I believe the focus on the blond child is more a deed of the media than the police. As far as I understand, the couple were investigated because of a discrepancy in their children's documentation - they had registered several new births in a 10-month period, and some were fake, I think, and that led to the…

It has been proven by science that I have the exact opposite fashion taste of Jezebel. Kat Dennings is a flawless khaleesi, but this dress is a basic, unfinished-looking mess.

I love this dress in theory, but does anyone else think it gives the optical illusion of making her breasts look lopsided?

Will anyone even remember in two months that there were other children? So damn sad.

The suggestions that they were going to traffic her for sex are sadly possible, as is the possibility that she got more money as a beggar because she wasn't Roma.

No it is out in the open in America, Americans like you need to stop thinking that you are less racist than Brits you are equally vile, also there is tonnes of racism in the US against Roma, Americans are cruel to us as well but it is never acknowledged because we do not matter in the US and most people do not know we…

Yeah it is hard to read. It makes my skin crawl. On the other hand what's a little welfare fraud compared to the alternative? Makes me giddy with relief.

I've read people saying that blonde children bring in better money when begging. :|

I love how Brits and other Europeans call us Americans out on racism but goddamn they are cruel and vicious to Roma, Immigrants that ain't white, Immigrants that are white but filthy commie Catholics, lower social classes, and Americans.

I just figured they would keep her until she was about 12, make sure she has zero life skills, and then sell her to the Russian mafia.

Ugh, I must have my being-kind-to-myself filter on my brain today, because I hadn't entertained the uglier possibility you raise (given her age — I would have gone there if she were older). I really would like to think that their retaining her is an indication that their story is true: they took the girl in from a…

Wow, if they contacted someone not a student this is also a major FERPA violation. Sounds like the VP needs to be taken to task for overriding the decision of his conduct office who initially did the right thing, then this VP also failed to follow title nine in informing the victim of the ongoing investigation. This…

It's really nasty the way the media is fetishizing her blond hair and pale skin. The environment these children were found in was just as unsafe and unsanitary for the other children, but for "some reason" they're only focusing on the little blond girl being found in appalling conditions.

This story is the archetypal self-licking ice cream cone. Absolutely everyone who hears about it gets to revel in a drug-like high of pure self-righteous outrage, uncut with any unnecessary fillers like nuance, context or history. It's the kind of story that every media outlet loves, because the vast majority of their…

Yes. This. There were at least two other minors taken into custody along with "Maria." Has anyone asked about their welfare? Did anyone do a DNA test on them?

See, the thing you're missing here is that by endorsing racial profiling in this case because it led to a proper arrest, you are morally endorsing it in other cases. That's how the law works - and the fact is, you can't know until after the case is over whether or not the ends justified the means.

Racism against Roma people, unlike racism against any other kind of people, is totally legitimate. I know this because some Roma people treated me badly in the past. Roma people are the ONLY people that have ever treated me badly. No other group has criminals in it, especially white Europeans. This is likely due to…

Oh, it reached Jezebel.

What I find so amazing is the way that McInnes talks about the pains of being an alpha male, in a way that makes it sound like he'd rather not do it, and then says, "But ladies are miserable having to fulfill these roles!"

"Emily Yoffe states explicitly that she understands perpetrators are to blame for sexual assault. How on Earth would you know that she doesn't really mean this statement?"