Reply #105: A sadistic control freak is just that, regardless of the victim

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First, apologies to everyone for the length, but...

It appears that you are confusing legalities with common sense. While it's true that a Judge may be legally forced to allow the most heinous parents to retain/regain custody, that doesn't mean it's right or wise to do so. By your logic serial killers, rapists and pedophiles, if ever achieving parole, should be considered acceptable as parents, until they prove otherwise. As someone who works with children, you KNOW that most abuse is never detected/reported/punished. Also as someone who places children back into abusive situations due to legal requirements, you KNOW children are frequently further abused and sometimes killed by those parents.

I can't help but wonder if your zeal to give a torturer the benefit of the doubt is due to your apparent guilt connected to your occupation. Your rationalization that these evil scumbags deserve the right to abuse innocent children because they got knocked up, smacks of the view that children are possessions and not people with the right to be protected from harm, regardless of the source.

Also, it IS illegal to provide alcohol etc. to children, why not also via the blood stream? It's completely illogical to suggest that that period of growth is any less important or deserving of protection. As anyone with any knowledge of fetal development knows, you can totally destroy a babies health by drinking/drugging while pregnant. BTW, NO I'm not part of the "rabid right", my views are as far left as you can get.

Finally, consider if you will, that this person is facing up to 38 YEARS in prison because of her crimes. Prison sentences are used to punish and to PROTECT SOCIETY FROM PEOPLE WHO POSE TANGIBLE THREATS. She has NO respect for the law, as demonstrated by her defense of her right to torture. Why would you expect she would obey the laws with respect to defenseless children, any more than she did for defenseless prisoners.

A sadistic control freak is a sadistic control freak regardless of the victim.