Oh yours is of course an understandable situation. My cousin was quite similar due to her diagnosis. But the kid I’m talking about was underfed and died of dehydration and given that the details of the above case I think it’s fairly safe to assume it was malnutrition.

My oldest cat is on palliative care for cancer and is down to nine pounds. It makes my heart hurt and my stomach twist to pet her, she’s so damn skinny. I can’t imagine a parent-a parent!- picking up a ten pound 2 old year and just going about their life like that’s okay. As in I sincerely can’t wrap my head around…

Yes, we need a better system, and yes, they are over taxed; but that doesn’t excuse turning a blind eye and not reporting suspicions if you think a child is being mistreated.

I love the joke where a civilian questions a police officer and the police officer is offended and says “I’m The Police. Don’t you know what that means?” And the civilian responds “yeah, that you were mostly a C student in high school.” I recently had an abusive ex boyfriend show up at my job, park outside my…

Since the mother is pushing 50, Imma say that 2 year old is a product of incest.

My son was just shy of 10 lbs AT BIRTH. Fucking hell, there are no words.

I know this was a stressful, urgent situation that affected jinni emotionally, but I don’t think the retelling is accurate. The plate number is the important info, the rest would just be to confirm the info. “California plate 123 XYZ, described as a brown sedan, comes back as a 1985 Crown Victoria. Checks out.”

Thirteen children were shackled to their beds in this house. It’s hard to imagine. People knew they had a large family, and they noticed that they were seldom seen...no one checked on them?

Your child would presumably have a medical diagnosis and history to back her up though. I mean I was significantly underweight and had kind of scary looking black eye type pigmentation as a kid (due to some absorption problems and very allergies) and my parents were checked out. But better they checked and passed then…

It’s almost as if sticking those state agencies with five times the client load and half the funding is having an effect on their ability to do their jobs.

Somehow you can apparently just say, “I’m running a school,” and the state will never do anything to verify that you’re not a bowlcut psycho chaining his offspring to beds for their entire lives. If this is about them scamming education dollars from the state, it goes to a whole new level of insane.

In two seconds, they could have located the driver’s (or car owner’s) address from the DMV. They could have saved that child.

WTF!!! You had the license plate number!!! I’m sure the make of the car is on the car’s registration!

CPS is generally shit though. They remove kids they shouldn’t and don’t remove kids they should. I live in a smaller state than CA and, smaller county than where this occurred. Our CPS is so over stressed that it takes a miracle to really get kids out of bad situations. And even if they actually do get them out-they…

Omg! It is extremely worrisome. I went to a MOPs meeting once with my sister. The topic was Homeschooling. One speaker was a totally normal (to me) mom who was like ‘We realized with our oldest the school system wasn’t meeting our needs so these are the awesome opportunities we afforded our children while…

Home-schooling parents have lobbied for decades at this point to have restricitons on them as loose as possible. Some treat their kids well and provide a healthy learning environment. Some don’t bother to teach their kids at all or do worse like these people did. The state doesn’t have enough resources anyway to keep…

Ugggh likely. And expecting it to be the 29 year old is wishful thinking.

The girl who escaped is 17 but looked 10. Think about how you looked in fourth grade as opposed to how you looked as a junior in high school. She still had the courage and faculties to run and ask for help.

I did this about 10 years ago. Living in an apartment complex and noticed some shady goings on with the people across the courtyard. Kids in and out but never for long and the kids looked unclean and hungry. Went on for awhile and finally I needed to do something. Called the police. The place got raided. Turned out…

In a statement, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said that “The parents were unable to immediately provide a logical reason why their children were restrained in that manner.”