My city is not kid friendly. To sum it up the infant mortalilty rate is off the chart here. Infant deaths no matter what part of town rich or poor are high. People drink people smoke and then are surprised their kid is still born or dies in the womb.

To top it off people here leave kids in hot cars regularly and the kids die of heat stroke. I could expand on it but I am tired and disgusted.

Does this happen in Great Britain as well? What about other cities in the US. Are people as stupid as they are in this city? grrrrrrrrrr

Yes they do happen a lot these days. In fact my city out-side minneapolis has one of the worst kinds of child negligence in the states.Less thenthreeweeks agotwo different women left their young children in the back seat of their cars to die in the hot sun. Not even one of them served one day in jail.

On the other hand, the most sick sh*t that has been happening in here are many women leaving their fetuses in city rest rooms. Few weeks ago there was one lady, that was in club in the downtown area, and left her fetus in the restroom and went back to the club to dance. WTF.

Well this problem is as worse here as well.....last summer there were at least 3 published incidents where by the mothers abandoned theirchildren to go on hollidays...:P:PFortunately here the judges are a bit tough and the sick lot got sent down for their crimes...

Then there is the worst murderous ones like the one involving two little African kids.....the first one the Auntie and her evil boyfriend beat the little tot to death.....by the time she died she had hundreds of injuries on her body.....the most recent one was the Angolan women who beat up their niece and tried to kill her because they claim that she is possessed by witchcraft........but justice was served the whole lot were jailed.....

Crime against children is an epidemic at the moment the world over.....its just awful

<<Crime against children is an epidemic at the moment the world over.....its just awful>>



Its very very depressing

I thought what was killing most of these kids was darting in and out of traffic like little fools.

It seems that when I was a kid we had more sense than these little sucklings have today.

We knew how to ride bikes at 5, knew how to cross the street by ourselves at 6, played ball in the street, and knew how to get out of the way when a car is comming.

Now I see niccaz rolling around on bikes old enough to have hairy legs and mustaches getting caught in the middle of inner-sections and raising ruckus in the traffic because they don't know how to get out of the way.

Little kids darting in and out of traffic like squirrels.

Every time I turn on the news now I see a picture of some little boy with a big forehead on after he got hit by a car while his mother was upstairs sleep.

Teddy bears and tennis shoes piling up at the scene.

Seem like most people born since 1980 ain't worth a damn.

this story really shocked me ...so sad



Couple are jailed for killing child because he was not perfect
By Nick Britten
(Filed: 14/01/2005)

A wealthy couple who killed their three-year-old adopted son because he was not the "perfect child" they craved were jailed for five years yesterday.

Ian and Angela Gay became incensed that Christian Blewitt didn't live up to their expectations of the ideal family.










Christian Blewitt was force fed salt

Five weeks into an adoption trial period, as their frustration grew, they force-fed him more than four teaspoons of salt as a punishment for refusing his food before dumping him in a cot, where he collapsed. He suffered severe brain injuries, a heart attack and died in hospital four days later.

The prosecution alleged that he had also been either beaten or shaken after doctors found that he had 11 areas of bruising around the brain.

The couple, who had also adopted Christian's younger brother and sister, were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.

Sentencing them at Worcester Crown Court, Mr Justice Pitchers said Christian's behaviour was "hardly out of the ordinary" for a three-year-old, even one that hadn't had Christian's "difficult start" in life. He was taken into care shortly after his first birthday and then spent time with foster parents.










Angela Gay: ‘selfish’

He said the Gays, from Halesowen, West Midlands, were "intelligent people" and had made "a deliberate choice in cold blood" how to punish Christian.

He accepted that it was a single episode of abuse and that they were unaware the dose would prove fatal.

He accused Angela Gay, 37, of being "entirely selfish". Her return to work as Christian lay critically ill showed "where her priorities lay". He added: "You were interested only in what was best for you, not what was best for him.''

As sentence was passed, the Gays held hands and showed no emotion. Having left the dock they embraced before being led away separately.

Mrs Gay's parents, Margaret and Royston Swain, both 61, said they were "completely devastated" by the verdicts. Mr Swain said: "Angela has worked hard all her life and was one of the few actuaries in the UK. She would have been the perfect mother.'' Christian's natural mother, Tracey Osik, 23, said: "I was furious when I heard that they only got five years. It should have been life after what they did to Christian. I might not have been the best mother but they had all the advantages."










Christian Blewitt with his natural mother Tracey Osik

Christian's maternal grandmother, Susan Osik, said her daughter "didn't give a damn" about her son or what happened to him, preferring to spend her time nightclubbing.

She said: "Tracey wasn't looking after him properly. All his clothes were wet. I was concerned about his health. He started losing a lot of weight. He had to go to hospital on a drip.

"He didn't have much but that couple had everything. They should have been able to give Christian, his brother and sister a far better life.

"They should have looked after him properly. Five years isn't enough. It was very cruel, and they should throw away the key."

Det Ch Insp Steve Cullen, from West Mercia police, said: "Christian led a brief life and we can at least be thankful that the period he spent with his foster carers were happy times. We are pleased that justice has been done for Christian today."