Ah so that’s where all her food went
Those are some bits of makeup away from looking like pizza the hut
The difference is Pizza the Hut actually tasted great.
Im disappointed that the article didnt explain how this went in for so long. She didn’t go to school should be red flag here.
There’s a case going on now in my home state, a boy fell off the radar (homeschooled) since 11 years old I believe. In his 30s now, he set his house on fire to escape, he weighed something like 65 pounds I think it said
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327122/connecticut-captive-stepmom-house-fire
DCF (CPS) was called when he was a child multiple times, but once they moved him to “homeschooling” he became trapped. Utterly horrible.
It’s the same questions comming from our community, how could this happen?
“Home schooling” would be my guess. That’s how most of these cases go.
A 41-page criminal complaint said first responders arrived, claiming the teen “looked to be the size of a 6-8-year-old.”
“She was very, very close to death. Again, 35 pounds at 14 years old,” Duquaine said.
A helicopter brought the teen to Children’s Wisconsin in Wauwatosa. Doctors concerned with organ failure diagnosed her with severe malnourishment.
From the article: Melissa Goodman and Lefever “were extremely obese to the point of being nearly bed-bound, and rarely left the residence.” While the 14 year old nearly starved.
If I was a judge, I’d make sure in jail, they’d all get a similar diet as the one they gave that child.
Until they were almost as small.
Cruelty does not demonstrate righteousness.
Retribution may be born of righteousness but the point is to inflict the same suffering. It may not be righteous but it is just.
“Just”
An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind.
Restitution works towards material conditions being corrected. Justice requires making things right --conditions, capacities, results.
But revenge is just childish emotional indulgence. Prison is revenge, at its core. I’d like to see victims set right as the main result of sentencing.
…An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind…
Or, the one-eyed becme the object lessons in what not do so as to get that eye popped out in the first place.
Examples should be made of those who’d eat themselves into near immobile obesity while their mentally handicapped child is starved to death.
There is no touchy-feelying this one into anything remotely civilized. Which is honestly beside the point…
Regardless of whatever internet arguments we may have out here, once the general population in whatever jail they land in learns what they did, a lost eye may be the least of it.
People that abuse children - don’t have a good time in jail.
If deterrence worked the US wouldn’t have such a high murder rate and drug prohibition in general would actually work.
Examples should be made
Whelp, if deterrence worked the prisons wouldn’t be overflowing. Most murderous bastards are not rational about it.
There is no touchy-feelying this one into anything remotely civilized.
Ah there it is, the rule of law is subject to the Law of the Jungle ethos.
‘They weren’t civilized, why should I be?’ I have explained this issue to toddlers through teens. That is not how it works.
Restitution vs retribution is not touchy-feely FFS. It’s basic ethics. We need more of that in grade school curriculum, along with history.
How many decades does this restitution take to actually make criminally vile behavior stop? I’m no spring chicken and I’ve been waiting for a long time for a train, it seems, that is just not coming.
Fundamentally the issue is that those wretched parents did not care for the child because the girl was handicapped. That’s the kind of spiritual malaise that isn’t going to be easily or ethically changed. It’s hard-wired animal behavior.
The jungle is still where H. Sapeins lives, for all of the lofty proclamations otherwise. Digital watches, indoor plumbing and microwave ovens are only proof of knowledge, not wisdom.
Not saying don’t try… It’s a noble as a grape to do so, but let’s not pretend that we are more than we are at this point in our moral development.
So yeah, throw the goddamned book at them.
Sometimes like with this instance the only thing that can be done is to ensure they do not have the fundamental capacity to inflict such suffering. Take their skulls and let the ravens feast on their corpses, then ensure the victim heals as much as possible.
In cases of extreme child abuse it does.
And this is why you’d never be a judge. You described a punishment that is inherently unconstitutional.
I get it we want to make monsters like this suffer, but that’s not basis for a legal system
Pretty sure that would be considered a cruel punishment
Such a waste of good whale oil. Melt em down to help fund her treatments.
Make sure they are sitting on death row when they do. Fucking monsters.
……and each one of the charged is a minimum 300lbs
Bet they never have to “lay nice and quiet to get what they want” such as basic needs like food.
I hope those people die slowly and painfully.
Look at them. They will.
That website is arse
Not as arse as those people. Man, fuck those people. Monsters.
I can’t even access it
Not available in my region …
