This is an extreme case as you know and doesn't justify wholesale destruction civil rights for everyone pre-emptively. In any event, the fathers of these children, (who I notice are never mentioned - where are they?) are also free to have more children and abandon them to their fate. Some people with drug problems do awful things, sometimes awful things to children. And not just women. If a drug addicted person does harm someone else, particularly a child, we should put them in jail for a long, long time.
This case came to national attention only because a child died.
Hundreds of thousands of children in the U.S. face unbelievably harsh conditions daily at the hands of people like Williams/Murphy.
We have neither the political will to take the children away from them nor to sterilize them -- what should we do to protect the innocent children ??
The deadbeat dads are equally responsible -- beyond a vasectomy, I would be pleased to castrate them as well.