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How this boy was treated as lower than a pest

IcalasariIcalasari
edited 2011-05-23 14:37:42 in General
No rainbow star
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/22/greene.missing.boy/index.html?hpt=T2 :( I'm still trying to think of puns to try to make it as distant as possible and kill any sadness I get from knowing about it
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  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    edited 2011-05-23 14:42:22
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Some people, I hope they are found guilty and locked away.

    "...placed a Bible on his chest..."
    Wow, how christian of them

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    edited 2011-05-23 14:43:59
    No rainbow star
    ^ Locked away is too good for them. Death is too good for them. Soul rending torture is too good for them, but we have nothing worse than that so it is what they should get
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    edited 2011-05-23 14:46:15
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    ^
    No. I don't agree with that, but I'm not that enamoured with turning this thread into a debate on why.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    ...how bad must his mother have been that this guy got custody of him, especially considering mothers are already more likely to get custody?
  • AHRAHR
    I feel kinda sick now.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    I always wonder what it must be like inside the minds of people like this. People who kill for money or political causes I can at least wrap my head around, but pointless cruelty like this just seems impossible to understand.

    If the children were old enough to try and slip him food, surely they must have known this was wrong? Aren't they complicit?
  • AHRAHR
    Why DID they do this?
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    Because they're that kind of person, presumably. When you have people like that, most humans can't really understand, I don't think.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    Some humans aren't people.
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-05-23 15:03:08
    But...why the boy? Why? It would just cause bad things to happen like this in the long run. Why not just give him up for adoption if you hate the bugger?
  • snowbullsnowbull
    edited 2011-05-23 15:11:15
    Cue-bey
    Because then they couldn't torture him. If you really, really, hate someone, you aren't just going to give him up when you've got him.

    I wonder, was the boy aware his father was such a monster? Do children ever get to say 'daddy tortures and starves me" in custody hearings? Background checks?

    EDIT: Now that I've thought about it, someone would have to be pretty messed up to have a child and/or marry a person like this. Maybe custody was a choice between bad and worse that the extent of wasn't immediately obvious.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Jesus fucking Christ.

    I literally can't think of anything to say to that article.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Truly man has fallen from the glory of Eden....
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    edited 2011-05-23 15:29:10
    Kichigai birthday!!
    Can I have a summary of the article? I don't want to be excessively(excessivaly?) depressed
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    ^Custody of boy given to father after divorce, boy tortured, killed, Bible placed on chest in good Christian custom, no one finds out for 2 years.

    "Christian’s mother, Aimee Estrada, said she left Choate after he began abusing her."

    This just adds another layer of WTF icing. How the hell does the guy abusing his wife in a divorce end up getting custody of the children?
  • BobBob
    ...what
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!
    What a fucked up society we live in...
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    edited 2011-05-23 15:40:32
    Tableflipper
    I don't think the society itself is really at much fault here.
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!
    That's what happens when I don't read articles.


  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    I actually didn't read it either because I find it too hard to care. Just saw the summary and other's comments.
  • BobBob
    too hard to care

    Aah, Edmania. Never change.
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    I've read too many articles about shitty things like this for another to faze me.
  • ElbeemElbeem
    I don't think the other minors in the household are complicit, as the article states they were threatened with the same treatment he got if they ever told anyone.
  • BobBob
    "Oh god, another article about a kid being tortured? LAME."
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    ^^What about the one who actually helped out with the torture?
  • MorvenMorven
    Child of Darkness
    As minors, they weren't free to choose for themselves.  Given that example of what would happen to them if they displeased their father, I can largely excuse anything.
  • SammySammy
    "Why DID they do this?"

    Mental illness in all likelihood.
  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2011-05-23 16:30:59
    Has friends besides tanks now
    Jesus, the treatment of this kid would have been completely excessive in fiction. Knowing that it actually happened, and that no one knew cared, or was able to report it for so long is . . . to refrain from being more dramatic than I am fazed by this, disappointing.

    I've read enough shitty stories like this that I can't bring myself to be heart-wrenched, but the sheer variety of these types of cases is ridiculous.
  • DebossDeboss
    TLDR, did the kid actually deserve to be treated like a lawyer?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    My dad's a lawyer, asshole.
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