Man, he’s gonna be pissed when someone reads this article to him.

These aren’t isolated cases. Stealing babies seems to have been common policy in many countries. It happened in Canada, too. The National Post did a series of articles in 2012 on women who had their babies stolen in hospitals up until the early nineties. I don’t know what the racial breakdown was for the mothers, but…

Statutes of limitations aren’t just based on how heinous the crime was, but how difficult it gets to prove as time goes on. I’d expect it would be super difficult to prove what happened to this girl after 50 years. Nobody working at the hospital or adoption agency would still be working, and most wouldn’t be in any…

Until her daughter showed up, this mother believed her baby was dead. She reasonably believed this based on information received from the hospital professionals.

Yeah...I’m thinking the motivation was not cash but rather the same motivation that motivated the homes for unwed mothers in (especially) Ireland all the way up to the 60’s or the stealing of Native American children to be placed into white families: the supposed well-being of this poor unfortunate child who happened…

There’s a concept in most states called “the discovery rule,” where the clock doesn’t start running until you know or should have known there was an actionable event (like stealing a baby). It usually goes hand-in-hand with “tolling,” where the clock also doesn’t start until the wrongdoing is discovered. Tolling means…

Exactly! cheezus knows I was dumb kid! Grown people shouldn’t make fun of children

Sure every kid is a little shit sometimes but I can with 100% certainty say that at 8 I was not putting strange things in my mouth. I cannot say the same thing for 30 year old me though.

*raises hand* Not that I’ve actually done it, but yeah. Would do. (Late at night when there are no people around, obvs, but some people are into sex in public places. Ahem.)

you win. dear god, you win. amazing.

They’re shielding the identity of the child for his privacy, but you know, its not out of the question that this child does have developmental disabilities. Lots of kids do. It’s also possible he was acting on a dare, was bullied into doing it, or all kinds of other things. I don’t really see the point in scrutinizing…

Don’t even think about it.

People are so effing lazy. It’s like those assholes that leave their shopping cart in the lot because they can’t be bothered to walk 5 fucking feet to put it back properly. Geezus! This poor kid.

Seems like Jesus has an inferiority complex.

Our children were created for friendship with Christ. Before anything else, this is their chief purpose in life: to be Christ’s friend.

Stories like this are the perfect antidote to stories about cat killing vets or that AWFUL “Letter from Jesus” story I read.

My son’s on the autism spectrum. He’ll be turning 8 next month, and we’re not doing a party because I’m afraid this exact thing will happen to him. (We’re taking him to an amusement park instead)

Yeah surely the parents got the invites? Children are frequently assholes but for all the parents to not have their children attend is inexcusable.

We’ve eliminated a handful of positions and refocused our company-wide talent to address departments that need support and cut redundancies.

This was bound to happen. Kim was, 100% without a doubt, in relapse this season. And she was vicious in her denial rages to the other housewives, who I believe had only good intentions (as far as that goes on any reality show).