terror.
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