“she doesn’t look bright enough…”?? How can you tell that, Wry? I try not to judge presentability or intelligence based on mugshots, because they invariably SUCK and are taken when folks is at their worst.

Mugshots sure aren’t glamour photos, but on the other hand they do tend to convey an attitude and I look into this woman’s dull eyes and I do not see a bright, articulate, educated or self-educated person who is having a bad day looking back! But I should have said “appear to be bright enough” because it is her photo with her garbled story about the hospital — and her leaving a 10 year old on the side of a highway — that make me think she’s not of great mental ability. For the sake of her SEVEN kids, I hope I’m wrong.

I find myself sympathizing more and more with this mother. Especially now that she’s being denied unsupervised visits with her children.

It’s dawned on me that every time I’ve seen a parent actually treated badly by the courts or DCFS or whomever, they’ve been good parents.

And every time DCFS walked away and ignored the problems, that’s when there were real problems.

So, if the system is against this woman, I find myself wanting to be in her corner.

How despicable is that?

(PS this does not change my opinion that she should NOT have driven off, but it does make sense why she might make a bad decision, being rushed to get back to the hospital for one, having one acting up, and having 5 others just to deal with. Talk about over-stressed.)

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/NEWS01/305090025/1056/COL02

I join you in wondering about the family situation, though. Man, I cannot IMAGINE that many rugruts running around! I’d go batty! I’m so glad everyone is ok in this story, even if she did a dipshit maneuver!!

While I don’t condone leaving the child on the highway, her thinking may of been that if she starts looking around for him while leaving the other six kids unattended, she was running the risk of having all her kids running around on the highway~!

I really don’t think she put even that much thought into it. I still think it was a spur of the moment, pissed parent, I’ll teach HIM, kind of thing. Not necessarily mean, or intentional bad parent shit, just irresponsible and stupid. She still needs to have the danger of the situation impressed upon her. And not going back? Idiocy!

She looks subnormal. Just the kind of person gives us all so much by having put seven packages into our gene pool – thus far.

She looks subnormal. Just the kind of person gives us all so much by having put seven packages into our gene pool – thus far.

I think that’s exactly how it played out, Athena.

I still like my version better. But then, I AM a mean bitch…..

I could see driving a child to wherever, only for another of my children to throw a fit, pulling the ol’ “let me out!” routine. Stressed out and sick of hearing it, I pull over, “daring” him to get out of the car. He actually does. Completely fucking pissed at this point, I take off, fully intending to come back for him, but not immediately. I want this experience to scare him so that I don’t have to deal with it again.

Yep…not the route I would take, but I can totally see it playing out like that.

The sister definitely made a wrong decision. Her kid could have easily been hit on the Freeway. Those things are fucking killers. (Note Hippie hates cars and busy cities/highways).

Should her other children be taken away…..don’t know what their life was like up until this incident. If the mother is known for making asshat decisions on a repeated basis, perhaps some parenting classes would be indicated here.

27 and 7 kids..

Holy fucking baby machine!!! I would also bet the tax payers are supporting all 7 of those kids and her fat ass as well..
In some cases, sterilization should be mandatory..