I can not believe this ... past sad ...

[littlewolf]

Ten-day-old baby dies after going through entire spin cycle in washing machine
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 1:43 AM on 8th November 2010
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A ten-day-old baby girl died after being placed in a washing machine as it went through an entire spin cycle.
The newborn's mother Lyndsey Fiddler put her daughter into the washing machine along with a pile of laundry.
The tiny baby was inside the top loading washing machine for up to 40 minutes before being discovered.

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A relative who called in to see Fiddler found her passed out and the baby, called Maggie May, missing.
n a frantic call to emergency dispatchers 26-year-old Fiddler is heard saying :'My baby is dead

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Police have charged Fiddler with second degree manslaughter after initially arresting her on drug charges.

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An investigation revealed it had gone through a full-spin cycle before she was discovered.
Bartlesville Police Chief Tom Holland said Coshatt had called in to see Fiddler, who has two other boys , to see how she was coping with her newborn daughter

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The young mother had been arrested in April for taking drugs when she was four months pregnant.
She is suspected of being hooked on crystal meth and taking the drug the night her daughter died.
Holland said Coshatt walked into a grim scene.
'The mother was asleep and she had trouble waking her and heard the washer out of balance, clanging, so went to lift the lid so it would stop and in the washing machine, saw the baby,' Holland said.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327463/Ten-day-old-baby-dies-going-entire-spin-cycle-washing-machine.html#ixzz14ejceADP

[Ken Burch]

1. Beyond beyond sad.

If I didn't have to go out to work tomorrow, I'd probably hide under the bed for the next week.

Dear God.

They WILL be taking the other kids away, won't they?

[littlewolf]

3. yes child protective services has them ...

[ingac70]

2. Get a load of this tweaker...

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Hope she's in jail until her ovaries give out.

Is there anybody out there who doesn't think that child would have been better off being aborted in the 1st trimester?

[dsc]

4. and let's just remember if she lived in Arkansas

she would be able to adopt children before Barney Frank, Dan Choi, Clay Aiken, or any other gay American could.

[JI7]

17. i bet those opposed to gays adopting would rather have this person adopt

even after what she has done than a gay person or couple.

[Ken Burch]

5. One qualifier, though...this is from the Daily Mail, a right-wing UK scandal sheet

They have been known to make things up or at least exaggerate them from time to time, especially when it comes to people receiving social benefits.

It COULD be true, but...beware...

[littlewolf]

7. If this was in UK I would agree ... this happened in OK ...

a buddy sent it to me ... he likes to see how high he can push my BP .....

[w8liftinglady]

10. it could have very easily happened in Ellis or Henderson Counties,Texas

Horrible meth problem here.
the kids are the ones who suffer most.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. The Tulsa media are all over this story

The Tulsa World (newspaper). KOTV (Channel 6) and KRMG (AM radio station) all have news articles about this.

[Ken Burch]

16. OK.

When I made the original post, I'd assumed it was an English story.

[Terra Alta]

6. The mother was taking drugs while pregnant?

Why wasn't the baby immediately taken from the mother at birth? This is sad beyond words. I hope the mother never again sees the light of day.

[kath]

19. Her family TRIED to have her parental rights terminated before she gave birth

to this baby. But our frikkin' court system is always so averse to terminating rights...

From the article in OP: "Family members had been concerned about Fiddler because of her past drug use.

Earlier this year they had tried to get her parental rights revoked before the birth of her third child.
The young mother had been arrested in April for taking drugs when she was four months pregnant.
She is suspected of being hooked on crystal meth and taking the drug the night her daughter died."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327463/Ten-day-old-baby-dies-going-entire-spin-cycle-washing-machine.html#ixzz14fQyXIbl

The dad, of course, also does not seem to be exactly a winner - if he is the Benjamin Allen Trammel Bartlesville, born 1978, in Washington Co. OK court records, there is a possession charge, a domestic abuse charge, 2 evictions, and paternity/custody issues (with a woman other than the mother of this poor infant). Lovely.

[XemaSab]

8. Jesus Christ

x(

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Lord 10 years of EMS really jaded me

it actually does not surprise me one bit...

Yes, call me jaded... and no, don't ask for some of the worst calls, ok.

[w8liftinglady]

11. 25 years as an ICU/ER nurse has made me jaded,too.

I feel it-what you're talking of...
see it every day,every time I go to a local store...see the kids walking home...I can spot them a mile away.
It sucks,man.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Yep it really does

And sometimes I am still "suckered" into helping people... way I see it, if I am getting scammed it is on THEM.

[littlewolf]

13. I understand .. vol EMR ....

so far the worse calls have been to cut drunks out of their cars .... most are gone
by the time we get there .... the other ones are teen moms
who don't know they are PG .... so no prenatal .. no nothing ...
fun fun fun delivery in the back of the ambulance ... then hose out
the wagon ....
it has only happened to me once ....

[Initech]

18. WTF????