Color Me Jaded: More Scumbags Neglect Their Kid

Sign Reading: No Guns Children Playing

Am I naïve to think that two-year-old children should be concerned with fingerpainting, “Yo Gabba Gabba”, and discovering shells and seaglass on a beach … and that parents should be encouraging these endeavors?

A recent story out of New Hampshire’s largest city apparently sends a different message.

So Manchester couple Danielle Maxwell and James Currier leave their apartment (with their puppy, I might add) without bringing their toddler, who was found “lying in her own vomit” by police.

Is it wrong, by the way, that all I can hear is Peter Clemenza advising, “Leave the gun, take the cannoli?”

No surprise that “endangering the welfare of a child” has been …

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Chad Evans, Convicted of Murdering Toddler in 2000, is Looking For Sympathy

Photo of Murdered Child Kassidy Bortner

When I became a mother at the age of seventeen, I could suddenly relate to news stories.  The Oklahoma City bombing.  Susan Smith drowning her little boys.  Everything suddenly touched me on an entirely different level when it hit me that I was suddenly responsible for raising a child—no, helping a child survive, when you think about it—in a truly frightening world.

The 2000 murder of 21-month-old Kassidy Bortner, though, is the one that will stay with me forever, a situation I still think about a lot.

Although I was …

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Super Baby Falls Seven Floors From an Open Window and Survives

In an effort to distract everyone from the sombering notion that the GOP is now running the House, I give you, Super Baby.Is there anything better then the ever-so-remarkable story of an adorable baby falling 7 floors to what would appear to be its death, only to bounce off a café awning and land peacefully in the arms of a passerby?  No. …

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